County officials want shoppers to be savvy during the biggest online spending day of the year.
After millions of people across the nation line up outside retailers for Black Friday, millions more will plop down at their work computers for Cyber Monday, Nov. 26. According to BusinessWeek, digital specialists at the National Retail Foundation created Cyber Monday in 2005. The shopping holiday was meant to entice office employees who were still riding the high of Black Friday and were able to shop from their work computers. It has since become the centerpiece of online holiday shopping. In 2005, shoppers spent a total of $484 million nationwide, comScore reports. In 2011, they spent $1.25 billion, making it the biggest online spending day in history. Retailers like Wal-Mart are going one step further, advertising Cyber Monday bargains …
Small business owners in Annandale are hoping for a profitable shopping season, but not entirely sold.
As the holidays close in, small businesses around Annandale expect a little relief from the financial chokehold the economy has placed around their necks, but not much. “We do better than normal business around this time, but we’re still in a recession,” said Gary Sherfey, owner of Annandale Florist Inc.. Small Businesses account for 97 percent of all businesses in Fairfax County, according to the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, and while Virginia’s small business sector has seen more growth than most states in the recent past, today’s economy is still making it tough to turn a big profit. With the busiest shopping days of the year right ahead of us, many of the small businesses in Annandale are on edge to see if shoppers …
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