<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b9eac737-132c-4a75-983e-6649577e570b/D0D38BFF-D2A5-4CBC-85FD-A17DDAC10A99/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2008/10/03/62-million-consumers-begin-holiday-shopping-before-black-friday/?camp=rssfeed&src=mbp&type=textlink" href="http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2008/10/03/62-million-consumers-begin-holiday-shopping-before-black-friday/?camp=rssfeed&src=mbp&type=textlink" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mediabuyerplanner.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2008/10/03/62-million-consumers-begin-holiday-shopping-before-black-friday/?camp=rssfeed&src=mbp&type=textlink"><H2>62 Million Consumers Begin Holiday Shopping before Black Friday</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2008/10/03/62-million-consumers-begin-holiday-shopping-before-black-friday/?camp=rssfeed&src=mbp&type=textlink"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.mediabuyerplanner.com/img/0A332582-15EA-4FFE-BDE5-DB3076EB2D97" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2008/10/03/62-million-consumers-begin-holiday-shopping-before-black-friday/?camp=rssfeed&src=mbp&type=textlink"><P>More than one in three holiday shoppers - or 62.3 million adult consumers - report they begin holiday shopping before Thanksgiving, <A href="http://www.mediamark.com/PDF/MRIPR_092508_Holiday%20Shopping.pdf">according to</A> (pdf) new data from <A href="http://www.mediamark.com/">Mediamark Research & Intelligence</A> (MRI), <A target="_blank" href="http://www.retailerdaily.com/entry/62-million-consumers-begin-holiday-shopping-before-black-friday/">reports</A> Retailer Daily. <SPAN id="more-19017"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2008/10/03/62-million-consumers-begin-holiday-shopping-before-black-friday/?camp=rssfeed&src=mbp&type=textlink"><P>Just under 36 percent of holiday shoppers say they begin shopping between Thanksgiving and December 15, and close to 26 percent say they start their shopping between December 16 and 23, MRI’s 2008 Omnibus Recontact Study found.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2008/10/03/62-million-consumers-begin-holiday-shopping-before-black-friday/?camp=rssfeed&src=mbp&type=textlink"><P>Approximately 2 percent of holiday shoppers don’t begin their holiday shopping until Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2008/10/03/62-million-consumers-begin-holiday-shopping-before-black-friday/?camp=rssfeed&src=mbp&type=textlink"><P>(View <A href="http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/62-million-consumers-begin-holiday-shopping-before-black-friday-6257/mri-holiday-shopping-start-shopper-profile-2008-omnibus-studyjpg/">tables</A> of early holiday shopping intentions and early shopper profiles.)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2008/10/03/62-million-consumers-begin-holiday-shopping-before-black-friday/?camp=rssfeed&src=mbp&type=textlink"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Almost 62 percent are women, who are 18 percent more likely than holiday shoppers in general to begin shopping before Thanksgiving.</LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D0D38BFF-D2A5-4CBC-85FD-A17DDAC10A99/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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