November 2, 2009

Black Friday: Busiest Saturday for Shopping!


It's November, which means we're working up to Black Friday, busiest Saturday of the year for holiday shopping.

Stores and business are hoping for an extra busy Black Friday this year, with shoppers taking advantage of sales and deals for Christmas presents, and helpin get the economy going again. Many stores will start Black Friday off with midnight sales, and hope to see shoppers rushing in like the bulls of Pamplona once again. Although hopefully nobody will get trampled, as has happened in the past. Craven consumerism is okay in moderation but let's not go too crazy!

Black Friday: Busiest Saturday for Shopping!
npr

Today is "Black Friday," a term used by merchants who've been in the "red" most of the year to describe their hopeful outlook for the holiday shopping season. NPR's Tony Cox gets a holiday retail outlook from Brett Pulley, senior editor at Forbes magazine and a specialist on entertainment finance and electronic retail...

Black Friday: Busiest Saturday for Shopping!

Posted at November 2, 2009 3:59 AM
Comments

What is wrong with an economy that relies on a few days a year to make profits? Eveything, that's what.
Instead of making things people really need, why not restructure the economy (no doubt it will take a few decades) to provide for our immediate needs first, and to use renewable resources while doing it. Half the people in the world don't have what we have. Instead of crying about the cycles of the marketplace, we should make a global economy that will see everyone having a moderately
comfortable life. Of course we will have to expect less, but what will happen when the energy crunch happens? We don't have limitless supplies of oil.

Posted by: henry de graaf at November 6, 2009 10:20 PM

What is wrong with an economy that relies on a few days a year to make profits? Eveything, that's what.
Instead of making things people really need, why not restructure the economy (no doubt it will take a few decades) to provide for our immediate needs first, and to use renewable resources while doing it. Half the people in the world don't have what we have. Instead of crying about the cycles of the marketplace, we should make a global economy that will see everyone having a moderately
comfortable life. Of course we will have to expect less, but what will happen when the energy crunch happens? We don't have limitless supplies of oil.

Posted by: henry de graaf at November 6, 2009 10:21 PM

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