What the Trend ShowsWhat the Trend Shows
- Online Black Friday sales have more than doubled since 2017 (from ~ $5 bn to $11.8 bn in 2025).
- Growth has been fairly steady recently — both 2024 and 2025 saw nearly double-digit increases (≈ 10.2% and 9.1% respectively).
- The gap between in-store shopping and online spending continues to widen: online sales increasingly dominate the Black Friday landscape.
- Black Friday 2024 online sales hit $10.8 billion, a 10.2% increase from 2023.
- Overall holiday season sale is expected to surpass $1 trillion in 2025.
- Global Black Friday spending reached $74.4 billion, up 5% from last year.
- The spendings are expected to reach $253.4 billion during Black Friday 2025.
- Over 87.3 million people shopped online, while 81.7 million visited stores on Black Friday.
- Mobile shopping made up 69% of purchases worldwide.
- “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) added $686.3 million to online sales, growing 8.8% year-over-year.
- Retailers using AI chatbots saw a 9% boost in sales conversions
I bought nothing online yesterday. Bought a couple presents in store but not much. Spent around 100 bucks.
Oh you're not American afaik, so no surprises. Still you're in the big bracket of Holiday season buyers with 'Never Again' for ~Stacker_Sports!
And for me the shopping has become endless with back to back marriages in th family. It will be my cousins wedding tomorrow and being the eldest brother/cousin among my joint family my one foot is always in market for about 2 months now, if ar home then also shopping online for someone something.
We love to shop!
Looks like You guys wanna shop for the months if not for the years just in a single day! Do they only offer Sale on Black Friday?
It’s sales all the time haha just people getting their gifts for Christmas
Ah okk. It's all hype then like we have on Diwali festival sale.
I was thinking about getting a garmin watch, might still pull the trigger
I'm sorry I don't like wearing watches. But looking upon Garmin, the prices have just blown my mind. Are they really worth the price tags?
I was looking at the one for 250 cuckbucks https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/1611937/
I see that's on Sale and for India they have nothing on sale as of now
...Inflation taken into account?
Right? Taking into account that the US Dollar Index has fallen some 6 % during the last twelve months, and using that for correction, this year's number aligns pretty well with last year's. CPI is however only 3% up. Another interesting question is: Who is actually spending? As far as I've gathered, the upper classes are responsible for an increasing chunk of American spending. Meaning that "spending" increasingly means that money is mostly shuffled around amongst those that have a lot of it.
Stop spending, consumerism trap ;)
Meh.