{"id":160172,"date":"2025-11-29T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/160172\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:31:08","slug":"black-friday-sales-surge-amid-heavy-discounting-on-big-ticket-items-ai-traffic-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/160172\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday sales surge amid heavy discounting on big-ticket items, AI traffic boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 29, 2025 9:40 AM ET<a class=\"font-bold text-share-text\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/XRT#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3AXRT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Street\u00ae SPDR\u00ae S&amp;P\u00ae Retail ETF (XRT)<\/a>, <a class=\"font-bold text-share-text\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/XLY#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3AXLY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">XLY<\/a>, <a class=\"font-bold text-share-text\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/IBUY#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3AIBUY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IBUY<\/a>, <a class=\"font-bold text-share-text\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/ONLN#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3AONLN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ONLN<\/a><a aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"pointer-events-none text-share-text-2\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/WMT#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3AWMT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WMT<\/a>, <a aria-hidden=\"true\" 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href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/MSFT#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3AMSFT\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MSFT<\/a>, <a aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"pointer-events-none text-share-text-2\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/BBY#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3ABBY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBY<\/a>, <a aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"pointer-events-none text-share-text-2\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/SONY#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3ASONY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SONY<\/a>, <a aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"pointer-events-none text-share-text-2\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/KSS#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3AKSS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KSS<\/a>, <a aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"pointer-events-none text-share-text-2\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/DDS#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3ADDS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DDS<\/a>, <a aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"pointer-events-none text-share-text-2\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/DKS#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3ADKS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DKS<\/a>, <a aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"pointer-events-none text-share-text-2\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/NTDOY#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3ANTDOY\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NTDOY<\/a>, <a aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"pointer-events-none text-share-text-2\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/WHR#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3AWHR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WHR<\/a>, <a aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"pointer-events-none text-share-text-2\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/symbol\/META#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csymbol%3AMETA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">META<\/a>By: <a class=\"text-share-text\" href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/author\/sa-editor-clark-schultz#source=section%3Amain_content%7Csection_asset%3Ameta%7Cbutton%3Aauthor_name%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clark Schultz<\/a>, SA News Editor<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image_2238205320.jpg\"   alt=\"Black Friday Sale Tag on Computer Keyboard Keys Symbolizing Online Shopping and E-commerce Discounts\" width=\"1536\" 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The sales tally was up 9.1% year-over-year, above the expectation of most industry watchers.<\/p>\n<p>Gaming console sales were reported to be strong. Top sellers included Nintendo Switch 2, Xbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 29, 2025 9:40 AM ETState Street\u00ae SPDR\u00ae S&amp;P\u00ae Retail ETF (XRT), XLY, IBUY, ONLNWMT, COST, M, TGT,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-160172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}