In a year like no other, its a black friday like weve never seen before. The pandemic has many people staying home. Im ama daetz. Im dion lim. While black friday isnt what were used to, there are still lines to be found at malls and some people did brave the cold, some for as long as 36 hours to snatch up some of the most popular items. Liz kreutz was in dublin early this morning when the doors opened. Reporter when the doors of the best buy in dublin opened at 5 00 a. M. , there was no running, no pushing, no shoving. It was peaceful. There wasnt any rushing or craziness. Reporter like so much else this year, this black friday felt different, much calmer. Still, some people did brave the cold to wait in line. Sky 7 got this video from the livermore outlets and here is the doors opening at target in dublin. Friends jaden and mossy got to best buy at 4 00 a. M. 287 for a 50inch. Great deal. Reporter these guys were hoping to get a playstation 5 and werent the only ones. The game stop in
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
Selloff and a dollar selloff at the same time . What does that actually mean . We will break that down as well. Guy and youve got bitcoin rocketing to a record high. Out of the United States, pending home sales month on month a little weaker than anticipated, 1. 1 . Expected at 1 . The prior number revised a little higher. These have absolutely rocketed. The year on your number now stands at plus 19. 5 , which is another incredible number to think about. Lets get back to the vaccine. Is monday, and every monday morning it seems we get some news. Moderna is planning to request clearance for its Coronavirus Vaccine in the u. S. And europe today. Ceo speaking earlier to bloomberg. We have millions of doses ready. We have more and more every couple of days. Joining us now is robert. He spoke a little earlier on. I think they have a review coming up on the 17th. After the potential clearance on that date, how quickly can we get things up and running . Robert they have been told in publicu.
Beyond. That first macro trends advisor mitch rishel joins me now, retailers were already offering deep discounts ahead of the start of the Holiday Shopping season despite all the advanced shopping, is there still some pentup demand . I think theres tremendous pentup demand, deep discounts went down into the summer and some retailers especially the division is offering them as black friday deals on fridays in july and august, tremendous pentup demand, i think its cabin fever, retail therapy, i think there is enough momentum to carry us through the holidays with the level of volume. Dagen is there enough money to curious into the holidays remember the extra money people were getting on their unemployment checks that expired at the end of july, is there enough money that people have socked away to really drive sales . I think so, you look at the savings rate which spiked in april and even has come down a bit, it is still two times the level of savings that americans normally do think abo
Beyond. That first macro trends advisor mitch rishel joins me now, retailers were already offering deep discounts ahead of the start of the Holiday Shopping season despite all the advanced shopping, is there still some pentup demand . I think theres tremendous pentup demand, deep discounts went down into the summer and some retailers especially the division is offering them as black friday deals on fridays in july and august, tremendous pentup demand, i think its cabin fever, retail therapy, i think there is enough momentum to carry us through the holidays with the level of volume. Dagen is there enough money to curious into the holidays remember the extra money people were getting on their unemployment checks that expired at the end of july, is there enough money that people have socked away to really drive sales . I think so, you look at the savings rate which spiked in april and even has come down a bit, it is still two times the level of savings that americans normally do think abo