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Black Friday Yields $10.6 Billion

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Business, Money, Video

That’s a 3% rise from last year, but according to the following report…that’s apparently not enough to make retailers happy.

AP has more…

So what is enough for retailers? I’m just thinking they should be happy that sales didn’t drop from last year to this one. That is unless they priced stuff significantly under what they should have to get people in the door and took a beating on it.

More as it develops…

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One Response to “Black Friday Yields $10.6 Billion”

kranky kritter Says:
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:59 am
This data point seems awfully inconvenient for the drain-circling narrative we keep getting clobbered with every day, doesn’t it?

So there’s only one thing to do: dismiss it. I’m sure the sky is still falling. I read it in the paper and hear it on the news every night. Must be true.

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