Denmark'S "Black Friday" Consumption Innovation Record

Recently, the bank card paction data show that this year's black Friday (November 28th) shopping day, Danish bank card pactions amounted to 4 million 500 thousand, an increase of 12.5% over the same period, the total paction volume amounted to 1 billion 530 million Danish kronor (about 260 million U.S. dollars), an increase of 11.7% over the same period, creating a new consumption record in Denmark.

A spokesman for NETS, a payment card service company, said that Denmark usually had a large volume of pactions every Friday at the end of the month, and the promotion activities on black Friday further stimulated consumption.

Affected by black Friday, then Saturday

It also increased by 110 million dkrona compared with the same period last year.

The impact of Shopping Festival in Denmark increased year by year, and the number of bank card pactions increased from 3 million 200 thousand in 2011 and 2012 to 2013 in 2014 and 400 in 2014.

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Amazon's staff at a cargo warehouse in Germany went on strike on Monday.

Verdi, a local labor union, said that the reason for choosing a strike on busy Christmas Eve is to put pressure on Amazon on the long-term differences between wages and working conditions.

Verdi issued a statement saying that they had organized 450 staff members of the Amazon warehouse in Bad Hersfeld to take part in the strike.

The reason for the strike is Amazon's Christmas season promotions, which greatly increased the number of orders and staff pressure.

Verdi said that if Amazon could not meet the demands of workers, they would remain under pressure on Amazon.

Amazon says most of its employees in Germany have not left their jobs and are still working hard to meet consumer demand.

Amazon also said consumers' orders would not be affected by the strike activity, because the company could call on 28 other freight warehouses in 7 other European countries at any time.

Amazon has 9 warehouses in Germany, about 10000 workers, and Germany is the second largest market after the United States, where there are more than 10000 Christmas and temporary workers there.

Verdi hopes that Amazon can raise the pay level of warehouse workers, at least in line with the labor contract negotiation standards of the German postal industry and retail industry employees.

To achieve this goal, Verdi has organized many strikes in Germany since the beginning of 2013.

The Union has now appealed to Amazon warehouse staff in Leipzig, Germany, to join the strike march on Monday afternoon.

But Amazon also rejected Verdi's request many times, saying that warehouse workers belong to the logistics workers, and they have already got the salary above the average wage level of the industry.

After the German warehouse workers launched a strike, Amazon shares fell 2.02% to 306.32 dollars on Monday.

TheStreet Ratings, the US rating agency, has downgraded Amazon's "sell" rating to D+.