{"id":314040,"date":"2025-11-28T09:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314040\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T09:43:08","slug":"ai-search-and-gadgets-drive-black-friday-sales-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314040\/","title":{"rendered":"AI search and gadgets drive Black Friday sales shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence is everywhere during this year\u2019s Black Friday sales as shoppers ramp up their use of chatbots to spend more than last year, signalling a shift in how bargains are being found.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Friday sales, which have turned into a month-long affair kicking off in early November, mark the unofficial start of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/retail\/essentials-drive-6-8b-black-friday-sales-as-splurges-take-back-seat-20251117-p5nfwo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> holiday shopping season<\/a> that is often considered a litmus test of consumer spending.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence is everywhere during this year\u2019s Black Friday sales as shoppers ramp up their use of chatbots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-314040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}