Black Friday in-person shopping declined more than 6%, bucking Thanksgiving Day increases and suggesting sales are further shifting online, according to ShopperTrak.
Black Friday sales for brick-and-mortar stores dropped 6.2% after shopping on Thanksgiving Day rose 2.3%, according to ShopperTrak data.
The pullback in brick-and-mortar stores mirrored a surge in Black Friday online shopping, which hit $7.4 billion, an all-time record for the day, according to Adobe Analytics.Black Friday shoppers wait to purchase goods at a Best Buy store on November 29, 2019 in Emeryville, United States. Black Friday is traditionally the biggest shopping event of the year, and marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season.Black Friday brick-and-mortar retail sales fell by 6.
"There is no longer one way to shop on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday," said Brian Field, senior director of global retail consulting for ShopperTrak. "Black Friday continues to remain the busiest shopping day of the year by a long shot." The drop in Black Friday physical shopping mirrors a year-long share pullback in departments stores including Macy's, Kohl's and Foot Locker, all of which are down more than 25% this year. Meanwhile, Amazon,Brick-and-mortar sales on Thanksgiving Day rose 2.3% from a year ago, resulting in a combined 3% decline for the two-day period, according to the ShopperTrak data.
Eight of the 10 predicted busiest shopping days of the year are still to come as the December holidays arrive, according to ShopperTrak. Dec. 2, also known as Cyber Monday, is on track to break records as the biggest online sales day ever, at $9.4 billion, based on Adobe estimates.
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