AND THEY’RE….HOME! BLACK FRIDAY BECOMES A SHADOW OF ITS ONE SELF

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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