{"id":9279,"date":"2019-12-02T22:43:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=9279"},"modified":"2019-12-02T22:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T22:43:32","slug":"journalism-last-week-they-said-economic-fears-might-derail-the-holidays-this-week-they-report-record-breaking-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/12\/02\/journalism-last-week-they-said-economic-fears-might-derail-the-holidays-this-week-they-report-record-breaking-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism: Last week they said economic fears might derail the holidays, this week they report record breaking sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/11\/27\/journalism-fears-of-economic-recession-could-derail-the-holiday-shopping-season-marketwatch\/\">Journalism: \u201cFears of economic recession could derail the holiday shopping season \u2013 MarketWatch\u201d \u2013 SocialPanic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This week: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2019\/12\/01\/black-friday-shoppers-spent-more-store-online-over-weekend\/4346469002\/\">Black Friday shopper spent more in stores, broke records online over the weekend<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Americans spent more money Black Friday shopping in 2019 than ever before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Both online and in-store sales figures increased over last year as consumers grow more comfortable with shopping on their smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Brick-and-mortar sales were up 4.2% over last year, according to an annual holiday spending report from <a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstdata.com\/spendtrend\/2019\/black_friday_infographic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t-l=\"|inline|intext|n\/a\">First Data, now\u00a0Fiserv.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Most news today is speculation and assertions, and rarely reporting on past events. The first story was speculation, already shown as incorrect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the news <strike>reported<\/strike> speculated that &#8220;fears of an economic recession could derail the holiday season&#8221;. This week, that speculation is already old news as Black Friday broke shopping records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,17,29,39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assertion","category-business","category-facts","category-media","category-fake-news","category-fictional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}