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Thread #75989 Message #1585072
Posted By: JohnInKansas
18-Oct-05 - 01:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: 'Black Friday' What is this?
Subject: RE: BS: 'Black Friday' What is this?
The "retail" definition has to be questioned (but not seriously) since in many areas of the US, for at least a couple of decades, the "Christmas stuff" hits the shelves in mid to early AUGUST. A few places recently have started setting up for Christmas during the last week of July.
Quite recently one local retailer announced that he was going to "wait until October" because with all the Xmas stuff going on sale in August "his kids got bored" with the whole idea of Christmas by the time it got here. The local newsrag interviewed him about this radical concept and ran the story on the front page....
John