{"id":26407,"date":"2019-11-24T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26407"},"modified":"2019-11-24T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T23:30:15","slug":"holiday-shoptimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/holiday-shoptimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Shoptimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/xmastoys.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Top-selling gifts for kids this holiday season are Barbie for girls and LEGO for boys. Several years ago The Lego Group became the world&#8217;s largest toy company by revenue, with sales of $2.1 billion, surpassing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/business\/mattel-malibu-barbie.html\">California-based Mattel<\/a>, which had \u00a0$1.9 billion in sales.<\/p>\n<p>When you drive by some of the older indoor malls the parking lots look like a morgue most of the time. There&#8217;s one such place not far from where I live. I went there once this year to return items I purchased online. I was saddened to see JCPenney store so empty&#8211;the busiest place was the bottom floor where shoppers like me stood in line to pick or return merchandise purchased online.<\/p>\n<p>That same mall this week during the Thanksgiving holiday will be packed with cars! More than 165 million people are expected to shop over five-day weekend with Black Friday the unofficial kickoff to the holidays. Holiday sales represent 20-30% of annual retail sales.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top reasons consumers shop during Thanksgiving\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>88% age 18-24 enjoy the social aspect<\/li>\n<li>65% say \u00a0deals are too good to pass up<\/li>\n<li>28% cite tradition<\/li>\n<li>21% occupy time during Thanksgiving with 17% going with \u00a0friends\/family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/holidays\/christmas-consumer-trends.html\"><strong>Holiday Shopping Trends<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>56% began shopping first week of November<\/li>\n<li>Shoppers plan to spend 4% more this year<\/li>\n<li>Shoppers age 35 -44 spend the most at $1,159<\/li>\n<li>70% look for price &amp; discounts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Black Friday Theme Park Limited Time Offers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*subject to change<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reservations.arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/4\">SeaWorld San Diego &#8211; Buy 1 day, Get 1 Free<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reservations.arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/18\"> Disneyland Resort &#8211; &#8211; Save up to $32<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reservations.arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/10\"> Universal Studios Hollywood &#8211; Save $86 VIP Experience<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reservations.arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/3\">LEGOLAND California Resort &#8211; Save $35 on Hopper ticket, 2nd Day Free<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reservations.arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/11\">Knott&#8217;s Berry Farm Theme Park &#8211; Save $114 on 3+ tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reservations.arestravel.com\/attraction\/single\/5454\/603\">Six Flags Magic Mountain &#8211; Save $26 Off Admission<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-selling gifts for kids this holiday season are Barbie for girls and LEGO for boys. Several years ago The Lego Group became the world&#8217;s largest toy company by revenue, with sales of $2.1 billion, surpassing California-based Mattel, which had \u00a0$1.9 billion in sales. When you drive by some of the older indoor malls the parking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26408,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26407\/revisions\/26408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}