The modern shopping cart — as we know it — didn't always exist, which meant it had to be invented. The How Curious podcast explores the history of the shopping cart.

With the rise of the internet, another shopping holiday was born in 2005: Cyber Monday. It was a marketing term coined by the NRF for online retailers to mirror the shopping craze felt by brick ...

What Black Friday’s history tells us about holiday shopping in 2024 Forecasts estimate that 183.4 million people will shop in U.S. stores and online between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday ...

Whether online or in person, the long weekend surrounding Black Friday is filled with huge markdowns on everything from technology to clothing and household appliances. However, the origin of ...

The holiday shopping season has reached full speed with Black Friday, which kicks off the post-Thanksgiving retail rush. The annual sales event no longer creates the midnight mall crowds or doorbuster ...

The annual sales event no longer creates the midnight mall crowds or doorbuster mayhem of recent decades, in large part due to the ease of online shopping and habits forged during the COVID-19 ...