Black Friday really did offer up some amazing deals, the biggest of which came a little late when David Stern and Billy Hunter gift wrapped an NBA season with the
instructions "do not open until Christmas" early Saturday morning. ...Lee Siegel says Black Friday's consumerism has become a human-rights issue. After following the Occupy Wall Street protests for months, I was ready for the violence. It happened suddenly, as violence always does. First there was the menacing hush, ...By Beth Duff-Brown and Juliet Williams AP / November 26, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO—Anti-Wall Street
protesters took their message about corporate greed to Black Friday shoppers, staging demonstrations in commercial areas around California on one of the And more people already are shopping online. By midday on Thanksgiving, online sales were 20
percent over results from the same period a year ago, according to data from IBM Coremetrics. Black Friday shoppers say they were lured by the deals. ...After following the Occupy Wall Street protests for months, I was ready for the violence. It happened suddenly, as violence always does. First there was the menacing hush, then the sound of shoving and scraping and muffled thuds. The cries pierced the chilly night air as if the people in the crowd—some of them camped out in the same few square feet for more than 12 hours—had been screaming inside their heads like that all their lives. The atmosphere filled with pepper spray, people staggered, their faces red and swollen. Shots were fired. Everyone stampeded toward the opening doors and … the sales began
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