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Mejuri’s Black Friday Jewelry Sale is Making it Easy to Cross Everyone Off Our Holiday Shopping Lists

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You don’t need to wait for your next gala to rock a piece of glitzy fine jewelry. Mejuri designs minimalist, high-quality jewelry that elevates even the most basic WFH outfit, so you can feel like a total rockstar every day of the year in pieces like Petal Studs, the Diamonds Open Ring, and the Sapphire Choker. For Black Friday, one of the internet’s most beloved jewelry brands is treating us to an irresistible deal: Get 10% off the purchase of one item, 15% off two items, and 20% off three items or more. With all those awesome savings, Mejuri has basically decided for us what all of our loved ones are getting for the holidays—and we can’t say we’re mad about it.

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Black Friday shopping dropped 52% in US stores, while online sales rose by 22%, according to data

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calendar: Stores like Macy's opened on Black Friday, but some stayed closed and urged people to shop online. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

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Stores like Macy’s opened on Black Friday, but some stayed closed and urged people to shop online. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Retail stores were emptier than usual on Black Friday, as more than half the crowds who usually shop in person stayed home, according to a data tracker.

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Sensormatic Solutions reported that US stores saw 52.1% less foot traffic than the same day in 2019. As infections from the Coronavirus pandemic rise around the world, some retailers kept their doors closed. Others reduced the number of shoppers who were allowed to be in store. Photos of malls around the country showed empty stores. 

Brian Field, Sensormatic’s senior director of global retail consulting, said in a press release: “Due to COVID-19 and social distancing requirements, shoppers were more purposeful in their in-person Black Friday shopping, causing significantly less crowds than we’ve seen in the past.”

He said that this was compounded by retailers not offering as many “in-store doorbusters”, as well as the increasing adoption of e-commerce.

In-store traffic declined most on Thanksgiving Day, falling 94.9%. For the entire Thanksgiving week, in-store shopping fell 45.2%, according to the release.



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Many stores had far fewer shoppers than usual on Thanksgiving week. Jeenah Moon/Getty Images

Said Field: “Many well-known retailers elected to close on Thanksgiving this year to prevent crowds in stores and give their hard-working employees more time with their families. Additionally, with Black Friday deals being spread throughout the holiday season, the typical holiday traffic peaks are flattening, with more days sharing importance throughout the season.”

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention listed in-person shopping as a “higher risk” activity during the pandemic, and urged shoppers to switch to online buying. Adobe Analytics said online shopping grew 22% on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, when retailers big and small roll out deals to jumpstart holiday sales, according to CNBC.

Taylor Schreiner, a director at Adobe Digital Insights, told CNBC: “New consoles, phones, smart devices and TVs that are traditional Black Friday purchases are sharing online shopping cart space this year with unorthodox Black Friday purchases such as groceries, clothes, and alcohol, that would previously have been purchased in-store.”

Even with the Coronavirus pandemic, Sensormatic expects holiday shopping to pick up in stores during December. 

“As we approach Super Saturday, December 19, and corresponding shipping deadlines, we expect to see some of the in-store traffic that didn’t materialize on Black Friday appear as consumers wrap up their holiday shopping and make last-minute purchases,” said Field.

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Black Friday beauty deals 2020: Offers from Boots, Fenty, Urban Decay, Huda Beauty and more

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Calling all beauty-lovers, Black Friday 2020 is finally here, and it’s time to bag a bargain across thousands of your favourite brands.

Perhaps you’re looking to restock your favourite skincare stash, or want to invest in the latest hair tool, whatever it is, today’s the day to do it.

Rather than trawling through hundreds of products and navigating numerous tabs on your phone, we’re doing the hard work for you and bringing you the very best deals throughout the event. 

All you need to do is get your wish lists at the ready and prepare to make huge savings across everything from hair, skincare, make-up and perfume deals. Keep checking this page to stay completely up to date. You can thank us later.

Our IndyBest team hand-picks every deal we feature. We may earn some commission from the links in this article, but our selections have been made independently and without bias. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent.

The best Black Friday beauty deals

Charlotte Tilbury starry eyes to hypnotise palette duo: Worth £120, now £60, Charlotte Tilbury

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This is an unmissable deal. Buy one for yourself and you’ll get one free to gift someone else. We love how versatile this palette is, with a huge array of tones and formulas to play with. Whether you’re looking for a smokey khaki eye or a warm pink shimmer, there’s so many looks to create within one palette. As with all Charlotte Tilbury products, the packaging feels weighty and luxe, making this the perfect Christmas gift. 

