Comments on: Black Friday not terrible; Christmas not doomed?

By: edhardy622

edhardy622 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:13:34 +0000

British law student sues Abercrombie-Fitch for disability discrimination.
http://www.abercrombieshop.us

By: ZZ

ZZ — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:18:41 +0000

I would think that in a down year more peopletake advantage of low prices while not buying later on.

On the quantitative side, there are 4 less days in the holiday shopping season this year (27 vs 31), i.e. to make the same revenue, you need to sell ~15% more every day (assuming that everybody shops for Christmas after Thanksgiving, which is not necessarily true).

Finally, the CPI index (inflation) was 3.7%, so in real terms, sales were down circa 2.7% (brick and mortar sales were up 3%, which makes it ~0.7% down)

By: Anthony Ha

Anthony Ha — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:30:10 +0000

Uh, what?

By: lastime

lastime — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:24:08 +0000

One more time.

By: Nuts

Nuts — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:21:36 +0000

Oops. Forgot my grav.

By: Nuts

Nuts — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:20:20 +0000

Shop till you drop, baby.

Or you wear your keyboard out.