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"Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year for retailers, but it may not have been such a good day for Microsoft store sales and the company's new tablet, at least according to one analyst.\nGene Munster, a top analyst with Piper Jaffray, surveyed shoppers on Black Friday at one Apple store and one Microsoft store directly across from one another at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, and found there to be significantly less foot traffic and fewer purchases at the latter.\nShoppers purchased 17 items per hour from the Apple Store, compared to 3.5 items per hour from the Microsoft Store. Even more telling, Apple customers bought 11 iPads per hour (including the iPad Mini), while Microsoft customers didn't purchase any Surface tablets at all. In fact, all but two of the items purchased from Microsoft stores were Xbox games.\n\nSEE ALSO: iPad Wins 88% of Black Friday Tablet Traffic [INFOGRAPHIC]\nOverall, Munster found that the Microsoft store had 47% less foot traffic during the time he was there than Apple's Store.\nThe findings, presented in a research note on Monday, are intended as \"musings.\" Munster's team spent two hours outside the Microsoft store and eight hours outside the Apple store on Black Friday, which hardly constitutes a comprehensive report. Still, his findings\u00A0suggest a significant difference in demand for the two companies' retail locations and their flagship tablets.\nMicrosoft opened its first retail location in 2009 \u2014 eight years after Apple opened its first store \u2014 and Microsoft is still playing catch-up. Microsoft received its 15 millionth in-store customer earlier this month, a milestone that Apple reached within its first year of launching retail locations. Now, Apple gets more than 300 million visitors to its stores worldwide each year."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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