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Thanksgiving Weekend Sales, at Stores and Online, Slide 11 Percent - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/business/thanksgiving-weekend-sales-at-stores-and-online-slide-11-percent.html

Have Americans finally had enough of Black Friday madness?

Sales, both in stores and online, from Thanksgiving through the weekend were estimated to have dropped 11 percent, to $50.9 billion, from $57.4 billion last year, according to preliminary survey results released Sunday by the National Retail Federation. Sales fell despite many stores’ opening earlier than ever on Thanksgiving Day.

And though many retailers offered the same aggressive discounts online as they did in their stores, the web failed to attract more shoppers or spending over the four-day holiday weekend than it did last year, the group said. The average person who shopped over the weekend spent $159.55 at online retailers, down 10.2 percent from last year

Note que pour certains, ça ressemble à une révélation…

The results could show that “there are a significant number of Americans out there for whom the recession is not yet over,” said Matthew Shay, the president and chief executive [of the National Retail Federation].