As many of you have noticed the increase of online sales in the United States, developing a new tendency among the American retailers for the past few years. The local retailers tend to start the Christmas shopping season earlier with each year. The local retail employees complain that the holidays in the U.S. have become very commercialized. The holidays are no longer about the time spending with your family & friends, but about which retailer opens its doors first for the season's shopping, thus pushing their employees even more than they did before, to work extended hours during the holidays.
In 2014 American retailers launched Christmas shopping season as early as 2 months before Christmas. Shockingly enough, in the year of 2015, their Christmas products were already out on the shelves starting in September. The consumer demand has proven the early launch not to be mistaken, the Christmas products were sold out before Halloween & Thanksgiving.
Another deciding factor for the shopping season this year has become the unusual warm weather. The U.S. retailers, such as Target, Kohl's, Walgreens and Walmart consulted Weather Trends International, to come up with the most accurate markdown strategies and sales planning. This weather consulting company of scientific researchers have provided with the valuable business planning analytics, based on the weather forecast as early as 11 months in advance with the accuracy of 84%, which is the highest it could ever project.
As a result, the biggest American retailers like Macy's, Nordstrom, Banana Republic, have posted enormous discounts on winter stock. Check out the links below to see what products are going on post-winter sale, and don't forget that you can register here for a FREE shipping address in the U.S., and start forwarding your online purchases to have it all consolidated, and shipped to your international location.
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