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Shopify Black Friday sales reach more than $3bn


By Ross Henry Law

Shopify has announced that this year’s global Black Friday sales reached record highs at over $3 billion. The commerce platform said the figures were a 17 per cent increase from 2021, with merchants on Shopify seeing sales peak at $3.5 million per minute. Shopify also recorded a 27 per cent growth in point of sale (POS) sales made by Shopify merchants globally compared to last year’s Black Friday.


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