Does "Black Five" Mark The Death Of Shopping Malls This Year?

The economic recovery is steady, the unemployment rate continues to fall, the consumption confidence is maintained high, and the weather in the large part of the region is fine...

All these favorable factors foreshadowed the end of this year.

In the quarter, businesses will have a good harvest.

But from this year's shopping choices of American consumers,

The online retailers represented by the company will obviously get a bigger slice from the "good harvest".

According to the world clothing and shoe net, the last Friday in November, the first day after Thanksgiving, is called "black Friday" in the United States. It is the most important shopping festival throughout the year.

And the first Monday after Thanksgiving is also known as "Internet Monday", becoming the largest online shopping day in the United States.

From Thanksgiving to Christmas, it is also the most important shopping season in the United States. Retailers sell three to 40% of their sales throughout the year.

According to the latest report of the American ODO company, the sales volume of US Thanksgiving Day and "black Friday" on the two day of this year reached US $7 billion 900 million, an increase of 17.9% over the same period last year, setting a record high.

The report also predicts that, after Thanksgiving Day, "Internet Monday", the total sales volume of the US network will reach US $6 billion 600 million, and it will also record the highest US retail sales per day.

Moreover, the US online retail sales are expected to exceed US $100 billion for the first time during the end of this year's shopping season.

Online store sales are booming, while physical store performance is not satisfactory.

Although sales data of physical stores are not yet released, according to the statistics of shopper tracking market research firm, the number of visitors to physical stores during Thanksgiving and "black five" decreased by 1.6% compared with last year.

Reporters came to Washington Messi department store on Thanksgiving night. Although there was a lot of discounts, there were few customers.

Not far away, Nord's business is similar.

Most of the traditional shopping malls are hard to hide, except for the big outlets outlets in the outer suburbs of Washington.

Steve Kurtz, producer of Fawkes TV in America, wrote in the column: "will" black five "mark the death of shopping malls this year?

Since the emergence of the first large shopping mall in the United States in 1956, this consumption pattern once defined the American way of life.

However, with the rise of online shopping giants such as Amazon, shopping malls are declining.

The United States has not built another large shopping mall since 2006.

Moreover, existing physical stores are also shrinking rapidly.

According to market research data, so far this year, Jesse Pani department store has closed 138 stores in the United States, Messi department stores closed 68, and Sears closed 150.

Messi's department store, once a symbol of American department stores, has been on the Internet in recent years.

Under the impact of the situation is increasingly difficult.

In the past two years, Messi stores have closed more than 100 stores which are not well managed, but the sales situation of the remaining stores continues to deteriorate.

Since 2015, Messi store's same store sales have declined for three consecutive years, and share prices have also fallen off the cliff. At present, the stock price is less than 1/3 of the 2015 high.

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