Fenty Beauty Match Stix Trio, Was £46, now £23, Boots

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Boots is running its Black Friday sale from 4 to 30 November, with new deals being added every day, offering up to 50 per cent off well-loved brands such as Clinique, Givenchy, Remington and Fenty Beauty.

This half price Fenty set is going straight in our basket. It includes two Match Stix Matte Skinsticks to conceal and contour, and one Match Stix Shimmer Skinstick to highlight. .

Any make-up by Rihanna’s powerhouse brand is a hit, and there are plenty more Fenty Beauty products included in the Boots sale here.

Neal’s Yard Remedies bath time ritual: Was £52, now £36

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For a moment of calm this Christmas, Neal’s Yard have discounted its Bath Time Ritual bundle. This includes its lavender-scented Aromatic Foaming Bath, Body Butter and Aromatherapy Blend, an essential oil perfect to pop into a diffuser. As with all products from Neal’s Yard, everything is certified organic by the Soil Association and carries the cruelty-free Leaping Bunny.

Reviewing another of Neal Yard’s bath time products, our tester praised the brand’s classic fragrance that’s “not so sweet and cloying as many artificial lavender scents: just pure relaxing essential oil”.

Estée Lauder firm and renew collection: Was £142, now £106.50

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Best gaming accessories deals on Black Friday: Xbox controllers, gaming mice and more

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This story is part of Holiday Gift Guide 2020, CNET’s gift picks with expert advice, reviews and recommendations for the latest tech gifts for you and your family.

Black Friday can be a great time to pick up some sweet, sweet discounts on some great gaming gear. We’ve cherry-picked a generous handful of good Black Friday (or just current) deals on controllers, mechanical keyboards, mice, headsets, monitors and more that we think are actually worth buying. 

You won’t find reduced prices on this year’s hottest products like the Xbox Series X, Series S, PS5, Nintendo Switch, Switch Lite or their newest accessories, or on the latest RTX 30-series Nvidia GPUs and AMD Radeon RX 6000-series GPUs — if you can even find any of them in stock. Nor are there any reasonable deals, as far as I can tell, on any graphics cards. Even the old models seem overpriced for what they offer.

Read more: Black Friday 2020 Switch game deals: Walmart is dropping Mario, Zelda and more to $30 starting Wednesday

It was hard to winnow it down — there are a ton of good prices, notably from Logitech, Razer and HyperX — so be on the lookout for those. All of these are available now, but we’ll be keeping an eye out for more as the discount season progresses.

Black Friday 2020 sales and deals

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Featured on our list of best Nintendo Switch controllers, the PowerA Enhanced Wireless is the closest you’ll find to Nintendo’s own Pro. It’s normally sold for around $40-$50, so even if you’re technically not saving $30, it’s still another $10 off. How low the price is depends on which model you buy, from Pokemon to Overwatch.

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Gaming controllers don’t last forever and eventually you’ll need a replacement. This deal slices $20 off the regular price so you can stock up. It’s not the new controller that comes with the Xbox Series X and S, but it’s still one of the best.

Logitech

Ask any gamer who makes the best wireless accessories and Logitech’s Lightspeed line is usually at the top of the list for keyboards and mice. A bunch of its gaming gear is on sale right now, but the G502 is one of the most highly recommended in its class, so it’s a good time to snap one up.

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The Kain 120 Aimo is one of our picks for best budget gaming mice, and that’s at $70. For its seemingly perpetual discount down to $30, it’s a no-brainer buy if you’re on a budget.

LG

This monitor from 2017 is no spring chicken, but for its sub-$400 discounted price you get quite a bit: quad-HD resolution (2,560×1,440) and 144Hz refresh with AMD FreeSync support. 

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Lauded by the car aficionados at our sister site Roadshow as one of the best racing wheels they’ve tried, the Xbox One-compatible G920 and PS4-compatible G29 have earned some attractive Black Friday savings.

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58 Best Black Friday Makeup Deals to Add to Cart

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Now that Turkey Day is behind us, there are tons of skin-care, makeup, body, and hair-care deals up for grabs this Black Friday (November 27). For those of us who’ve embraced self-care in the form of face and hair masks, Black Friday presents the perfect opportunity to snag top-rated and best-selling beauty essentials for less. From popular brands like Tatcha and Glossier to retailers like Sephora and Dermstore, these excellent “holiday” offerings are definitely worth bookmarking.

