A week after the 2018 Black Friday edition, let’s take a look back to what happened in the e-commerce industry last week ¹. And it seems that this time, Amazon was not the winner.
French merchants ² are the clear winners of this 2018 Black Friday edition. Cdiscount and Fnac-Darty performed noticeably well: they respectively gained 5 and 7 percentage points of market shares compared to their respective regular market shares.
This year, sales started on the Monday 19 November, 4 days before the actual Black Friday. But it did not impact noticeably the sales breakdown across the days of the Black Friday period, consumption still peaked on the Friday: the 2018 edition of Black Friday concentrated 28% of the total sales generated on the entire Black Friday period.
During the 2018 edition of Black Friday Days, High-Tech remained the top category in terms of sales: it represented 43% of the total sales, and gained 7 percentage points compared to the 2017 edition. Fashion is quickly progressing (+5pp compared to 2017), winning shares over Games & Toys but especially over IT.
Benefiting from advantageous discounts during Black Friday, customers were driven towards significantly more expensive items than during normal periods. Items priced 200€ and more represented 44% of the revenue generated during the Black Friday sales; it is a 14 percentage point increase compared to the month before.
For the second year in a row, the ‘Fabrique à Histoires’ by Lunii has been the best selling product in volume. Among the top-ten products bought during the Black Friday, four were High-tech items, reflecting the category’s overwhelming dominance.
Thanks to Capucine Columelli
(1): The merchants considered for this study are: Amazon, Cdiscount, Asos, Boulanger, Darty, Fnac, La Redoute, PriceMinister, Sarenza, ShowroomPrivé, Vente Privée and Zalando.
(2): In this article:
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