While scoring the best holiday sales is a highlight of the festive season, a shopping event in a crowded mall is exhausting, especially after a long night of feasting on turkey, stuffing, potatoes, and pie.
Skip the traffic, the bustling crowds, and the mile-long lineups for the cashier and instead, put Cyber Monday and its fabulous online deals onto your holiday to-do list.
Cyber Monday is an amazing holiday sales event with interesting roots back to its famous predecessor, Black Monday.
In 1960s Philadelphia, police officers were overwhelmed by annual chaos as hordes of suburban tourists would descend upon the city to perform their holiday shopping. They began using the term Black Friday to describe the situation, as they struggled with longer shifts to deal with copious amounts of traffic jams, car accidents, and shoplifting.
Since then, Black Friday came to refer to the first Friday after the American Thanksgiving holiday as an immense opportunity for physical retailers to offer incredibly-low prices to consumers who were already willing to spend the money. The excitement and success of Black Friday spread and it is now practiced in 23 countries globally.
With the advance of the digital age, Cyber Monday evolved to follow the retail victory of Black Friday holiday sales. Cyber Monday was originally a one-day 24/7 online shopping event at its inception. But many folks continued to shop for online deals after going back to work after the Thanksgiving weekend, so eCommerce retailers added additional and whopping holiday sales. Thanks to its evolution, Cyber Monday was officially declared a commercial shopping event in 2005, based on the previous year’s research that Thanksgiving was one of the biggest shopping days for Americans annually.
Cyber Monday is considered the digital version of Black Friday, with eCommerce shops offering amazingly-low prices to consumers, some starting on Black Friday, with discounts increasing until Cyber Monday. Some digital shopfronts stretch the Cyber Weekend sale further, continuing discounted prices during the following week.
Fittingly, electronic products sell the best during Cyber Monday, as people use their mobile phones to dodge crowds, traffic, and lineups to find the best online deals for new televisions, consoles, technological devices and accessories.
Tired of the chaos of Black Friday but still want to score the best online deal? Cyber Monday is the shopping event that you should be adding to your calendar.
If Black Friday is too crowded, busy, and overwhelming to be a fun shopping event, let Cyber Monday put the thrill back into holiday sales.
In the weeks and days leading up to Thanksgiving, take mental notes about potential items you want to purchase; being organized is always a plus. Historically, electronics like tablets, phones, fitness trackers, earbuds, video games, consoles, streaming devices, Bluetooth speakers, and televisions sell exceptionally well during Cyber Monday. They tend to have the highest online deals because retailers attempt to clear warehouses and stockrooms before they re-stock for Christmas. And happy consumers benefit from steep discounts.
Track your favourite stores on their websites and social media, as many will begin early advertising about upcoming online deals. Some shops take advantage of email marketing lists and in-print fliers, so check your inbox and the house’s snail mail.
Bookmark appropriate pages, save attractive social media posts, dog-ear newspaper corners, or email links to yourself to prepare for the online sales to start.
Know your prices, so you know your deal. Ensure you are familiar with the original cost or the price bracket. When an attractive sale price flashes on a pop-up or in a news feed, you want to know if that one is the best offer available.
When the time comes, all you want to have to worry about is whether your phone has enough battery life in it to complete all the shopping you want to do.
Note to self: charge phone.
When searching for the best savings this Thanksgiving, take advantage of amazing online deals for holiday sales. Skip the chaos of the shops. Enjoy the Cyber Monday shopping event extravaganza the way it was intended —in your pyjamas, on the couch, with a leftover turkey sandwich beside you. Happy Thanksgiving!
