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Thanksgiving and Black Friday online sales up 18%

Thanksgiving and Black Friday online sales set a new record in 2015: $4.47 billion, up 18 percent over last year. More specifically, $1.73 billion was spent on Thanksgiving and $2.74 billion was spent online on Black Friday, further showing how the one-day shopping event has become a two-day affair.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/28/a...les-up-18-ios-numbers-almost-triple-androids/

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Black Friday was down 10% so it's pretty much a wash.

 

[3838373]

Black Friday store sales fall as Americans buy more online
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/black...ll-americans-buy-more-185425795--finance.html

 

[oldngray]

Most of the Black Friday sales weren't very good.

 

[Purplepackage]

Black Friday was down 10% so it's pretty much a wash.

I'm pretty sure the article says sales were up, who cares if in store sales were down that has no effect on shipping

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Most of the Black Friday sales weren't very good.

I disagree:

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

I see many 12 hour days in the near future...

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

All of the days in my future are 24 hours long.

 

[AKCoverMan]

Yeah in store volume not so hot but online grew. And I bet many key accounts (i.e. Amazon) were probably shipping all weekend and we were moving volume.

Our preload is starting much earlier than usual tomorrow morning.

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

All of the days in my future are 24 hours long.

 

[BSWALKS]

Our preload is starting 3 1/2 hours early. 12am

 

[jaker]

Most of the Black Friday sales weren't very good.

I thought it was just me , I told the wife nothing is worth it this year

Last year my son stood in line for 5 hours to get a tv for 200 bucks , this year the same tv is 259

 

[ViewAskew]

Ours at 2am

 

[jaker]

I disagree:

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• Penny's used to be my favorite store to buy clothes from , but since they changed a little over a year ago nothing anymore

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

• Penny's used to be my favorite store to buy clothes from , but since they changed a little over a year ago nothing anymore

My son needed clothes for work. Hard to pass up the savings.

 

[jaker]

My son needed clothes for work. Hard to pass up the savings.

I don't blame you , I wish I could still shop there

I still take my wife shopping there

 

[ManInBrown]

Black Friday was down 10% so it's pretty much a wash.

Is there any topic, you aren't well versed in? JFC you're annoying

 

[Harry Manback]

Black Friday was a disaster in my center.

My route was cut and my "route neighbors" got 15 and 17.5 hour dispatches.

Obviously, a fair amount of that work found it's way back to the building and will go back out tomorrow.

The whole idea behind forcing us to work on the holiday is, to flush the system of volume in preparation of the massive influx of coming volume.

IE and their masters couldn't even get that right.

Couple that with DIAD software "enhancements" that, won't allow us to release Christmas presents to residences we used to d/r for decades before and what you end up with is; a debacle to end all debacles.

The company "took it on the chin" during Peak 2013. They're gonna "take it up the..." this year.

Which is frightening because, good Teamsters and lowlife scabs will suffer for the next 12 months.

 

[ManInBrown]

My two loop partners and I, opted to not work Black Friday. Tomorrow should be FUN

 

[Harry Manback]

My two loop partners and I, opted to not work Black Friday. Tomorrow should be FUN

As much fun as, a lobotomy.