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Black Friday shopping frenzy moves from stores to online

Published Sun, Nov 29, 2015 · 09:50 PM

New York

IN SHOPS across the United States, including the empty malls of Georgia and the "not too crazy" crowds at struggling J Crew, the relative calm that accompanied Black Friday shopping this year belied a frenzy for deals - many of them on the Web.

EBay boasted that it was selling two hoverboards, the "it" item of the season, every minute. Wal-Mart said that it had sold so many movies that it would take close to 3,000 years to watch all of them - many of its sales were online.

Adobe, which tracked more than 180 mil…

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Black Friday shopping frenzy moves from stores to online

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