The best day to do your holiday shopping is the day you want to do it the least. If you have to pick a single day to do all your online shopping, make it November 26. Holiday shoppers will find the lowest online prices on Thanksgiving Day, according to the Adobe Digital Index, which pulls eight years of sales data from 4,500 companies and 55 million products.
Is 2015 going to be the year of when everybody stuffs their stockings using smartphones? New data from Facebook suggests that consumers are rapidly growing more comfortable shopping with mobile devices, particularly younger demographics–which could have implications for advertisers and retailers during the upcoming holiday shopping season.
China said it would formally end its notorious one-child policy, which was intended to curb a surging population but has since been blamed for looming demographic problems in the world’s No. 2 economy.
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