This year's early Thanksgiving weekend is messing with retailers' minds. [New York Times]
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Wouldn't lower prices then make better numbers? Lower prices encouraging more buys, making more bucks in the long run?
Sales are based on dollars rather than units sold IIRC. This might explain why so many things went up in price in late November. Just about everything we buy at Target went up in price, few items were on sale and most of the "deals" were not much of a deal.
My guess is they (the retailers mentioned) helped push those November numbers up by jacking the price a bit on everything in the store and not running any sales other than a few black Friday deals. That extra week in November also resulted in many people getting an extra paycheck in November.