Thanksgiving

Just days before Thanksgiving marking the unofficial start to the holiday buying season, multiple retailers reported Tuesday their third-quarter results. Here is a summary of how the group performed. Target Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) earned $1.09 per share in the third quarter on revenue of $...

Thanksgiving and Black Friday have come and passed, which means it's time for the next key day for retail: Cyber Monday. What You Need To Know: Cyber Monday's history dates back to the early 2000s when companies offered online only deals. The tradition continues this year and consumers are...

Halloween has come and gone, which means it is now time to start looking forward to Black Friday shopping sales. The annual sales event is expected to be one of the busiest digital shopping days in U.S. history, according to a consumer insights and prediction report released by salesforce.com, inc...

GoPro Inc (NASDAQ: GPRO) issued a press release on Wednesday announcing solid camera unit sales growth during the week of Black Friday, indicating restructuring efforts to trim costs and projecting strong holiday demand in the United States for its new HERO5 cameras. Camera Unit Sales Growth GoPro...

Wedbush said its checks show Black Friday promotions of Urban Outfitters, Inc. (NASDAQ: URBN) and Anthropologie were higher than last year, with Francesca's Holdings Corp (NASDAQ: FRAN) lapping tough compares despite strong traffic. Apparel Retailers “Traffic was strong at both Urban and...

Despite aggressive promotions, retail sales on the Thanksgiving and Black Friday weekend declined, with strong online sales growth being offset by declines in bricks-and-mortar sales, Wedbush’s Seth Basham said in a report. Basham mentioned that the decline was partly due to sales being...

As online retailers kick off Cyber Monday sales, early Black Friday numbers this holiday season seem to be mixed. The National Retail Federation (NRF) is reporting that 154 million shoppers made purchases over Black Friday weekend, up from 151 million in 2015. However, those 154 million consumers...

Specialty retail and departmental stores witnessed mixed Black Friday weekend sales versus 2015, with e-commerce remaining “the clear winner” and in-store revenue continuing to be under pressure, Morgan Stanley’s Kimberly C. Greenberger said in a report. In-Store Mixed, E-Commerce...

Although all festivities around the Thanksgiving Day are now past us, the shopping bonanza is far from over. Shoppers thronged stores during the Thanksgiving weekend, the four-day period starting Thursday. Online behemoths such as Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and eBay Inc (NASDAQ: EBAY) as well...

If you believe Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping was just limited to U.S. retailers, think again, as recent findings from International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) shows that retailers outside the United States too have seen significant growth in online sales this year during these...

As millennials and older generations gear up to save this holiday season, the decade's long tradition of the Black Friday and Thanksgiving evening sales rush has dwindled for 2016. While the Thanksgiving week sales are still newsworthy, the extravaganza had fewer participants. Some retailers even...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), two retail behemoths and leaders in their respective spaces, have gone all out to woo holiday shoppers. Here is a list of irresistible offers from these two biggies you can look forward to: Wal-Mart for one promised customers...

Thanksgiving weekend offers a rare four-day weekend for most Americans. Unfortunately, Wall Street is afforded no such luxury. Instead of shutting down on both Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, the NYSE and other major U.S. exchanges are open for business for an abbreviated Friday session that...

Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) said it sold 150 million pounds of turkey and ham this Thanksgiving week, with more than 70 percent of traffic during the retailer’s Black Friday event coming from mobile. What Consumers Want Besides the massive amounts of meat sold, throughout...

In anticipation of Thanksgiving Day, Benzinga researched several economical recipes to help you save money this holiday. According to the Associated Press (AP), the projected mean cost of a Thanksgiving meal for ten people in 2016 is $49.41. This is a 13-cent rise in price from three years ago....