Online retailers were set to break one-day records for traffic and sales, as consumers hunted down Cyber Monday bargains.
By 2 p.m. ET, more than 300 retailing Web sites tracked by Internet monitoring firm Akamai were drawing 4.6 million visitors per minute – a three-year record for most traffic in a single day to retail Web sites…
ComScore Networks estimates that Cyber Monday sales will surpass $700 million, which would make it the heaviest online spending day on record…
It was a toy that knocked Nintendo’s Wii from the No. 1 spot this past weekend as the most-searched item on Yahoo! Wii surrendered its top spot to the Transformers Bumblebee toy…
Wii was the second most-searched item, followed by Apple’s iPhone, a Sharp Aquos 46-inch Plasma TV and the Nintendo Onyx DS Lite, which rounded out the top 5 hottest searches on Yahoo! Shopping heading into Cyber Monday.
May as well spend it all before the recession.
Why shop during the weekend when you can shop on your employers dime instead?
I remember a few years back when I was working IT for a midsized company. Our bandwidth went in the toilet the Monday after Thanksgiving. We were using a web-based Accounting program, so this was a direct assault on the productivity of those actually working.
I took it upon myself to start to block access to, among other places, Amazon, Ebay, Overstock, and a few other mega-on-line stores. You shoulda heard the howl that went up in that office. I became the bad guy because Accounting couldn’t do their job.
When a couple of the people complained to me, I told them to go over to Accounting to explain to them why they couldn’t do the job because YOU need to look at shoes from Nordstrom’s.
I didn’t make that many friends that day, except, of course, the people in accounting and the people who sign my paycheck, so there’s that.
Is it the original ass kicking Bumblebee toy or the crappola from the movie?
Records sales, sign of a recession in Dvorak Uncensored Bush bashing land, supposedly the home of the reality based community. Must be all Halliburton shareholders going online.
I got rid of all my credit cards..
If i need to buy online, I do it by proxy…
It’s the only way to fly!
But usually I buy local.
Well, according to the late news, sales on-line today was over 700 million. Lost time to companies was about 400 million….so that’s a 300 million boost.
The recession, high gas prices and the generally failing economy(according to the Jeremiah’s on this and other Liberal oriented sites)caused Black Friday sales to *only* rise by 8% over last year, to 10.5 Billion dollars spent.
The only people having a bad year are those who refuse to adapt(American car maker’s, Bank’s), those who were stupid enough to buy a house with a sub-prime loan that was adjustable(knowing full well they had no business getting a huge loan on their piss ant salaries), and those idiot’s who think they are trained stock brokers(buying and selling stock for quick profit, instead of solid, long term investment).
This country carries way to much debt, but thats because the boomer’s and their kids have never been told ***NO*** when they whine and cry and want something shiny. But the countries that hold our debt won’t sell us short because it would cost them trillions, so they will keep dealing with dollars.
A fool and his money….as the old saying goes. 🙂
I have to say something…
Last year and the YEAR before and the YEAR before, every Corp. on the TV and the business NEWS were ALL touting that THIS (That YEAR) would be the BIG year and EACH year has failed to bring in GREAT profits.
And then, at about the END of January to Feb., they CHANGE there minds…
People have CUT back a lot in the last five years.