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发帖数: 1475 | 1 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc, eBay Inc and other e-commerce companies had
a
strong "Black Friday," but the industry's growth rate lagged last year's
surge in online buying on the traditional first day of the holiday
shopping
season.
Online shopping jumped 24.3 percent on Black Friday, the day after
Thanksgiving, versus the same period a year earlier, IBM Benchmark,
which
tracks transactions on websites of 500 retailers, said on Saturday.
IBM was expecting growth of about 15 percent. Higher-than-expected
online
buying was partly driven by increased use of mobile devices, it said.
Some of the best-performing retailers also did a good job informing
consumers about online promotions ahead of the crucial post-Thanksgiving
shopping day, said John Squire, chief strategy officer at IBM Smarter
Commerce.
Mercent, a company founded in 2005 which helps retailers sell through e-
commerce channels including Amazon, eBay and Google Inc's Internet
search
engine, reported a 23-percent jump in Black Friday same-store sales by
clients.
"E-commerce continues to grow on an absolute basis and take additional
market share from (traditional) bricks and mortar retailers," said Eric
Best
, chief executive of Mercent and a former Amazon executive.
Best expects a "huge" Cyber Monday - which this year falls on November
28 -
but he warned that this doesn't mean the whole holiday season will be
strong.
Cyber Monday is the first work day after Thanksgiving, when workers
often
use office computers to shop online. Last year, over $1 billion was
spent on
Cyber Monday, making it the heaviest online shopping day in history,
according to ComScore.
"Holiday shopping is becoming more front-loaded around Black Friday and
Cyber Monday," Mercent's Best said. "All of this is great news, but it's
still early in this 45-day shopping season."
WEATHER EFFECT
Last year, Mercent clients saw same-store sales growth of 30 percent on
Black Friday. Best said slower growth this year may have been caused by
better weather.
"The weather was really good this year, which can have an effect on the
amount of screen time," Best added. "People were outside shopping
offline or
they weren't shopping at all."
Amazon saw some of the strongest growth again this year, according to
ChannelAdvisor, which helps merchants sell on websites run by Amazon,
eBay
and other e-commerce companies.
ChannelAdvisor clients saw same-store sales via Amazon jump 49.8 percent
on
Black Friday, versus a year earlier.
Traditional retailers offered Black Friday deals earlier this year, but
Amazon aggressively matched this strategy by running Black Friday
promotions
online starting on November 21, according to Scot Wingo, chief
executive of
ChannelAdvisor.
Still, on Black Friday in 2010, ChannelAdvisor clients saw same-store
sales
growth of about 80 percent via Amazon, Wingo noted.
Sellers on eBay generated same-store sales growth of 15.1 percent on
Black
Friday this year, down from 15.5 percent year-over-year growth in 2010,
he
added.
MOBILE SHOPPING SURGES
Mobile shopping surged on Black Friday but remained a relatively small
part
of overall online commerce.
EBay said U.S. shoppers bought almost two and a half times as many items
via
mobile devices this past Black Friday compared to 2010.
PayPal, eBay's online payments business, saw a six-fold increase in
global
mobile transaction volume on Black Friday, versus the same day last
year.
More than 14 percent of Black Friday traffic on retail websites came
from
mobile devices, up from 5.6 percent a year ago, according to IBM.
eBay said it offered an XBOX 360 250GB Kinect gaming system from
Microsoft
for $259.99 the evening before Black Friday that sold out in 20 minutes
- at
a rate of 75 units per minute.
Best sellers on Amazon.com on Black Friday included the company's Kindle
Fire tablet computer, a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-TX10 Waterproof Digital
Camera
and a Mr. Coffee Single Serve coffee machine powered by Keurig,
according to
an Amazon spokeswoman. | k********n
发帖数: 18523 | 2 Amazon saw some of the strongest growth again this year, according to
ChannelAdvisor, which helps merchants sell on websites run by Amazon, eBay
and other e-commerce companies.
ChannelAdvisor clients saw same-store sales via Amazon jump 49.8 percent on
Black Friday, versus a year earlier. | k********n
发帖数: 18523 | 3 啥也别说了
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希望不是反指
哈哈哈 | w*w
发帖数: 546 | 4 什么新闻都不及欧洲一点点芝麻小事爆出
星期一又会来个坏消息？ | k********n
发帖数: 18523 | | w*w
发帖数: 546 | 6 可以压大了？
我每次都压大
每次都输
星期一希望不会输了 | K********g
发帖数: 9389 | 7 我靠，我昨天刚割肉了，这是啥世道哦。
【在 k********n 的大作中提到】
: 啥也别说了
: 下周一亚麻暴批验
: 希望不是反指
: 哈哈哈
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