1000 pandemic has thrown a wrench in the works. The fact that many stores will not have in person a bed due to the pandemic, as well as millions of americans facing unemployment and a lack of another stimulus package to put cash in the pockets. Has many wondering what we can expect from this Holiday Shopping season. So lets get some expert analysis from dr. Banky shankar, director of research at the center for retailing studies at Mays Business School at texas a and m. And dr. Barbara stuart, the coordinator of retailing and Consumer Sciences at the university of houston. Thank you both for being here today. Dr. Stuart, i want to start with you. Were seeing a change in black friday due to the pandemic and stores want to avoid crowds. What are some new trends that were already seeing for the black friday this year . Well, here are 3 aspects that will make this a black friday, like, you know, rather firstly, Online Shopping has exploded 2nd playing well shopping. And thirdly, retail is i
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Weekend as a chance to get a jump on the Holiday Shopping, chinas single day may actually be the biggest worldwide. In fact, ecommerce behemoths ali baba expanded its single day offering to take place over 11 days this year and nearly doubled sales to more than 75 1000000000. 00. And thats ali baba alone, while black friday was once and now known for outrageous door busters that caused consumers to line up in front of Big Box Stores like target, walmart, and best buy 2019 was the 1st year in which more people shopped online than in store for the most part, sales figures have continued to trend up over the last 2 decades. But the covert 19 pandemic has thrown a wrench in the works. The fact that many stores will not have in person a bed due to the pandemic, as well as millions of americans facing unemployment and a lack of another stimulus package to put cash in a customers pockets. Has many wondering what we can expect from this Holiday Shopping season. So lets get some expert analysis
A discussion of military and civilian National Service programs, from the Brookings Institution, this is just over an hour. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. It is my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. I will begin by introducing myself briefly. I am bill gault, senior fellow in the government studies program at brookings, delighted to be a small cog in the Service Share alliance. And two people in particular, mel sawhill conceding the stand working tirelessly for six months and also john allen, for letting his vast appearance and events moral authority to our enterprise this morning and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Let me introduce the question this way. If National Service is the answer, what is the question . And we have heard and i think will hear three very different kinds of answers to that question. It is useful to keep them secret. The first test to do with service as an avenu