Here's what I was talking about:

2008:

"Sales growth was anemic: Shopper Trak, a firm that follows mall traffic, reported that Black Friday retail sales totaled $10.6 billion, up 3% from a year earlier, compared with 7% growth for the same period in 2007."

2009:

"Sales on Black Friday itself climbed just 0.5 percent from 2008, but the $10.66 billion in sales represented the largest dollar amount ever spent on that day, according to ShopperTrak, a Chicago retail sales tracking firm."

Sounds like the most interesting news was not Black Friday-- but the fact that Sat and Sun were up substantially from last year, AND-- that Cybermonday was up bigtime.

Of course, I say "bigtime", but we're only talking 4,300,000 cyber shoppers PER MINUTE, spending a total of $887,000,000 (yes, almost a billion dollars).

In one day.

For the Thanksgiving holiday (Thursday through Monday), cybershoppers spent $2,600,000,000.00


-Russ H.