Tag Archives: Black Friday

A MERRY MULTICHANNEL HOLIDAY

December 11, 2012 – 2:36 pm

by Nissa Hanna It’s two weeks until the gift wrap comes off, and the holiday-shopping kickoffs have been closely watched by retailers and analysts who continue to proclaim that Cyber Monday (or Cyber Any Day) is crashing the Black Friday party. For the first time, online sales on Black Friday surpassed $1 billion, according to […]

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Sam’s Club bucks Black Friday frenzy with later start time, free coffee

November 27, 2012 – 2:31 pm

by Cree McCree WHAT’S HAPPENING Black Friday’s inexorable march backward into ever-earlier start times for door-busting sales threatened to lure shoppers to the mall before the turkey was even carved. Now, thankfully, sanity has prevailed, at least at Sam’s Club. Bucking the tide of its retail rivals, Sam’s will open for business on Black Friday […]

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SEASONAL SAVVY

January 10, 2012 – 12:13 pm

by Nissa Hanna It’s the beginning of a new year, and the numbers are rolling in for the still-warm holiday shopping season. The results for retailers: Black Friday weekend didn’t disappoint, with record-setting sales and an increase of 16% in total spending from 2010. But then … commerce crickets. Consumers, perhaps taking a page from […]

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MEAT Podcast, Episode 4: News, Black Friday and cutting the tech cord for health and wellness

December 1, 2011 – 11:18 am

by Mike Garrison, Andrew Hawn, Katie Elfering, Robert van Alstyne and Stefania Revelli Media, Entertainment and Technology Strategists rant on the news of the week.  Tune in for opinions on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and our new trend around the intersection of health and technology. To listen to the podcast, click here.

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NOT JUST ANOTHER MANIC MONDAY

December 2, 2010 – 2:23 pm

by Kelly Stevens What a week! The U.K. has been experiencing the earliest widespread snowfall since 1993, with Monday touted as the coldest November day for 100 years (DailyMirror.co.uk, 29 November 2010). Road conditions were treacherous all over the nation, keeping people at home. Meanwhile, London was also hit with a tube strike: 80 stations […]

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MERRIER MOUSE-CLICKING

November 30, 2010 – 3:37 pm

by Nissa Hanna Did you brave the Black Friday crowds this past weekend? If you’re like the majority of IconoCommunitiesSM participants (our online network of consumers), you already have some of your shopping in the bag. When we polled the panel in September, 64% told us that they start purchasing presents before Black Friday, and […]

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THE DOG DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

August 3, 2010 – 1:30 pm

by Tim Henderson Thanks to the Lenox “12 Days of Christmas in July” promo, I recently nabbed my first 2010 stocking stuffer — with free shipping. Lenox wasn’t the only jolly elf hawking holiday wares. From the much-discussed Target, Sears, Kmart and Toys R Us campaigns to the debuts of Tiffany’s holiday jewelry line and […]

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PLAY WITH THE BOX

January 12, 2010 – 1:30 pm

by Lisa Pierce This Christmas, I was a grandma on a mission, determined to get the best price on those gifts that would make my little goobers squeal with delight. After some intense Internet shopping (thank you, CouponCabin.com) and a couple trips to the stores (including an early stint on Black Friday, something I vowed […]

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OF NOTE: Impatience; flu protection; Black Friday and Cyber Monday; unemployment (12.4.09)

December 4, 2009 – 3:58 pm

-From Twitter to loading streaming video — Consumers are craving status updates. A new progress-bar stoplight concept torques waiting at a red light. -Safety from swine flu in style, this hypercolor face mask changes color when the wearer’s temperature spikes. [Sairica Rose] -For greener holiday shopping, which is better: Driving to the store on Black […]

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CHRISTMAS CREEP

December 1, 2009 – 10:53 am

by Hans Eisenbeis The last place you’ll find me on the day after Thanksgiving is the mall. I understand why retailers want to jump-start holiday spending with deep discounts and boughs of holly, but I’m not that into competitive shopping. So you’d think I’d be happy with “Christmas Creep,” the slowly expanding holiday season that […]

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Savvy holiday shoppers seek online deals

December 15, 2008 – 12:14 pm

by Katie Elfering You think online holiday shopping is all about Cyber Monday? Not even. Sure, the Monday after Thanksgiving gets all the attention, but it’s actually the Monday a couple weeks later when consumers really shell out the bucks. December 10th, 2007 was actually the biggest day for online sales ever (dubbed Green Monday […]

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Podcast: Putting the Black Back into Black Friday

December 3, 2008 – 2:35 pm

Download our weekly economic podcast with Chris Keating, Derek Stubbs and Hans Eisenbeis here: Putting the Black Back into Black Friday

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Fear and Clothing on the Black Friday Floors

December 3, 2008 – 8:42 am

by Alex Smith The last place I would normally spend my post-Thanksgiving Friday is the mall, least of all the Twin Cities’ Mall of America, that big, be-roller-coastered bastion of magnet stores and pushy kiosk workers. But in the name of observational research, I sucked it up and hit the Black Friday scene to scope […]

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