Matt Baldwin Kegan Sims Shane Mcartney

Big Bargains or Big Headaches??

Results  Sales change Internet % Specialty retailers +15.2% Discount Stores +11.1% Department Stores -0.3%

Results  Sales Increase, but shoppers spend less  147 million customers visited stores (up 4.8% from last year)  Shoppers spent 3.5% less per person ($347 per person)

Results  Overall Business 55% of responding companies report being up 5% 30% of responding companies report being up 10% 15% of responding companies report being up 20%

Results  Store Traffic 20% of responding companies report light traffic 45% of responding companies report normal traffic 35% of responding companies report heavy traffic

Results  Sales Margins Did they maintain them? ○ 60% of responding companies said yes ○ 40% of responding companies said no

Very Interesting Fact  Males spent more this year  to $ Men taking over the mall???

Online Shopping  Spending on Thanksgiving $272 Million (29% increase)  Spending on Black Friday $535 Million (22% increase)  Cyber Monday showed an increase in planned traffic 72 million shoppers (up from 60.7 million in 2006)

Top Websites  Bfads.net  Tigerdirect.com (Pink Friday )  Gottadeal.com  Dealtaker.com  Amazon.com  Dealnews.com  Bfgear.com  Walmart.com

Black Friday “Hot Items”  Wii (second year in a row)  Zune  Digital Photo frames  Kitchen Aid Appliances  Guitar Hero 3, Rock Band  Office 2004 student and teacher edition  Cannon Digital Cameras

Local Results  Lancaster mall area  Stores visited Best Buy Macy’s Old Navy Starbucks Circuit City Target

Sources  Main Article  _and_margins_up_for_most_htsa_retailers/K _and_margins_up_for_most_htsa_retailers/K33 2  Other Sources is-secon.html 2-is-secon.html