To help you restock on beauty must-haves, below, we’ve rounded up the best Black Friday beauty markdowns to shop right now. If you’re on the hunt for the best gift for a friend or family member, these sales make it easy to score a stylish gift set or cult-favorite product while keeping some extra cash in your wallet. Many of these deals won’t last long, so we suggest getting a jump on these limited-time discounts before time runs out. Be sure to check back on this page, as we will update it with the newest beauty deals as they continue to roll in throughout Black Friday and Cyber Monday. And if you’re especially in the shopping spirit, be sure to check out our lists of clothing, bedding, wellness, and home deals, too.

Sephora is offering markdowns up to 60% off for Black Friday on popular items from brands like Benefit Cosmetics and Anastasia Beverly Hills. From December 17 through December 23, Beauty Insiders who spend more than $50 in a single transaction by Cyber Monday (November 30) are eligible to receive 15% off toward a future purchase, which is ideal for last-minute holiday savings. Nicely, through November 30, every online Sephora purchase is available for free shipping with the code FREESHIP at checkout.

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One of our holy-grail brands, Glossier, is offering a number of rare deals during its only sale of the year. You can score up to 25% off sitewide on the brand’s range of buzzy skin care, body care, and makeup products, like the fragrant but not overpowering Glossier You Eau de Parfum, and highly pigmented Cloud Paint. Customers can also save up to 35% off on top-rated and limited-edition Glossier gift sets through November 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT. See all of our favorite picks here. 

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As on every Black Friday, Amazon has a host of best-selling products and tools on sale across home, clothing, beauty, and tech available to shop. Customers can receive up to 50% off on premium beauty items from brands like Mario Badescu and Oribe, plus markdowns on body-care essentials like Philips’ toothbrushes, razors, and more, until November 28.

Now through December 1, Fenty Beauty is offering up to 30% off sitewide (with the exception of Clara Lionel Foundation products), making this the perfect time to get your hands on a few limited-edition sets and Rihanna-favorited items (like the coveted Stunna Lip Paint).

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The Black Friday Clothing Sales You Don’t Want To Miss: J.Crew, Nike & More

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Black Friday clothing sales are in full swing and there are some excellent deals to be had this weekend. Most Black Friday clothing deals are at least 20%, but plenty of retailers are discounting even steeper. Adidas, J.Crew, and Banana Republic are just some of the retailers offering as much as 50% off. So whether you’re looking for new styles to add to your wardrobe, or pieces to give as holiday gifts, there’s bound to be a Black Friday clothing sale or two for you to take advantage of this weekend.

Tip: Bookmark this page and check back regularly as we update the best clothing deals of Black Friday 2020. For more, see our guide to the best Black Friday sales and deals.

Shoppers looking to stock up on basics would do well to check out sales from Entireworld, Richer Poorer and Uniqlo. And those looking for a Black Friday deal on activewear should give the sales at Lululemon, Outdoor Voices and Sweaty Betty a browse. And for luxury, there’s no beating Net-A-Porter, Ssense, and Moda Operandi.

Psst: Want more Black Friday deals? See our guides to the best Black Friday deals at Ulta and Dermstore, plus the best Black Friday jewelry sales, best Ugg deals, and best Nike deals.

Black Friday 2020: The Best Clothing Sales & Deals

  • & Other Stories: Take 25% off everything through November 27th.
  • Adidas: Take up to 50% a wide range of Adidas shoes and apparel from November 23—28. From November 29 through December 2, shoppers can take 30% off full price and sale items with the code BRINGJOY.
  • Allsaints: 30% off everything until Dec. 1
  • Alo Yoga: Take up to 70% off sitewide. (Yep, that’s not a typo.) The site is also running “limited-edition drops” all week, which are 20% off.
  • Amazon Fashion: If you’re not privy to Amazon Fashion, now’s a great time to check it out. Amazon is rolling out sales and daily deals on sweaters, leggings, scarves, and pajamas right now, but likely saving the best clothing deals for Black Friday, including the famous “Orolay Coat”.
  • Anthropologie: Take 30% off everything through November 29th.
  • Apiece Apart: Take 15% off with code THANKFUL at this small high-end women’s brand, which rarely holds sales.
  • Asos: Up to 70% off everything.
  • Banana Republic: Get 50% everything until November 28th.
  • Bonobos: Take 30% off everything all week with the code FRIDAYWEEK. Some exclusions may apply.
  • Collina Strada: Take 20% off site wide with code SALE20.
  • Comme Des Garçons: Shop dozens of on-sale Comme des Garçons pieces via Garmentory, with some serious price cuts in the mix (upwards of $1000).
  • COS: From November 26—29, take 25% off when you spend $200. On
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Black Friday early birds in Dallas did their doorbuster shopping online

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If not for Microsoft and Sony, this would have been the most boring early bird start to Black Friday ever.

Some stores in Dallas where lines of people would wrap around the building in previous years had no shoppers in line when they opened.

