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. Secondly, shopping, and thirdly, retail is innovating and so on the on line explosion, as the panamic began. My degree said consumers change the way they shot 40 percent of peo
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
Show with Trevor Noah Trevor okay. Before we get into the serious news, i wanted to kick things off with an adorable story that will almost definitely be turned into a secondrate Christmas Special next year. Well, it may just be new yorks unofficial new holiday mascot. A small owl found inside the Rockefeller Christmas tree tree. A worker found it tucked away in the branches. Its a small bird called a saw wood owl, the smallest in the northeast, recovering at the ravens beard wildlife center. Its getting lots of love and attention and has its own twitter page. Very nice, and its own little turtleneck, too. Trevor oh my god can we take a second to appreciate how frickin cute this owl is . Baby yoda probably put a hit on him as we speak. Hes so cute, i want one. I want to go get a little owl right now. Aaahhh that was a mistake. Owls are not pets. But, still, what a fun story, an owl hitched a ride to new york city although i guess it looks different if youre an owl. From the owls perspe
Owls are not pets. But, still, what a fun story, an owl hitched a ride to new york city although i guess it looks different if youre an owl. From the owls perspective, we moved his house. One night hes living in the woods, next morning hes paying manhattan rent. Hes used to snacking on field mice but in new york the only thing to hunt are the rats which are ten times the size of that owl. The rat will be saying, just to be clear, whos eating who . I dont like the idea of getting the owl a twitter account. We like him now. Once we start riding the tweets, wow, owl lives matter . Unfollow lets move on to Donald Joe Biden beat my ass trump. None of his legal efforts to undo the election have been working, so now hes trying a different approach. You might remembert that, yesterday, two republican Election Officials in michigan tried to throw out votes from the entire city of detroit, and then they have to be shamed into backing down. Turns out that wasnt the end of the story. Breaking over
Nevada, georgia and North Carolina as the president saws he will fight says he will fight to the end as joe biden will speak in a couple of hours. With us tonight were going to bring to you robert ray,ly lewandowski, Harmeet Dhillon, jim trust key and former jim trusty and Matthew Whitaker on the breaking news happening now. Were talking a georgia recount could happen. But heres the story, could a recount also happen in pennsylvania, nevada and the other battlegrounds too . And how long until the u. S. Gets a final result . Also we are going to ask Corey Lewandowski what the trump team says it is seeing on the ground when it comes to voter fraud. But do they have direct documentary evidence of voter fraud that would be admissible in court as critics are blasting back saying its not there, that the case is weak . And the president says, quote, expect a lot of litigation. Critics blasting back at the president s e rhetoric. Plus, the democrats continue to lose seats in the house. Democra