The Deets

A look at Cyber Monday a week after the fact.

Cyber Monday refers to the first Monday after the Thanksgiving weekend in the United States. This is supposedly the biggest online shopping day of the year. But is it? Here’s a graph of an online retailer’s 2005 daily revenue through yesterday’s ‘Cyber Monday’: Wow! That’s one heck of a spike! So Cyber Monday really exists? [...]

Amazon.com has long been a leader in customer participation among retail web sites. If you haven’t been to Amazon in a while, take a quick look at the page for Freakonomics to get a feel for what Amazon is doing now. Product pages include tons of user contributed information, including: Customer Reviews Customer Ratings Ratings [...]

Are you a bargain shopper who takes advantage of the deals offered by retailers on the day after Thanksgiving? This year, consider skipping the dark parking lots. Instead, stay at home and get the same deals online. Many major retailers are offering the same deals on their web sites, so you can avoid pulling a [...]