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Black Friday Shopping

It's show time. After weeks of pushing early deals, retailers in the United States and some other countries are promising bigger discounts on Black Friday, the sales event that still reigns as the unofficial kickoff of the holiday shopping season even if it's lost some luster. Department stores, shopping malls and merchants big and small see the day after Thanksgiving as a way to energise shoppers and to get them into physical stores at a time when many gift-seekers do the bulk of their browsing and buying online. Enough traditionalists must still be around, because Black Friday remains the biggest day of the year for retail foot traffic in the US, according to retail technology company Sensormatic Solutions. Black Friday is still an incredibly important day for retailers, Grant Gustafson, head of retail consulting and analytics at Sensormatic, said. It's important for them to be able to get shoppers into their store to show them that experience of what it's like to browse and to

Updated On: 29 Nov 2024 | 4:59 PM IST

Black Friday every year lies on a day following the festival of Thanksgiving, the traditional US holiday where people offer thanks over a delectable dinner with customary delights

Updated On: 24 Nov 2023 | 5:09 PM IST

The sale will have offers on global and Indian luxury and premium brands

Updated On: 21 Nov 2022 | 6:56 PM IST

US e-commerce giant cuts subscription fee for new exporters joining Global Selling programme

Updated On: 15 Nov 2022 | 6:00 PM IST

Commenced today, on November 11, the Garmin Black Friday sale will continue until November 30

Updated On: 11 Nov 2022 | 7:20 PM IST

The $9 billion Black Friday sale figure makes the event the second-largest online spending day in the US history (after 2019's Cyber Monday)

Updated On: 29 Nov 2020 | 11:23 AM IST

Black Friday marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Here's all you need to know about Black Friday sale

Updated On: 27 Nov 2020 | 7:46 AM IST

Black Friday will throw a lot of deals your way. These are the ones that are actually worth your time and money, writes Elissa Sanci

Updated On: 17 Jan 2020 | 7:56 PM IST

Shoppers also worried that tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on Chinese imports would make their holiday shopping more expensive

Updated On: 29 Nov 2019 | 9:59 PM IST

Record online sales were seen on Black Friday and Thanksgiving

Updated On: 27 Nov 2017 | 9:08 PM IST

Adobe Analytics forecast online Black Friday sales of $5 billion, which would be a record high. Online retailers will rake in an additional $6.6 billion on Cyber Monday, according to Adobe

Updated On: 26 Nov 2017 | 1:02 AM IST

About 250 people line up patiently at a Target Corp store in Manhattan before it opened at 6 a.m.

Updated On: 24 Nov 2017 | 7:51 PM IST