GameStop, the only retailer selling the new PlayStation 5 and Xbox consoles in stores on Black Friday, scored big time at its 7 a.m. openings.

The rest of the historically strong Black Friday retail universe was barely visited. Starting about noon, people slowly started showing up in bigger numbers both at the big box stores and at some of the malls. By midafternoon, NorthPark Center in Dallas was as busy as on a good pre-pandemic Saturday, and shoppers were carrying lots of bags.

Many of the stores at NorthPark had signs saying they were giving an additional 30% or 50% off purchases through Monday.

Neiman Marcus vice president and Dallas general manager Mary McGreevy said that while stores were not as busy, people had “bags in hand” and were there to shop. The NorthPark Neiman Marcus store’s Louis Vuitton shop had a line Friday afternoon, she said. “I have no science behind it, but it feels more like people are giving generously this year.”

Black Friday is also a day “when we see self-purchasing and people looking for great value,” McGreevy said. The Neman Marcus store at NorthPark had several areas devoted to gift ideas and this week reopened its Mermaid restaurant, which had been closed since March.

The morning doorbuster-discount crowds that have made Black Fridays something to write about reflected little of the past. Only 50 people were in line at the Best Buy on Park Lane in Dallas, a store that in past years would have more than 1,000 waiting to get in at 5 a.m. Next door at Dick’s Sporting Goods, which also opened at 5 a.m., there were no shoppers waiting to get in.

The somewhat tepid in-store shopping may not be totally disappointing to the big box chains as long as customers shopped their discounts online. Major U.S. chain stores have been offering Black Friday promotions since the beginning of the month.

According to Adobe Analytics data, Thanksgiving Day saw consumers spend a record $5.1 billion online, an increase of 21.5% from a year ago.

Sean Berube, who was visiting from Arizona, walked out of a Dallas Best Buy with a KitchenAid mixer for his wife on Black Friday. Berube had waited in line before doors opened at 5 a.m. "This was the only one," Berube said. "I got lucky."
Sean Berube, who was visiting from Arizona, walked out of a Dallas Best Buy with a KitchenAid mixer for his wife on Black Friday. Berube had waited in line before doors opened at 5 a.m. “This was the only one,” Berube said. “I got lucky.” (Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer)

While a few items were reserved for Black Friday shopping, they were also available for purchase online to be delivered or picked up at the store. To handle the increased curbside pickup volume, Best Buy set up a tent at the entrance.

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Black Friday shopping in stores craters 52% during pandemic as e-commerce sales surge

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  • Traffic at stores on Black Friday fell by 52.1% compared with last year, according to preliminary data from Sensormatic Solutions.
  • “Shoppers are spreading out their shopping throughout the holiday season because of concerns about social distancing and the pandemic,” said Brian Field.
  • Online spending on Black Friday surged 21.6% to hit a new record, according to data from Adobe Analytics.



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Shoppers walk past an Apple Store at Franklin Park Mall during Black Friday. Shoppers go to stores to take advantage of Black Friday sales during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Traffic at stores on Black Friday fell by 52.1% compared with last year, as Americans by and large eschewed heading to malls and queuing up in lines for shopping online, according to preliminary data from Sensormatic Solutions.

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For the six key weeks of the holiday season this year, traffic in retail stores is expected to be down 22% to 25% year over year, an earlier forecast by Sensormatic Solutions said.

“We knew Black Friday [traffic] was going to be down, we just didn’t know how much it was going to be down,” said Brian Field, a senior director of global retail consulting at Sensormatic Solutions. “Shoppers are spreading out their shopping throughout the holiday season because of concerns about social distancing and the pandemic.”

The Covid pandemic has pushed a record number of consumers to shop online, instead, as retailers place many of their top holiday doorbuster deals online and encourage shoppers to buy on the web and then pick up purchases curbside. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also recommended that Americans shop online the day after Thanksgiving.

Many malls looked bleak, and parking lots were more empty than full, across much of the country during the early hours of the morning Friday. Some reported traffic picking up later in the day, especially at outlet and open-air shopping centers, as some consumers felt more comfortable heading out. The warmer weather that blanketed much of the country also helped.

The typical peak time for shopping on Black Friday remained the same this year, hitting at about 2 p.m., Sensormatic Solutions said.

On Thanksgiving Day, when many retailers including Walmart and Target closed their stores this year due to the pandemic, traffic dropped 94.9% year over year, according to the firm. Week-to-date, traffic is down 45.2% across the U.S.

“Black Friday this year, from a traffic impact perspective, looked a lot like a typical Saturday after a Black Friday,” Field said.

