If retailers’ Black Friday success is any indication, cash registers will jingle all the way to Christmas — in what may well be the biggest shopping season in years, analysts said yesterday.
Bargain hunters jammed stores and malls right after their Thanksgiving meals, it seemed.
“It was huge,” said Britt Beemer, chairman of America’s Research Group, which giddily reported that this Black Friday’s sales roared past those of 2011.
Retailers saw a 20 percent jump in traffic over last year — with 60.4 percent of the nation’s 100 million families reportedly represented in malls or stores, up from 50.2 percent in 2011.