Shoppers continue visiting stores after Black Friday deals begin earlier this year

Based on a Market Track study of holiday circulars, Walmart is offering an average discount of 39 percent, compared with 35 percent previous year.

“I don’t think it is universally popular”.

“It used to be very busy but for the past two years the mornings are not very insane”, said Gina Reynolds, a 39-year old housewife, shopping at a Macy’s store in the Water Tower Place Mall in Chicago.

Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren tells The Associated Press that clothing sales have been good, with sportswear, dresses and even social occasion fashions doing well.

Target is continuing to push Cartwheel, which now has 30 million users, by offering app users an additional 15 percent off when shopping with its mobile companion while in-store on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

In 2015, about 151 million shoppers were in stores and online over the Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend.

Shoppers will spend an estimated 51 percent of their holiday budgets this weekend via e-commerce, according to a survey by consulting firm Deloitte.

Some noted that shoppers seemed eager to hit stores on Thanksgiving evening. Saturday can offer a welcome change for shoppers exhausted from navigating big box stores on Black Friday, co-owner Casey Simmons said. Singewald said she was merely the vehicle – “and sometimes the credit card” – as her daughters hunted for deals and worked on their shopping lists. And so no one misses out ever, the retailer says it will offer its Cyber Monday deals in its brick-and-mortar stores. “Consumers were clearly out to buy”.

And although the town centres were much busier than usual, Ipswich Central chief executive Paul Clement said it is not a day all retails love. “Consumers were clearly out to buy”, Cohen said. Comparatively, only 44 percent of people said they’d be shopping on Black Friday.

Leah Olson says she’s planning to stick to her annual Christmas shopping budget of $300 to $400. “They’ve done a lot of hyping up through digital advertising and promotions”.

A considerably excellent steep discount price on a big screen size Phillips 4K Ultra HD Smart TV from a reliably big name brand in the home appliance industry is impossible to snub, and Walmart’s wristband will surely secures the deal.

It’s going to be an exciting and insane day, say retail workers, some of whom started shifts on Thanksgiving Day.

A research note by Drexel Hamilton said Apple remains one of the best-positioned tech companies to benefit from spending trends this holiday season with a well-received iPhone 7/7 Plus, a new Apple Watch and a new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.

“Black Friday started out as a single day of discounting, which then became a weekend and now spans an entire week, during which time we anticipate that a high volume of pre-Christmas sales will be made”, said IMRG’s managing director, Justin Opie.

Some 60 percent of Wal-Mart’s online orders were being placed via mobile phone, the company said.

In retail stores also, mobiles drove the majority of retail sites visits at 56 per cent – most of that (47 per cent) was from smartphones, as opposed to tablets (nine per cent). Other hot sellers include the Echo Dot, a compact version of Alexa, and the Amazon Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote.