1. I saw the same headline - the article stated that there were record SEASON sales, not Black Friday sales. The headline did not match the content of the article.
2. Record revenue, not necessarily record units sold. To be expected with inflation.
3. Savvy online shoppers may be bundling purchases to reduce shipping costs. Waiting for a seasonal sale to buy holiday gifts as well as detergent, snacks and underwear may be quite prudent.
Finally, increased sales revenue does not necessarily equate to more jobs. It can, but by no means does it have to.
Which is already happening. This is why stock buy-backs, IPO-less/private companies and private equity rule the future.
This "wealth" will NOT come from government subsidies or UBI. It will stay where it is, with enough income doled out to the masses to keep the supply/demand economy chugging along.
Isn't it just a matter of having each consumer use their own offset? I mean if the queue table is sequentially or time-indexed, the consumer just provides a smaller/earlier key to accomplish the offset?
(Maybe I'm missing something here?)
So, rather than Big Brother being government-imposed monitoring paid for by all taxpayers, the concerned citizenry is flipping the bill for the devices, network connectivity and electricity. Fascinating.