Gray family tradition dictates that on Black Friday you duck and cover. You do not leave your house, unless someone needs to go to the hospital. We believe the Holiday deals will be there next week when the madness dies down. But since the creation of Cyber Monday, when e-retailers launch the jolliest shopping season with super online deals, we have finally gotten into the spirit of things. Happily we sit at our computers and increase web traffic with the rest of society. And the traffic just keeps growing and growing according to BusinessWeek. Reports show that by late afternoon on Nov. 30, the day’s online sales were up 11% from a year earlier. But while there was an increase in spending, retailers feel that shoppers will slow down on that spending as we approach the Holiday finish line. With unemployment high and expected to keep rising, households are setting aside less money for yearend holiday shopping. That means the late-November shopping surge may not last, retailing experts say. But at least the kids will have a Chrismukkah.
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