Spending online on Black Friday this year surged 21.6% to hit a new record, according to data from Adobe Analytics, as consumers rang up $9 billion worth of purchases on the web the day after Thanksgiving.

That makes Black Friday 2020 the second-largest online spending day in history in the United States, behind Cyber Monday last year, Adobe said. Cyber Monday this year is slated to become the largest digital sales day ever, with spending reaching between $10.8 billion and $12.7 billion, which would represent

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Black Friday in-store shopping dropped 52.1% amid COVID-19 as online sales broke records. Will Cyber Monday follow?

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Even with a month of sales dubbed “Black Friday,” online sales still broke records Friday as shoppers continued to click “add to cart” and scoop up deals from home.

Black Friday shopping looked a lot different in 2020 than in recent years

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The digital sales boost came as fewer shoppers ventured out to stores this year amid the coronavirus pandemic with preliminary data from Sensormatic Solutions showing in-store Black Friday traffic dropped by 52.1%.​​​

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According to Adobe Analytics, consumers spent $9 billion online, a nearly 22% increase over the $7.4 billion in 2019 online Black Friday sales.

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Adobe, which measures sales at 80 of the top 100 U.S. online retailers, said it’s the second-largest online spending day in U.S. history, coming in behind Cyber Monday 2019.

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But shoppers weren’t just purchasing new consoles, phones, smart devices and televisions.

“Traditional Black Friday purchases are sharing online shopping cart space this year with unorthodox Black Friday purchases such as groceries, clothes and alcohol, that would previously have been purchased in-store,” Taylor Schreiner, Adobe Digital Insights director, said in a statement sent to USA TODAY. 


The Los Angeles Target on La Cienega Boulevard reserved the first 30 minutes of Black Friday for seniors and vulnerable guests.



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People wearing protective masks wait in line to enter Foot Locker store during Black Friday on November 27, 2020 in New York.



Sisters Dayna Carroll (left), and Brandi Baldasty, both of Stuart, arrive at Target before 7 a.m. on Black Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at the store in Martin County, Florida. Discounts on electronics, kitchen tools and toys were among the top deals offered. “(It’s) just a tradition,” Carroll said. “Sister time.”



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7 ways Black Friday shopping changed this year due to the pandemic, from sales starting online in October to empty stores

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Black Friday looked different this year, and some are theorizing that it will never look the same again.

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The entire holiday shopping season was upended by the coronavirus pandemic, with sales that started earlier and were mostly online. Retail trade group the National Retail Federation said that nearly 69% of retailers that responded to a survey said they expected consumers to start their holiday shopping in October, and the sales have been going ever since.

The organization projected that overall holiday spending would be slightly down, at $997.79 per consumer, but 60% of shoppers in its survey said they planned to do at least some holiday shopping online, in a year when e-commerce has boomed. Analysts from eMarketer predicted that holiday spending this year would total about $1 trillion, with a slight decrease in in-store sales but a 35% jump in online sales.

Read more: Retailers are struggling to attract seasonal workers for what experts anticipate will be a ‘tough holiday season’

The analysts predicted that as shoppers avoid crowds and are drawn in with monthlong sales, e-commerce spending would make up about $190 billion of the $1 trillion in holiday spending. So far, stores look mostly empty, while it remains to be seen if the bulk of online orders will exceed the capacity of shipping companies and cause delays.

Here’s how Black Friday is different this year.

Black Friday is no longer just one day



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Black Friday’s remaining connection to its namesake day is tenuous, at best. Sales arguably started with Amazon’s Prime Day in October, which itself was spread across two days. Other stores like Walmart responded with similar sales, kicking off the holiday shopping bonanza in a year of huge e-commerce growth.

“I don’t even know if I’d call it Black Friday anymore,” Boston Consulting Group’s head of retail, Nate Shenck, told Business Insider. Walmart, Target, and Best Buy, traditionally three of the biggest Black Friday sellers, each opted to spread deals across the entire month of November, instead of concentrating them on the day after Thanksgiving.

A major change from previous years was spreading sales across the month instead of packing them into one day. Deals were be divided by type of product, so electronics shoppers wouldn’t have to fight with home-goods buyers and parents picking up last-minute toys.

No more lining up in the middle of the night 



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Black Friday sales previously crept earlier and earlier, into Thanksgiving itself as some stores released the biggest sales before dinner was even over. This year, though, most retailers reversed that trend, and may have ended it for good.

Most stores did not open on Thanksgiving this year, even the ones that traditionally have like Walmart and Target. On Black Friday, they opened slightly earlier than normal, but midnight openings were rare. JC Penney, Kohl’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and

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