Forbes (November 27)
“It’s an omnichannel holiday!” This Black Friday weekend, Americans re-embraced “in-person shopping…returning to stores and malls in big numbers.” That did not, however, lessen their “love affair with online shopping.” On Black Friday, a “record $9.12 billion was spent online,” up more than 2% since 2021.
Tags: $9.12 billion, Black Friday, Holiday, In-person shopping, Malls, Omnichannel, Online shopping, Record, Stores, U.S.
Time (December 18)
Online shopping may save individual shoppers from going out in the traffic, but overall it’s compounding traffic woes. “Our city streets and parking resources are being swamped by this new retail reality. Cities simply are not designed to handle the daily tidal wave of deliveries produced by our have-it-now online economy.”
Tags: Deliveries, Online economy, Online shopping, Parking, Reality, Retail, Streets, Swamped, Traffic
