It used to be that Black Friday shopping would conjure up images of long lines and cash registers going ka-ching. Now we've got a real-time visual of the shopping mania.
Canadian e-commerce company Shopify has launched a weirdly entertaining real-time map that highlights transactions at the more than 600,000 merchants using its platform. The tool keeps a running tab of both sales and orders per minute.
At about 3:30 p.m. PT on Black Friday, sales per minute ranged from about $430,000 to $450,000, whereas earlier in the day sales per minute were over $500,000. Orders per minute at press time are hovering at about 5,200.
Shopify didn't immediately respond to a request for more information about the tool.
Now let me go spend some money.
It used to be that Black Friday shopping would conjure up images of long lines and cash registers going ka-ching. Now we've got a real-time visual of the shopping mania.
Canadian e-commerce company Shopify has launched a weirdly entertaining real-time map that highlights transactions at the more than 600,000 merchants using its platform. The tool keeps a running tab of both sales and orders per minute.
At about 3:30 p.m. PT on Black Friday, sales per minute ranged from about $430,000 to $450,000, whereas earlier in the day sales per minute were over $500,000. Orders per minute at press time are hovering at about 5,200.
Shopify didn't immediately respond to a request for more information about the tool.
Now let me go spend some money.