Black Friday Explained

Black Friday Explained

Just what is Black Friday. Legend has it was coined in the 60′s when merchants were in the red and they created big specials after Thanksgiving to put them back into the black. The way the economy is going, we are going to need a Black Week to get many merchants back into black.

In the 1960′s, police in Philadelphia griped about the congested streets, clogged with motorists and pedestrians, calling it “Black Friday.” In a non-retail sense, it also describes a financial crisis of 1869: a stock market catastrophe set off by gold spectators who tried and failed to corner the gold market, causing the market to collapse and stocks to plummet.

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10 Surprising Brand Owners

You would be surprised who owns who at your local supermarket. There are some products you would figure have nothing in common. An example would be Clorox purchasing Burt’s Bees lip balm in 2007 and most of us would not be wise to it. From chocolate bar companies like Mars who also own Pedigree Petfoods. Many suppliers practically own aisle space in many stores with a motley collection of different products unrelated to each other. See more>>

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People of Walmart

People of Walmart

PeopleofWalmart.com was created in August 2009 by three friends Adam Kipple, Andrew Kipple and Luke Wherry. A year later and many hits they are going book form. The creatures of the night do shop also and most of them want deals like you and me. They shop at Walmart in their finest glory. You are the audience and perhaps the subject too if you shopped at Walmart in your worst moment or maybe it’s just the way you express your uniqueness.

It’s not everywhere that you can shop for milk at 10 a.m. next to a 400-pound mother of six wearing a pink tube top, leopard tights, and hooker heels. Where else can one go to pick up underwear at 3 o’clock in the afternoon and spot the greatest mullet of all time? And that same guy has not only a supreme mullet, but is wearing a mustard-stained wife beater (which only accents his extreme amount of body hair) and camo pants. And yet, amazingly, it’s also the same place you might bump into your favorite actor, actress, musician, or thoroughly underserved famous-for-no-reason reality star. You never know whom you will encounter, but you know you’ll never forget it.

Ikea China Lizard Lounges

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Ikea setup shop in China in 1999 and is a marvel to shoppers who want to emulate North American lifestyle. Some have turned the store into an outing of sorts. Some lounge around for up to five hours, feasting on cheap hot-dogs and resting their bellies on couches and lying on beds like it were their homes. Ikea management are accustomed to the strange behavior and let residents hang around and snap pictures of families sitting on furniture that they will never purchase. It’s more of a curiosity for many who cannot afford such luxuries. It’s as near as some will come to the American dream. Some will dream for hours as they sleep on Ikea furniture. Try to do this in North America. The only thing we would get free would be flying lessons.