Black Friday shopping frenzy moves from stores to online

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.