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The term "Cyber Monday" was coined by Ellen Davis, [6] [7] and was first used within the ecommerce community during the 2005 holiday season. [8] According to Scott Silverman, the head of Shop.org, the term was coined based on 2004 research showing "one of the biggest online shopping days of the year" was the Monday after Thanksgiving (12th-biggest day historically). [9]
Thanksgiving, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, Christmas, Buy Nothing Day. Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and often open early, sometimes ...
In 2019, 93.2 million buyers made purchases online during Black Friday, amassing 7.4 billion dollars in revenue and surpassing Cyber Monday (83.3 million) in total online buyers [10] There was a 19 percent increase compared to the year before. Also, with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there was a 50% reduction in people that went in-store ...
Buy Nothing Day is a day of protest against consumerism. In North America, the United Kingdom, Finland and Sweden, Buy Nothing Day is held the day after U.S. Thanksgiving, concurrent with Black Friday; elsewhere, it is held the following day, which is the last Saturday in November. [ 1][ 2] Created by artist Ted Dave and promoted by magazine ...
The Digital Cleanup Day is an annual event to raise global awareness about the environmental impact of the digital industry. This initiative encourages people to take concrete action by cleaning up their digital data and/or giving a second life to their unused computer equipment. [ 1]
Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. [ 2] It is sometimes called American Thanksgiving (outside the United States) to distinguish it from the Canadian holiday of the same name and related celebrations in other regions.
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Circulation. 30,000 (first issue) Website. None. Le Jour (French for "The Day") was a Quebec independence newspaper. It was founded in Saint-Laurent, near Montreal, by Yves Michaud, Jacques Parizeau and René Lévesque. Michaud was editor-in-chief. The paper was published as a daily from 1974 to 1976, and again as a weekly from 1977 to 1978.