Monday, November 30, 2015
Victoria Garza "Target and PayPal Sites Report Problems on Cyber Monday"
Some of the sites used on cyber monday experienced temporary failures caused by the overload of people using them. Foot Locker, Groupon, and Victoria's Secret were just some of the online stores that experienced these brief outages. On Monday, Target explained that they were experiencing their biggest glitch in response to a previously annouced 15% discount.
Black Friday shopping has been a major savings day for a large number of families and individuals. These days it is absolute chaos trying to shop for good deals. There are always insane stories stemming from trips to stores on Black Friday. With our increased use and developement of technology and the internet, it's only logical that we begin shifting our shopping to the online world. Online shopping is easier because you are able to avoid the chaos of the stores and shop in the comfort of your home. It is kind of ironic that we shifted to the online world to avoid the troubles of shopping in real life yet we are still facing problems and back ups caused by the amount of people wanting to save money. This could be similar to the California Gold Rush where large numbers of people migrated to California (the stores) in search of gold (good deals).
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/technology/target-paypal-website-cyber-monday.html?ref=us
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Nicholas Godfrey Period 8:
ReplyDeletePlease, everybody, I'm begging you, let's just keep Black Friday to the way it was meant to be. Black Friday was meant to have crazy sales in person and only on that one day a year!!! It wasn't meant to be a two week sale that most people just do online anyways. That's also a very cool way to connect it to history!!!
I don't see why we need to extend this one day (black Friday) to more than that. Personally I love shopping online and I hope that technology will improve to keep up with the growing demands of strictly online sales.
ReplyDeletei personally feel much more comfortable online shopping where there is not immediate stress or risk of getting trampled. its good though that technology is continuing to accommodate to our convinces.
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