{"id":1304,"date":"2007-11-23T07:55:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T13:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/black-friday-stats\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T13:30:04","slug":"black-friday-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/black-friday-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the biggest shopping day of the year and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maritzresearch.com\/release.asp?rc=322&amp;p=1&amp;T=P\">Maritz Research has some of the stats<\/a> to define the day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent Maritz\u00ae Poll found that one-third of respondents (37 percent) plan to shop on the day after Thanksgiving. In last year&#8217;s poll, a similar number (34 percent) said they would shop on Black Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, those who plan to shop on Black Friday say they will spend more overall on their holiday purchases &#8211; $790 compared to $637 for all shoppers combined.<\/p>\n<p>Black Friday also has generational implications with the majority of Gen Y respondents (59 percent), as well as a significant portion of Gen X (46 percent), planning to shop. Only a small percentage of Boomers (23 percent) and the Silent Generation (21 percent) will venture out on Black Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(h\/t <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.justsell.com\/\">JustSell.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the biggest shopping day of the year and Maritz Research has some of the stats to define the day: A recent Maritz\u00ae Poll found that one-third of respondents (37 percent) plan to shop on the day after Thanksgiving. In last year&#8217;s poll, a similar number (34 percent) said they would shop on Black Friday. In addition, those who plan to shop on Black Friday say they will spend more overall on their holiday purchases &#8211; $790 compared to $637 for all shoppers combined. Black Friday also has generational implications with the majority of Gen Y respondents (59 percent), as well as a significant portion of Gen X (46&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/11\/black-friday-stats\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[76,77,78,72],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes","category-general","tag-black-friday","tag-buying-trends","tag-gen-x","tag-gen-y"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-l2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":785,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/what-gen-y-wants\/","url_meta":{"origin":1304,"position":0},"title":"What Gen Y Wants","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"March 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"SHRM's recent newsletter (membership required) contains an article discussing what Gen Y'ers are looking for in their lives. 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A just-released study from the Segmentation Company, a division of the market research firm Yankelovich reports that 65 percent of 1,000 respondents aged 24 to 35 said they preferred to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Generations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Generations","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/generations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1406,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/no-way-they-would-stay\/","url_meta":{"origin":1304,"position":4},"title":"No Way They Would Stay","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Herman Trend Alert (sorry, no link): A global survey of 4,500 workers indicates that more people anticipate leaving their employers this year than last. In the 2006 BlessingWhite study, 65 percent said that they expected to \u201cdefinitely\u201d remain with their employers through the year. 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