Black Friday is golden for retailers
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The nation's retailers had a strong start to the holiday shopping season, according to results announced Saturday by a national research group that tracks sales at mall-based stores. One big exception was Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which said it expects to report same-store sales in November below its already lackluster forecast.
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Despite the generally bad news thus far from many US retailers about this holiday season's sales, the nation's largest gaming retailer has posted stellar results.
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This year's "Black Friday" could be the strongest opening to the holiday shopping season in years, if the droves of American eager to exploit early-bird specials are any guide.
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Retailers hailed a âfantasticâ last-minute Christmas shopping rush tonight amid predictions of the dayâs sales topping the Â£1 billion mark.
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U.S. retail consumers could begin to see great deals on PC  purchases as the market gets more competitive.
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By Anthony Cronin, The Day, New London, Conn.  Dec. 10--First, there was Black Friday. Then there was Cyber Monday. Two  big shopping days -- one for stores occupying ground space and the other for  stores occupying cyberspace.
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Shoppers swarmed the nation's malls and stores on Friday, even before the sun rose, to grab early bird deals on hot items like flat-screen TVs and DVD players as the holiday shopping season officially began.
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If you&#39;re looking for holiday cheer in the somewhat somber retail sector, try Best Buy (BBY:NYSE - news - research). The Minnesota-based electronics retailer Wednesday posted a sharply higher third-quarter
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E-tailers have laggards and penny-pinchers to thank for last week&#39;s brisk sales, which grew 25 percent over the comparable period last year, according to comScore.Procrastinators and deal-seekers helped create a &quot;flurry&quot; of online spending last week in the U.S., keeping retail e-sales strong, comScore said Sunday.Between Nov. 1 and Dec. 21 -- the first 51 days of the holiday season -- U.S. shoppers have spent $26.3 billion online, up 19 percent compared with the corresponding period last year.So far, the heaviest online shopping day this season was Dec. 10, the so-called &quot;Green Monday,&quot; a term coined by eBay for the second Monday in December, which the vendor has identified as particularly heavy e-sales day. U.S. shoppers spent $881 million that day, up 33 percent from the corresponding day in 2006.By contrast, Cyber Monday, the first workday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., ranks as this holiday season&#39;s ninth heaviest online shopping day, with $733 million in sales. Cyber Monday is considered the day when holiday online shopping kicks into high gear.Overall, comScore expects this year&#39;s holiday season to generate about $29.5 billion in online spending, which would represent a 20 percent increase from the same period in 2006.
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By Lisa Baertlein and Emily Chasan SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - U.S. online shoppers, who set spending and traffic records on Thanksgiving Day and the "Black Friday" that followed, were expected to break new ground again as they returned to work on what some are calling "Blue Monday."
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It's shaping up to be a very  merry holiday season for online retailers.
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The success of gift cards has extended the holiday shopping season -- but there's a hitch for retailers.
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Amid the music industry's 10-week sales spiral, merchants have a new concern: Aggressive pricing on high-profile releases is threatening to turn Black Friday -- retailers' highly profitable day after Thanksgiving -- into a red one for stores devoted to music.
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Cyber Monday may be a joke, but when it comes to the Web, so is Black Friday.
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Retailers got what they wanted over the Thanksgiving weekend &#151; a strong start to the 2006 holiday shopping season as consumers crowded stores in search of huge discounts on flat-screen TVs and other hot merchandise.
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Shoppers showed a bit of cheer at the cash registers in November, boosting sales at the nation&#39;s retailers by 0.1 percent. The newest snapshot of consumers&#39; buying appetite, issued
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It's beginning to look a lot like  Christmas on Wall Street: Retail stocks have been glowing for  more than a month.