According to the calculations of the National Retail Federation last year over 200 million consumers spent some $45 Billion on Black Friday. This year, eMarketer predicts that $47 Billion to be spent online during the holiday season in the U.S. alone. And historically, it so happens that holiday-related sales growth picks up right around the [...]

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Geno on December 23rd, 2009

Not sure how many of you are following @GoogleRetail on Twitter, and saw their below tweet, and the post it is linked to, but I believe it is an extremely important one to miss: The blog post that appeared on Google Retail Blog earlier this month (and the one that they’re linking to from the [...]

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Geno on December 21st, 2009

The affiliate program support team at Target has tweeted: So I’ve decided to dig deeper into it. Target seems to refer to the National Retail Federation’s data quoted by Reuters. On Wednesday (December 16, 2009) in their U.S. consumers fall behind in holiday shopping article Reuters reported: Consumers on average had completed 46.7 percent of [...]

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