Cyber Monday Sales Forecast
After Black Friday comes Cyber Monday 2009. Is it more virtual than real?
Don't worry about missing that hyped-up Cyber Monday. You've still got lots of opportunity to do your online shopping before that big gift-giving day. In fact, reports the Christian Science Monitor, online holiday-season sales typically peak after the first week of December. So relax and enjoy your first day back at work after the hyped up Black Friday.
"First Black Friday, then Cyber Monday. Is all the media hoopla about frantic, sales-hungry shoppers at malls and at their desktops during an extended Thanksgiving weekend an accurate portrayal of consumers' holiday-shopping behavior? Or is it a reflection of what retailers wish were the case?To be sure, retailers have expanded the weekend selling rush through so-called Cyber Monday, just as they have dialed back Black Friday store hours a bit further each year, now encroaching onto Thanksgiving night. The National Retail Federation, a trade organization representing 1.6 million retailers, says Monday is the kickoff to the online shopping season and a day when online sales spike..."
