Black Friday benefits from online shopping and Thanksgiving Day sales

Festive shoppers in the US spent 11.2 billion US dollars across the country on Black Friday. That is down 1.8 per cent on last year. Still the figures hint at a change in shopping habits with many stores offering cut-price bargains on Thanksgiving Day itself and online purchases were also up. Overall the retail trade expressed satisfaction with weight of sales, including Terry Lundgren, Macy’s CEO. “They understand what that value means because they have all the research availab