Sales online the day after Thanksgiving surged 22 percent from a year earlier as U.S. consumers, buoyed by higher employment and lower gasoline prices, flocked to computers and smartphones to hunt bargains.
Bloomberg: Black Friday online sales jump 22 percent as jobs spur shopping
Black Friday shopper Umer Gonzalez loads his Samsung big screen TV after purchasing it at a Walmart in Fairfax, Virginia, on Nov. 28, 2014.
