Black Friday online shopping will hit a new record this year, even though consumers headed back to physical stores as the pandemic waned

This will be a new record for online shopping. It's just.

The consumers spent $7.28 billion. Consumers are expected to spend between $9 billion and $9.2 billion on Black Friday, setting a new record for online sales. The online total for the day was almost $9 billion.

A lead analyst at Adobe Digital Insights said in a statement that some shoppers are returning to physical stores for Black Friday after two years where Pandemic-related anxiety kept many people at home. Demand for e- commerce has not changed.

Apple Watches, Apple AirPods, smart speakers, smart TVs, digital cameras, espresso machines, and video games were among the top selling items during the day.

The amount of money people spent online on Thursday was an all-time high. A majority of people have used mobile phones to shop for the first time.

Consumers found the experience lacking compared to desktop and mobile shopping had struggled to grow. "Thanksgiving this year has become an inflection point, where smartphones drove real growth and shows how much these experiences have improved."

Black Friday's dominance may be affected by the rise of Thanksgiving as a shopping holiday. A year-over-year increase of about 1% suggests people have already been shopping for holiday gifts, as prices on electronics, toys and apparel dropped throughout November.

Cyber Monday is expected to be the busiest online shopping day of the year. People will spend more than $11 billion on Monday, an increase of 5% from a year ago, according to Adobe. Between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, the entire week will bring in $35 billion, up from last year.

According to Adobe, people have spent over seventy billion dollars in the month of November. toys like Squishmallows and hot weeks are popular. The report said that apparel and electronics are popular.