Thats ali baba alone, while black friday was once the 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 copa 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 from dr. Vankin shankar, director of research at the center for retailing studies that made 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
Pope, but still no sign of donald trump conceding to joe biden. Also im natasha popular in paris 5 years after the movember 2015 attacks. There are still painful memories and deep divisions. Montana how much not have all the days sport, including number one in the dust. And johnson takes a share of the lead after the 2nd round of the mostest. Hello, welcome to the program out top story, the United Nations saying that its concerned war crimes might have been committed in ethiopias, northern ted gray region, a Government Forces are battling local leaders. Its when the fighting could spiral out of control leading to heavy casualties. The 10 day conflict has already killed hundreds of people and sent thousands more, fleeing across the border to sudan, the Prime Minister, the i am that has accused the take great Peoples Liberation front of treason and terrorism, and says the offensive wont end until they have removed Amnesty International has said schools of civilians have been massacred du
Wrapped up with meeting the taliban delegation involved in intra afghan talks, you have met an hour earlier with the Afghan Government delegation. These are talks the were rated back in september, the u. S. Secretary of state where he was here for that as well. But its been a difficult process moving forward. The talks still stuck on the technicalities of what kind of islamic rule will govern that govern the framework of these troops. I think the message certainly from my pump air will be that theyre keen to get the 2 sides to sit down to really get to the difficult issues just hours before pompei those talks with the Afghan Government and taliban negotiate is i sold fired walkouts on kabul, killing at least 8 people, dozens of others were injured in the a tux. The United Nations says a full scale humanitarian crisis is unfolding in northern ethiopia. The u. N. Has called on warring sides to hold fighting immediately so more aid can be delivered and refugee safe zones can be set up. Th
62,000 patients admitted with serious cases of covid19 that breaks the record of 60,000 patients that was set back in april. The u. S. Recorded an 8th straight day of more than 100,000 new cases and texas became the first state to top 1 million coronavirus cases surpassing all of italy. Governors across the country are urging people to stay home and limits, socializing. California could surpass 1 million confirmed cases by tomorrow. There were 7400 new cases today and 69 people died. While here in the bay area there were 300 new cases and one new death. Contra costa and santa cruz counties were forced to roll back their reopening plans due to a rise in covid cases and San Francisco has also halted reopening plants other bay area counties are on track to do the same. If they are unable to slow the spread. How about this if everybody wore a mask, the lockdowns might go away sooner and the pandemics impact on the economy might not be as bad yeah well thats the upshot of revised recommenda
Does your question has more on the speed of the trials in the us . The fact that the 3rd stage Clinical Trials are wrapped up so quickly here for pfizer is because the participants had more exposure to cohabit than initially the timeline had anticipated. That is because of how big of a peak the u. S. Is experiencing at this moment with 11400000 people having already been infected. Now the way that this study was conducted is that they took 44000, people split them in 2 groups, half of them got the vaccine, the other had did not among the group that did not get the vaccine. Well, there were 162 cases of cove. It 3 people have been killed in protests in uganda after a president ial opposition candidate was arrested. The pop star turned politician known as bobby wine says he was violently dragged out of his car by police. Officials say his campaigning has broken coronavirus restrictions. The rest is centered mainly on kampala. Both sides are claiming the upper hand as the conflict in ethi