(update: even 5 year olds are getting into the act. Friday I was at Best Buy and overheard the following, “But Daddy, it’s Black Friday… Pleeeeeeeease get it for me before the price goes up!”)
Friends and readers: I hope you all had a happy and safe Thanksgiving. I also hope you had a great Black Friday and a killer Cyber Monday despite our current economic circumstances.
I seem to remember not too long ago when Black Friday was…
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Dear Readers. I wish you all a happy healthy Thanksgiving. Be safe, have fun and enjoy your turkey.
As I prepare to take a holiday break, I wanted to let you know how thankful and grateful I am for you and your readership this past year.
And to my readers who are looking to Black Friday and Cyber Monday to make or break your fiscal years, I wish you much luck and customers! My family and I will be doing our parts to stimulate the economy this year. Thanks for hanging tough!
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Who knows where we’ll be a year from now, but at least for this season of store and online retail bargains, the killer sales are already going on. Although there will still be big store sales this Friday and probably even bigger ones online next Monday, the big retailers already began to duke it out for the lowest prices earlier this month.
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Just when I thought it was safe to believe in the U.S. Postal Service, I find out this lovely tidbit of information: Despite Postmaster General John Potter’s grand statement (or was it a grandstanding statement) that there’d be no postal rate increase in 2010, there’s a giant loophole.
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