( ) -q-22- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “and early offers.” The holiday shopping season is about to reach full speed with Black Friday, which kicks off the post-Thanksgiving retail rush later this week. [CutID: <Cuts> BLACK-FRIDAY-house-q-TUEam.mp3 Time: 22s Title: BLACK-FRIDAY-house-q-TUEam Out-cue: and early offers] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Whether visiting stores or clicking on […]
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What Black Friday’s history tells us about holiday shopping in 2024
( ) -q-22- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “and early offers.”
The holiday shopping season is about to reach full speed with Black Friday, which kicks off the post-Thanksgiving retail rush later this week.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Whether visiting stores or clicking on countless emails promising huge savings, tens of millions of U.S. shoppers are expected to spend money on Black Friday itself this year.
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VERBATIM: The annual sales event no longer creates the midnight mall crowds or doorbuster mayhem of recent decades. That’s due in large part due to the ease of online shopping and habits forged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hoping to entice equivocating consumers, retailers already have spent weeks bombarding customers with ads and early offers.