Store traffic enjoyed the strongest growth in years, and online spending hit a record at $9.8 billion, as Black Friday got the holiday season off to a jolly start.

Enough traditionalists must still be around, because Black Friday remains the biggest day of the year for retail foot traffic in the U.S., according to retail technology company Sensormatic Solutions.

Black Friday spending in retail stores was muted this year in contrast to a more robust rise online, as bargain-hungry Americans skipped stores in favor of their phones and laptops, according to data.

We turned to two retail experts to give us all of their predictions and shopping trends for Black Friday 2022. From inflation to shopping online, here's the scoop.

The term "Black Friday" is several generations old, but it wasn't always associated with the day-after-Thanksgiving retail frenzy that we know today. A gold market crash of September 1869, for ...

Early reports on Friday suggest the shopping holiday was off to a slower-than-normal start, but retail investors are hopeful that sales will pick up over the weekend ahead of Cyber Monday next week.

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Black Friday still reigns supreme, the survey found, with 131.7 million people (72%), reporting plans to do shopping that day. That's followed by Cyber Monday, when 39% of respondents, or 72.3 ...