Tuesday, November 20, 2012

More technical playing this Black Friday

The tension between a new height this year's Thanksgiving Day as a consumer should be cautious to open their wallets, open their digital devices and browse the store aisle supporting, and earlier, than the night of Thanksgiving doorbuster sales and prices The match offer strength and retailers ascribed.

The behavior of small businesses, also used in applications and technology tools to attract shoppers conscience new supply to support local merchants, in some cases, the local procurement of commodities, to kick off the holiday shopping season.

Traditional gifts endure, but doorbuster sales and sweater, electronic games, and a colorful scarf.

headquartered in New York, researchers, shopping anthropologist and author of "I know the heart of woman - women shopping scientific", said: "What is disturbing, is one of the best American holiday and the most authentic, businesses are being eroded. "

The Underhill accused "some anxiety" about marginal people distracted presidential election and harsh weather, including hurricanes Sandy retailers. This year also marks the first Thanksgiving in the past five years.

"Retailers are able to better the expectations and needs of this festival is exaggerated," he said.

Sears, Kmart, Toys R Us and Wal-Mart and other retailers in the Thanksgiving night 20:00, will open, and the target company will be open from 21:00

The holiday shopping season Ironically, the United States too much shopping - experts say it is "stored" - when they boast that they spend each time they shop. Cultural phenomenon, not only reflects the product commercialization and coveted, they can not afford to buy the goods, Underhill said.

At the same time, most of them female consumers are turning back to the timeless style and value, and to reduce the purchase of better products, Underhill said.

While retailers have started selling earlier, fewer shoppers.

The National Retail Federation, said last year's Black Friday weekend, a decrease of 3.3% from 152 billion to 147 million people plan to shop, plan to do so.

The survey shows that 71 million, said they will be shopping Black Friday, and another 760,000 said they would wait to see what retailers in the shop that weekend, the National Retail Federation reports.

Federal predicted average shopping will cost $ 749.51, gifts, decorations, greeting cards and other items, the year-on-year increase of 1.2% from the same period last year.

The Federation expects overall in November and December holiday consumption will grow by 4.1%, to $ 58.61 billion from last year.

Technology will play an increasingly important role, Shopping online price comparison shop, the price tag on their mobile devices, with the ipad sales staff armed to help consumers avoid the lines, or credit card through their mobile devices payment system to make a quick exit.

The National Retail Federation survey shows that more consumers than ever will use smart phones to compare prices. More than half (52.9%), compared with 52.6% in the same period last year, smartphone users will do so. Tablet owners, 64.1% of people will use their devices to research and purchase holiday gifts, decorations, food and other items, declined slightly, from 70.5% in the same period last year.

Shoppers will set up two new high point online shopping, 51.8% plan to online shopping, a year-on-year growth of 46.7%, the average person in the last year to do their holiday shopping online, 38.8%, with 36% in the same period last year.

Chicago shoppers online shopping in the store and their smartphone plans spend $ 1,650 this holiday season, or more than 79% of those who shop at the store, according to the Deloitte survey.

The IBISWorld Company is expected to be spent for Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday jump Cyber ​​Monday reached a record $ 15 billion in online revenue, a year-on-year growth of 21.4% from the same period last year.

Shoppers are expected to promote online sales totaled $ 586 billion, accounting for 16% of overall sales this holiday, according to Forrester Research study.

Retailers target consumers spend online shopping and internal store. About one-third of the retailers told Shop.org eH oliday investigation, they will promote their in-store Black Friday deals with mobile alarm, a year-on-year growth of 18.4% intend to do so last year, significantly. The survey results show that 10 years, eight, or 80.6%, will use Facebook, to remind consumers of in-store transactions, from 73.7% last year.

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