Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4 at 2:00 am PT
Groupon and the other daily deal providers saw sales tank during the week of Thanksgiving, unlike traditional retailers, which reported robust sales surrounding the holidays.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 2 at 6:00 am PT
Here are some of the best retail spots of the holiday season, the ones that motivated throngs of people to shop and spend record amounts online.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 27, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
This year, even more people shopped online on Christmas Day, fueled perhaps by finding change in the couch cushions — or, more likely, receiving gift cards in their stockings.
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Miguel Bustillo, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on December 24, 2011 at 7:06 am PT
Best Buy Co. is scrambling to stem the public-relations damage after it was forced to tell some customers in recent days that it couldn’t deliver the merchandise they ordered online last month.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 22, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Nintendo is seeing some of its biggest consumer demand this year in the weeks leading up to the holiday, resulting in record sales of its Wii, the 3DS and games, too.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 5, 2011 at 8:49 am PT
This holiday season is easily breaking records for online shopping. So far, three days have already eclipsed the $1 billion mark, representing three of the four heaviest days in U.S. history.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 1, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
The three major videogame consoles are all nearing the end of their life cycles. But that didn’t stop shoppers from buying — and in some cases fighting over — the hardware.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 28, 2011 at 1:31 pm PT
Amazon, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target are all obvious candidates for heavy Black Friday traffic online, but right up there with the big-box stores is Apple.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on November 28, 2011 at 11:13 am PT
Seems those iPad concerns were a bit overblown.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Commerce on November 28, 2011 at 3:21 am PT
Amazon says it sold a lot of Kindle tablets on Friday — four times as many as the company did on Black Friday 2010, when it didn’t offer Kindle models like the Fire and the Touch. If you’re expecting more detail from Amazon on unit sales, then you’ve never read an Amazon press release before.
