Store traffic enjoyed the strongest growth in years, and online spending hit a record at $9.8 billion, as Black Friday got the holiday season off to a jolly start.

Retail stores on Black Friday saw their parking lots empty and lines in front of their stores nonexistent as shoppers now turn to finding deals through online shopping. Fox Business.

Black Friday spending in retail stores was muted this year in contrast to a more robust rise online, as bargain-hungry Americans skipped stores in favor of their phones and laptops, according to data.

So there is less of an urgency and an importance put on the store via Black Friday.” For Cyber Week — the five days from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday — Adobe expects $37.2 billion in online ...

Black Friday is evolving to retail irrelevance as retail “Black Friday” transcended from 8 AM Friday opening to trespass on the sacred, spiritual traditions of Thanksgiving to becoming an over ...

Black Friday, the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, ... Available stores: 89; Retail jobs by state: 91,051; The Dimond Center in Anchorage offers 89 stores to shop at, ...

Black Friday leaves Andrea Hernandez breathless. She’s worked the day after Thanksgiving at a mall shoe store in Los Angeles the last three years, spending her shift running back and forth ...

A retail scholar explains what drives consumers to behave badly on ... tries on duck waders at Cabella's in Hazelwood, Mo., on Black Friday, Nov. 25, 2016. (Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post ...

Poor Black Friday. The discount shopping bonanza's days are numbered. Retail analysts predict that visiting brick-and-mortar stores the day after Thanksgiving will vanish by 2043.