cyber week

Cyber Monday: $49.7B spent online globally, Cyber ‘Week’ totalled $314.9B

The figures are now in for spend on Cyber Monday, the third big online spending day — alongside Thanksgiving and Black Friday — in the first, critical week of the holiday shopping season.  Overall, as many U.S. consumers returned to work after the long weekend, online shopping continued to power ahead spurred by big discounts […]

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Thanksgiving 2024: $33.6B spent online, 72% of that on mobile, says Salesforce

Thanksgiving weekend has long been seen as the traditional start of the most important sales period for retailers, and so far, the indication is that we’re in for a strong holiday season for e-commerce. Salesforce is tracking activity in real time and said that yesterday, Thanksgiving, generated $33.6 billion in sales online globally, up 6%.

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Early Thanksgiving online sales numbers are up 7% YoY to $15.6B, on par with pre-pandemic trends

Thanksgiving weekend has long been seen as the traditional start to the most important sales period for retailers, and so far, the indication is that we’re in for a strong holiday season for e-commerce. Salesforce is tracking activity in real time and has just put out its first figures for the day. It says that

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