Black Friday Sales Surge as Shoppers Stick to the Web [REPORT]

This year, shoppers avoided early-morning lines, customer stampedes at megastores and Black Friday-related deaths by browsing deals online.

U.S. shoppers put aside their trypophan hangovers, and increased online sales by 17.4% on Thanksgiving Day and by 20.7% on Black Friday compared to last year, according to IBM's Digital Analytics Benchmark Trends Report.

Bargain hunters tackled Black Friday on the web with their

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