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"Black Friday is starting to look a bit more like Cyber Monday. According to IBM's study of 500 retailers, online sales on Friday were up 24.3% over last year, suggesting that people stayed home to avoid the crowds and in-store havoc.\nMobile devices accounted for 14.3% of all online Black Friday traffic, up from 5.6% last year, and they were responsible for 9.8% of online sales. The iPad proved to be the king of post-Thanksgiving retail \u2014 its users were more likely to purchase than other mobile users, with conversion rates reaching 4.6%.\nEcommerce sales increased from last year in many retail sectors, from home to apparel to beauty, and web traffic catapulted department store sales to 59% higher than last year's Black Friday.\nBlack Friday was a hot topic on social media channels, too. Visits to Twitter and Facebook were likely to yield chatter about Black Friday sales, out-of-stock items, parking troubles and long lines. The volume of Black Friday dialogue was 110% more than last year, and there was \"a spike in positive sentiment\" around and anticipation for Cyber Monday.\nDid you use your mobile device to shop on Black Friday? Are you holding out for Cyber Monday? Let us know in the comments below."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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