Black Friday-Cyber Monday results are in

Black Friday-Cyber Monday: Ecommerce up 9%, record traffic

Results for the entire five-day Thanksgiving weekend shopping period are starting to come in, and a consensus seems to be forming that ecommerce sales grew in 2022 despite all of the headwinds. Check out the numbers and holiday shopping trends from Salesforce, NRF, Shopify and BigCommerce.

AWS gets data clean rooms for analytics data

Amazon Web Services is unveiling a host of new releases at this week’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. For advertising and marketing, the cloud giant is launching clean rooms where organizations can analyze data without exposing raw and identifying information. – TechCrunch

Burnout is real. Create a team that welcomes recharging

In this Q&A, Because Market COO Heidi Robinson talks to Tapcart CEO Eric Netsch about leadership, and unplugging. “Monitoring workloads isn’t always possible, so we are trying to create an environment where people feel comfortable taking the time they need to recharge,” Robinson said.

US consumer confidence falls to lowest level since July

According to the Conference Board, the Consumer Confidence Index for November was down slightly from October, and fell to its lowest level since inflation’s peak. “The combination of inflation and interest rate hikes will continue to pose challenges to confidence and economic growth into early 2023,” said the Conference Board’s Lynn Franco. – CNN

CEO hires at Sephora, Revolution Beauty, US Foods

In this week’s On the Move, top executives are joining brands, retailers and tech companies in beauty, food and more. Amid the handful of hiring moves, companies that had interim CEOs in 2022 now have permanent leaders heading into 2023.

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