Google crunched its data on store traffic patterns and came up some tips on how to melt off the horror of Black Friday shopping rabidness , should you dare to hit the mall on Friday .
You should actually go shopping in the morning.
While the popular image of Black Friday is a mob banging on the gate to get into a store at 5AM , Google found that foot traffic really be given to peak in the good afternoon for the majority of stores . 2 to 4 postmortem is the risky time to be out shopping , so it rede being there either super - too soon or arriving for the eve shift , when most of the pushers and shovers have go home .
And because many stores now open on Thanksgiving Day , Google say that section stores have seen a huge rise in foot traffic on Thanksgiving Eve – especially between 6 - 7pm .
Our tip ? Stay home . Eat a lot of food for thought . Interact with your sept . Watch television . Pet a dog or cat . Do n’t go shit . But if you must …
Many stores are actually less busy on Black Friday than on days closer to Christmas–with one big exception.
According to Google , “ there are many stores that do n’t see their biggest store dealings spikes on Black Friday weekend , ” instead getting that spike on the Saturday before Christmas . The exclusion to this traffic rule is electronics stores .
Electronics and jail cell phone stores definitely do their big business enterprise on the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. after Thanksgiving . Electronics shop see 2x their normal base traffic on Black Friday , and jail cell telephone set store do 1.6x the common . Run . bunk by . So if you do n’t want to fight through fanatic host , preserve your electronics shopping for another day , and pick up other particular if you ’re going out on Black Friday .
Or maybe you could catch some Z’s in . encounter up with admirer . Take in a moving picture ?
Here ’s the whole pretty infographic Google came up with after crunching Black Friday data point . We wish we know in this occult snowy landscape where lines to get into store were only six the great unwashed mysterious .
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