First reports indicate sales weak over Black Friday
Total retail sales edged up just 0.5 percent to $10.66 billion on Black Friday, which is often the single-busiest day of the holiday shopping season, ShopperTrak said on Saturday.
Online retailers, however, enjoyed an 11 percent jump in Black Friday spending to $595 million, with Amazon.com and Wal-Mart Stores Inc's Walmart.com enjoying the biggest surges in traffic, according to comScore.
Online sales went up, everything else went down slightly. Not a good sign for those hoping a strong Christmas season would help drive the economy.
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