Nov 28, 2011
Black Friday is behind us now, but Cyber Monday is here! If you didn’t stay up all night waiting in lines for $2 waffle makers in Wal-Mart stores around the country, or in any of the other brick and mortar retail stores all over the United States, you’re probably like me, who spent Black Friday hiding behind my iPad 2 continuing to read the Steve Jobs biography or playing Plants VS Zombies, waiting the arrival of the biggest shopping day of MY year: Cyber Monday.
Online stores, taking a cue from major retailers, actually started their Cyber Monday sales early and offered deals throughout the holiday weekend. They’re still going strong today, so don’t worry about having missed out on anything spectacular. Unlike Black Friday events in stores, Cyber Monday deals don’t tend to have the quantity caps that can result in standing in line for hours only to miss out what you really hoped to get.
This year’s online holiday sales are already showing record figures, and are expected to really send the shopping season into a flurry of profits for e-tailers hoping to get back in black before closing the books for the year, and for shoppers, this means great deals are out there just waiting for you to add to cart. You can find deals on everything from Apple computers to ADT by shopping today.
Check out the following infographic for more on the online shopping uptick this year:
