An easy way to see what happened in tha past years is to use google trends, which I did. You can see what I’ve found by looking at the picture below:

It’s pretty obvious that the crysis is affecting Black Friday Sales, but at a less level than how it affects daily online sales. Now the tricky part is to guess how sales will go this year. My take on this is that if the crysis begins to end sales will go up a notch, but if not expect another 20-30 % decrease during Black Friday.

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In time thing got blurry and holiday season is now all about shopping. In US there’s Black Friday, the first Friday after Thanksgiving that marks the beginning of the holiday season, not an official holiday, but a day when people get the day off to get some shopping done for family and friends.

Black Friday is the day shops have limited offers with massive discounts and combo packages and it’s understandable why it became a special day in shoppers hears. Even with this years financial crisis that hit US and other countries there will be a shopping spree during Black Friday, as people managed to save money during last months, in expectation for e massive price drop for their favourite items.

I’m also chasing for Black Friday sales offers which apparently started to pop in shops like Amazon and Best Buy. What will you be doing during Black Friday? Shopping or working?

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