The article had 1.35b as an estimate for cyber monday online sales. Black friday is a lot bigger overall - on the order of 50 billion for the weekend. Of cours

The article had 1.35b as an estimate for cyber monday online sales. Black friday is a lot bigger overall - on the order of 50 billion for the weekend. Of course in the US there is no single retailer capturing such a huge share of the sales on our invented holidays. But cmon, we pretty much invented the inventing of consumer holidays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)#Retail_sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)#Retail...