11/13/2014 Journal Question

It is crazy to think that there were $9 Billion dollars of sales in just 24 hours. That is like every person in Chine buying $9 worth of goods, which when you think about it is insane. I think it is hard to compare this to Black Friday, however, because it is characterized by going to the store and buying, and the brick-and-mortar black Friday made more than six times that amount, at $57.4 billion dollars. Another thing to consider is how the United States would profit from an online shopping day with a Chinese company. Maybe Ebay or Amazon should do something like this to try and increase sales, and because they are US companies it will boost our economy. I do think that online shopping has become easier and a lot more people prefer to shop from home, but I do not think online shopping will ever be more popular than physically going to a store.