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HERE’S WHAT OUR BRAND KEYS EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT METRICS PREDICTED:

1. Earlier holiday shopping would become the “new normal.”
2. More shoppers would shop before Black Friday.
3. Retailers would encourage this consumer-shopping paradigm, and promote “Pre-Black Friday-like” sales. A lot.
4. (It’s a pattern we identified in 2014 and now call “Black November.”)
5. Black Friday would still embody a retail raison d’être, and a “tradition” or “ritual” for some families, but would become a relic of 20^th century retailing, with brick-and-mortar sales declining, Y-O-Y.
6. Cyber Monday would take over the role formerly played by Black Friday and would reap the benefits.
7. Top-3 on-line beneficiaries would be Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy.

HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED:

1. Black Friday foot traffic was down 6%.
2. Black Friday sales were down 7%.
3. It’s the 4^th straight year in a row. Not an encouraging pattern.
4. Cyber Monday sales were up 18% Y-O-Y.
5. Amazon had its biggest shopping day in the company’s history.
6. They sold 100 million products.
7. Clicking “Add to Cart” has become easier than finding a parking space.

ONE MORE PREDICTION:

For now, and the foreseeable future, when it comes to the holidays, for consumers there’s only one shopping day left ‘til tomorrow.

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