For some reason this is Black Friday, not a celebration of Black culture but simply a day that shoppers buy so much that the bottom line of many stores goes into the black, or profitable.
That's a statistical measurement and not an actual one. I would suspect it describes very few stores. There is no doubt that the Christmas season is very significant to retail and therefore also to their distribution chains. I have fond memories of this time of year going way back to when I worked part time jobs in High School. It was a good way to make a little money, and I do mean little, while being part of a bustling world where everything was sort of critical. I used to work in a shipping department of a high-end clothing store folding clothes for shipping. The customers were often people I had heard of and everything had to get packaged and shipped in time for Christmas delivery.
Thinking back I remember it as a fun time although on the first day the head of the department literally took out a bull whip and cracked it over our heads. I didn't think he would ever actually use it but some of my fellow workers said he would. It provided a buzz and a lot of conversation, an ice breaker and it ended up providing us seasonal workers something in common.
I was impressed with how well he handled it.
Today he would probably be charged with harassment.
That was a different world.
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