All of this is not to say that corporations won’t make money on Black Friday and that people are done Christmas shopping. Quite the opposite. Companies have slickly entered the market place of ideas in the tech era, making often even larger profits than when we all got in cars and went to malls. But what we will lack are the fun images.. the frivolity of fights and battle scars cash register wars. Those days are gone.
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The ghosts of Black Fridays past
Black Friday just ain’t what it used to be.
Sure the UK DAILY MAIL picked up on a story from Allentown PA of people fighting in the Lehigh Valley Mall in front of a FOREVER 21 store.. But besides that event, very few other like it made headlines..
Christmas, it would seem, has lost its gusto.. it lost that faint scent of materialism…
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For years it was one of my favorite post-Thanksgiving day traditions: Late at night, going to a mall or local
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NIGHT AT THE RACES! The early bird Black Friday specials begin tonight: Thanksgiving » I am half inclined to not
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Preparations are being made.. Turkeys are getting set for their pardons. Others are plucked and ready for an oven baked
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