Tag: black friday
Death of the desktop? Tech-savvy Brits shun desktop PCs and DVD players for smart devices
British shoppers are turning away from desktop PCs British shoppers are shunning desktop PCs and DVD players in favour of smart televisions and smart watches, according to figures from regulator Ofcom. Less than a third of homes now have a desktop PC, with consumers increasingly turning to smart technology, according…
Nine in 10 Black Friday ‘deals’ cheaper other times of year, Which? reveals
(Yui Mok/PA) A Which? investigation reveals that nearly nine in 10 of last year’s Black Friday ‘deals’ were cheaper or the same price at other times of the year, as it warns shoppers to do their research before hitting the sales. Which? tracked the prices of 94 popular products, including TVs,…
Black Friday set to be worth £10.4bn in the UK in 2018, says GlobalData
Black Friday sales are forecast to grow faster than the UK retail market in Q4 2018, as the promotional period draws in spend from before and after the event. Says Zoe Mills, Retail Analyst at GlobalData: “Spend during the Black Friday period accounted for 10.5% of Q4 spend. Growth will continue to slow year-on-year given the…
Forget Black Friday – here are five life-savers for your existing gadgets
Just in case you hadn't realised (where have you been?) it's Black Friday this week and for many people the lure of investing in shiny new cut price gadgets is sure to be overwhelming (it's also sure to go on beyond Friday and into next week too). But, even if you have new gadget lust,…
Black Friday’s best year ever, reckons HookLogic
It may have started as a US import, but it seems that the Brits are finally embracing the Christmas shopping phenomenon. Black Friday 2016 saw more shoppers than ever before make purchases on major retail sites according to insights from performance marketing company HookLogic. Black Friday shoppers and purchasers were up 13.9% and 11.9% respectively,…
Yes it’s Cyber Monday. Currys PC World offers deals on JVC and LG TVs
This 32inch JVC LED TV is now just £119 The Christmas shopping season continues. Hot on the heels of the imported Black Friday bonanza comes Cyber Monday - another marketing invention, this one supposed to represent the biggest day of the year for online sales. Like most retailers, Currys PC World…
Currys PC World reports Black Friday sales up 40% on last year
Seems that Black Friday is working for some electrical retailers (what you mean it's Black Friday today, you should've mentioned it!). At least it seems to be working well for Currys PC World which his reporting its highest ever number of orders, up 40% on 2015, with over half a million visitors to the website pre-6am…
Xmas 2016: Top 10 tablets for kids and adults under £100
Looking for a cheap tablet this Xmas? Don't want to spend a fortune on the Apple iPad. Then you really have two options - either get an Amazon or get an Android tablet (there are also Windows tablets of course, but most of these like the Surface Pro 4 are hybrid devices which can also…
Smartphone spending fuels highest ever monthly online retail sales growth
Strong Black Friday sales help boost November online spend 40% month-on-month Sales made via a smartphone grow 97% year-on-year A record 32% of all m-retail sales were made from a smartphone in November Multichannel retailers record just a 4% YoY increase in sales, compared with online-only retailers at 24% The latest figures from the IMRG…
The Digest: FBI starts probe into Sony hack… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Sony Pictures calls out big guns to investigate hacking | BetaWired "Sony Pictures Entertainment has called out the big guns to investigate the hacking that has locked countless employees out of their networks, relying on FireEye’s Mandiant incident response team to clean house. Meanwhile, another security breach at Sony Pictures – though perhaps…
