Hold everything! The
national obsession with shopping – which gave birth to the retail bonanza best
known as Black Friday – may be in the process of victimizing itself with its
own success.
Initial indications suggest that irresistible bargains are
luring record numbers of U.S. shoppers into stores such as Macy’s, Best Buy and
Target. Still, a backlash is widening
over the encroachment of holiday sales on Thanksgiving.
Amidst the obligatory
swell crowds that come along with Black Friday, stressed out store workers are
clamoring for relief from the stress of the holiday shopping season.
Accordingly, some observer are becoming more leery about the spillover effects.
Each year, the steady creep of holiday discounting threatens
to transform Black Friday into Black Thursday — and in some cases even earlier
than that. Some stores have begun to use the week before Thanksgiving to lay
the groundwork for the big Thanksgiving rush – the most important shopping day
of the year for retailers. Yet each holiday shopping season appears to see a rise in
clashes between ill tempered shoppers, push back from increasingly aggravated
shop workers, and new strains on retailers themselves……..
Read all about it at http://www.cnbc.com/id/49941824
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