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A friend's Facebook update from a mall in the San Francisco Bay Area this morning -- at 7 AM:

This is my first black Friday experience & it is a trip. Kind of sad. Fights, tears, desperation. Ah, the spirit of the season!

I don't know why she decided to do this to herself this year, but I have an inkling it has something to do with her kids getting old enough to want shit they see on TV.

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 10:56:28 AM EST
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Re: God bless America, baby (none / 0)

I'm pretty sure that most European countries have rules that forbid advertising something at a discount for 6 hours. The German appliance megastores sometimes get slapped on the fingers (not nearly often and hard enough, by the way) for offering this or that at a discount when they have less than two days worth of stock, which is required by law.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 at 11:21:27 AM EST
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