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Old 05-13-2011, 07:06 PM   #1
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Black Friday, wiki says that's the start of the Christmas shopping period, is that what you mean?
Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the US, when traditionally the stores open insanely early and have insanely great bargains to start the insanely crazy Christmas shopping season. The truth is that the season starts in September now, much to the dismay of those who believe Christmas is overcommercialized.

The day got the name Black Friday because it was so often the first day in the year when store revenues flipped from being in the red to being in the black; the sales from the day often were a store's only chance to begin to make a profit for the year.
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Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the US, when traditionally the stores open insanely early and have insanely great bargains to start the insanely crazy Christmas shopping season. The truth is that the season starts in September now, much to the dismay of those who believe Christmas is overcommercialized.

The day got the name Black Friday because it was so often the first day in the year when store revenues flipped from being in the red to being in the black; the sales from the day often were a store's only chance to begin to make a profit for the year.

That's what I read on wiki...I thought Black whatever was a stock market crash not Christmas shopping season.
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That's what I read on wiki...I thought Black whatever was a stock market crash not Christmas shopping season.
The stock market crash was Black Tuesday... and truthfully, MANY employees who work retail on Black Friday think of it as a huge disaster. It's the day they are forced to accept the worst excesses of human greed, right up to and including crowds trampling people to death just to get the latest geegaws for a cheap price. Black Friday is not for the faint of heart nor, many times, for the sane.
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Ooh Bit I love your story of Thanksgiving through your ages. How fabulous. I'm so sorry you lost everything but so chuffed (very Brit for real happy) you found reason to give thanks no matter what. I guessed that Squanto is the party line...sanitized history in other words. Who's going to post links to the 'real' history for me?
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Here's where I started, Incubus.

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Indian-Givers-Indians-Americas-Transformed/dp/0449904962"]Amazon.com: Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World (9780449904961): Jack Weatherford: Books[/ame]

I've always looked for the good and for the blessings in my life; it's who I am. *soft smile* Thank you for the kudos.
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Here's where I started, Incubus. http://www.amazon.com/Indian-Givers-Indians-Americas-Transformed/dp/0449904962

I've always looked for the good and for the blessings in my life; it's who I am. *soft smile* Thank you for the kudos.

Thank-you Bit...I shall buy and read after my stated summer agenda of Tales of the City. Gracias.
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