Consumers were out in full force Black Friday to get the best deals possible, and sales trends indicated that they certainly did. According to leading consumer and retail information provider The NPD Group's weekly point-of-sale (POS) data* for the week ending November 25, consumer technology retail sales** grew nearly 12 percent to over two billion dollars. While that's a good showing for the start of the holiday season, and year-over-year dollar volume is growing, it's doing so at a slower rate.