Sales increase during Christmas in the US

Published on 
January 4, 2021
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Some interesting trends held true in both the US and Canada when we looked at total sales lifts compared to the previous four weeks. The week before Christmas had a less dramatic increase in sales in 2020 than in 2019. With that said, out of all examined time periods, Christmas Eve had the largest relative increase in sales vs the previous four weeks. It fell on a Thursday this year and a Tuesday last year, both of which are regularly fairly low sales days. This means big potential for period over period growth when last minute shoppers are flooding in!

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