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Feedback from December 4 and Beyond
Black Friday Economy Americans, the Associated Press reports, spent a record $11.8 billion online on “Black Friday” (the day after Thanksgiving) this year ... and another record $6.4 billion on Thanksgiving itself. Physical, in-store traffic for Black Friday also ticked up versus the previous week, although shopping for deals has strongly moved online in recent years.
What caught my eye about the story, though, was the headline, which suggests the record sales occurred “despite wider economic uncertainty.” “Despite?” More likely, in my opinion, “because.” With inflation still running at about…
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