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Consumer technology revenue declines Black Friday week

Matthew
By Matthew
Dec 9, 2009
  1. Consumers were all about saving money this Black Friday, so much in fact, that technology revenue dropped on-year during the week according to NPD. Total revenue for the busy shopping week was just over $2.7 billion, a 1.2% decline from 2008.

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    Dec 9, 2009
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  2. TomSEA

    TomSEA TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 3,142   +1,642

    Odd - with the exception of flat-panel TV's, every other category showed significant increase over last year. Yet a 1.2% overall drop. (shrugs) I don't get it...
     
    Dec 10, 2009
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  3. Matthew

    Matthew TS Evangelist Topic Starter Posts: 5,270   +104

    The report basically suggests that while more items were sold, their low prices resulted in less revenue than last year.

    There is a bit of ambiguity between volume and revenue, so I apologize.
     
    Dec 10, 2009
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  4. TomSEA

    TomSEA TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 3,142   +1,642

    No apology needed - just seemed a little weird. :)
     
    Dec 10, 2009
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