Friday, November 25, 2011

Black Friday Is More of a Light Gray

Sears trees look real, but ...
Shopper and child.
A pause for lunch at Valley View.
Hanging around for the sale.
"As the shoppers rush home with their treasures ..."

My buddy Heather at Big Lots checkout.
Going down?
Shopping rich at Finks.
The lot at Walmart shows that Black Friday has not fully struck yet.
Teens shop kiosk for handbags.
The promised unruly mobs of the Day After Thanksgiving (more commonly referred to these days as Black Friday) haven't showed up yet and it's mid-afternoon. This morning, traffic more closely resembled a normal Sunday morning than the biggest shopping day of the year.

I had no trouble getting to or parking at Valley View Mall, the largest shopping center in the region, today. The crowds inside were larger than normal, but hardly the savage throngs we've come to expect. I don't know what this says for the economy, but it means shopping is a little less stressful for many.

Now, we need to turn our attention to Small Business Saturday and buy our real Christmas gifts tomorrow in a small store where the people working there know us by name.





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5 comments:

  1. Suni HeflinNovember 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM

    You would have had MUCH different pictures if you had gone out when the REAL Black Friday started ---- Thursday night :) I was out with the rest of the crazy people....we were sleeping Friday.

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  2. UnknownNovember 26, 2011 at 9:41 AM

    Suni: Hope you'll go out today and spend some money with local/small businesses.

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  3. scottNovember 26, 2011 at 12:02 PM

    Isn't it a shame that one holiday, Christmas, has become such an absurdly gigantic commercial monster that it has crept into the space of another holiday, Thanksgiving, and has virtually started to eat it alive?

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  4. scottNovember 26, 2011 at 12:03 PM

    Isn't it a shame that one holiday, Christmas, has become such an absurdly gigantic commercial monster that it has crept into the space of another holiday, Thanksgiving, and has virtually started to eat it alive?

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  5. UnknownNovember 26, 2011 at 2:50 PM

    Scott: Christmas has also eaten Halloween and is pushing Labor Day.
    And that eating has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus or birthdays. It's about buying and selling stuff.

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