Tag Archives: Black Friday
Black Friday Deals
The stores are closed here, but the shopping orgy continues online. I figured, if you can’t beat them, why not join them? Black Friday, the day after American Thanksgiving is the biggest shopping day of the year in the U.S. In the last 20 years or so it has spread into Canada, becoming such a […]
Welcome to Boxing Day
There’s been a social shift in the past decade. Boxing Day is no longer what it once was. It used to be the day you got the best shopping deals, as retailers sought to unload leftover merchandise in the post-Christmas period. And they still do that. But the sales don’t seem as big. It’s Black […]
Cultural Assimilation
Back in 2016 I wrote about the way the American shopping frenzy know as Black Friday had crossed the border into Canada. I didn’t see it as a good thing. For Black Friday to become part of the Canadian shopping experience I can understand – the two countries are so close. But why has it […]
Welcome To Black Friday
I seem to have been inundated by Black Friday ads for the entire month. Now that the day is upon us, I have no urge to spend. Oh, I did see an eight-terrabyte portable hard drive advertised online at a very nice price. I don’t have 8T of data though that I want to save, […]
More of a Gray Friday
America is renowned for its cultural exports, whether they be Hollywood films, rock and roll or noir detwective novels. If it is popular in the US, it seems inevitable that it will reach the rest of the world, sooner or later. That goes for the bad as well as the good. Like Black Friday. The […]
Black Friday Wins
Resistance is futile. We have been assimilated. No, it is not Star Trek‘s Borg that have conquered, it is American culture. Although culture is probably too high-brow a word to describe Black Friday. It is a peculiarly American festival, an orgy of consumerism that falls the day after American Thanksgiving. Call it the Protestant version […]
Black Friday Once Again
It seems like only a year since I was spending my time avoiding Black Friday, that orgiastic explosion of consumerism the seizes the United States at this time of year and which is slowly creeping across the border into Canada. For the past three weeks I seem to have been inundated with emails and flyers […]
Black Friday
Today, if you didn’t already know, is the day after the American Thanksgiving holiday, which for the past 50 years or so has been referred to as Black Friday. It is an orgy of consumerism, a shopping frenzy with supposedly lower prices and longer store hours and chaos in shopping malls across the USA. It […]
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