Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from November, 2013

Is "Black Friday" Gone Forever?

It's official - Holiday shopping is here!! Malls have decked their halls, retailers are playing one of over a hundred versions of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", and the retail heavyweights are announcing their "Black Friday" plans....errr dare I say "Black Thursday"?!  WalMart confirmed their earliest Black Friday specials won't be found on Friday at all, but at 6pm on Thanksgiving day, with many others following at 8pm. For me, this will mark my 20th retail holiday season.  Watching how this time has evolved through the years has been very interesting.  When I started, I thought people would eat their Thanksgiving dinners early so they could induce their tryptophan coma early enough to wake up in time for the early bird specials - at 6am Friday morning.  Then online shopping offered an alternative to risking your life in the malls for shopping safely from your couch - now we have "Cyber Monday" (insiders tip - most retailers still