Shopify merchants smash Black Friday-Cyber Monday records with $14.6B in sales, up 27% YoY.

Shopify's merchants recorded a record $14.6 billion in sales over the Black Friday-Cyber Monday weekend, up 27% from last year. The top-selling categories included cosmetics, clothing, activewear, and fitness products. The US, UK, Australia, Germany, and Canada led in sales, with Los Angeles, New York, London, San Francisco, and Miami among the top cities. Shopify's infrastructure handled 2.2 trillion edge requests, 90 petabytes of data, and 14.8 trillion database queries over the weekend.