The hottest new concert venue near you might just be a movie theater
Marketplace All-in-One
Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
If you couldn’t make it to some of the biggest concerts of the year, no problem. Beyoncé’s Renaissance film comes out this Friday, which follows Taylor Swift’s highly popular Eras Tour film. The flicks provide another boost to the artists but also give movie theaters the chance to profit off of ticket sales and themed food or merchandise. Also: hopes for Giving Tuesday and a preview of holiday toy sales.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Sabrie Beneschoor with Marketplace. |
| 0:02.3 | Are you looking for a way to show off your love of Marketplace this winter? |
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| 0:23.4 | May I ask what you're donating for the holiday? |
| 0:28.2 | Non-profits doing good work, neat cash. |
| 0:31.2 | I'm David Brancaccio in New York. Shoppers spent 7.5% more on this last Friday |
| 0:37.1 | after Thanksgiving than the year before, factoring in the 3.5% inflation in the year through |
| 0:42.1 | October. That is still a gain. |
| 0:44.8 | And an outfit called Adobe Analytics calculates that shoppers spent more than 12 billion dollars |
| 0:49.6 | on cyber yesterday, the day you're marked for online shopping, that's shaping up to be a one-day all-time |
| 0:55.8 | record for online sales. |
| 0:58.0 | Today has been dubbed giving Tuesday, and while upper-income people have been donating |
| 1:02.2 | a lot more than prior to pandemic, |
| 1:04.0 | donations in general had been running a bit cold going into today. |
| 1:08.0 | Marketplace's Nova Safo has more. |
| 1:10.0 | The trend line for non-profits has not been good this year. |
| 1:14.0 | In a survey over the summer, seven out of ten organizations said they're likely to end the year |
| 1:18.4 | with fewer donations or about the same as in 2022. And 2022 was not a good year either. Donations declined for the |
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