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WATCH: People Are Just Skipping Thanksgiving Now to Get in Line Early for...
Thanksgiving is a time to gather around with your family and say what you’re thankful for. But for a lot of people, it’s about getting a jump start on Christmas shopping. Yes, as if to say “I am...
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Black Friday 2013: Walmart Becomes #Brawlmart
It’s that time of year again: Black Friday. Millions of people gather at various retail stores to push and shove their way to a $98 TV set or a 50%-off iPad. As usual, things got ugly in some places....
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Kinky Boots Fires Back at Macy’s Parade Haters with Black Friday Shopping Spree
Kinky Boots won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Musical, so of course the show would be one of the four major Broadway shows to perform at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, right? Apparently...
View ArticleCelebs Help Push #BlackOutBlackFriday Boycott for Michael Brown
While many Americans rush to big box stores for Black Friday deals today, many others have chosen to stay home in a form of protest over the killing of Michael Brown and other police shooting that...
View ArticleMust-See Late Night Clip: Kids Reenact First Black Friday on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Leave it to Jimmy Kimmel Live to employ a bunch of elementary school-aged actors to shed some light on the history of the season’s most cherished holiday tradition, Black Friday. Jimmy Kimmel invited...
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Protesters for Laquan McDonald Plan Chicago March to Disrupt Black Friday
As Black Friday continues to promote the holidays with rampant consumerism and violent frenzies across America, the shopping areas of Chicago are facing additional pressure as protests continue over...
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WATCH: Woman Snatches Veggie Steamer From Child During Black Friday Mayhem
While this morning’s battle in a Kentucky food court has set the standard for today’s shopping frenzy, a new video has started circulating as proof that Black Friday brings out the worst consumer...
View ArticleWATCH: Wild Brawl Between Shoppers Forces Alabama Mall to Close
JUST IN: @HooverPD say they responded to several reports of fights at the Galleria Thursday night. Here’s video of one incident outside the Buckle store. More on @WBRCnews this morning....
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Watch: Super-Genius Videographer Mocks ‘Idiot’‘Zombie’ Black Friday Shoppers
On this fine Sienna Saturday, as the consumer orgy of Black Friday, and its attendant media coverage, fades from memory, there is one more clip of Black Friday shoppers that deserves a place in the...
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Great Moments In Journalism: Is “Black Friday” Racist?
Here’s the answer to the headline: no. But Joy Behar wondered on The View yesterday if describing the day after Thanksgiving as “Black Friday” was actually racist – and Whoopi Goldberg told her it...
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Black Friday Shoppers Waste No Time In Delivering Cliche Stampede
Combine a crowd of holiday-stuffed bargain hunters, the lure of first-come-first-served monster savings, a stunt midnight start time, and a standard-sized set of doors…and you get the annual recipe for...
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Woman Attacks Fellow Black Friday Shoppers With Pepper Spray At Wal Mart
A crowd of early Black Friday birds at a Los Angeles-area Wal Mart got more than they bargained for as they tried to gobble up great deals Thursday night: chemical warfare. According to reports, up to...
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Reason You Should Stay Home Reading Mediaite: Terrifying Black Friday Footage
Alright, let’s break it down here. Y’know, shoot straight and talk honestly. There probably isn’t going to be any big news today. As much as it frequently seems otherwise, media folk are people too and...
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Police Blast Pepper Spray At Unruly Black Friday Shoppers Inside North...
Police officers allegedly doused Black Friday shoppers in pepper spray in an attempt to calm a disturbance inside a North Carolina Wal-Mart, arresting one and sending a child to the hospital. The...
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Why America Is Doomed: We Riot For Waffle Irons And Disgraced Football Coaches
Even as political violence rocks Tahrir Square, epicenter of the Arab Spring, and the Occupy Wall Street movement struggles to retain its momentum, a decidedly lower-stakes variety of unrest has taken...
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Online Black Friday Sales Up 20 Percent From Last Year
This year’s Black Friday was marred by isolated incidents involving pepper spray and near-death experiences over waffles. In West Virginia, a man died in the middle of shopping and eyewitnesses claim...
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Republican Ruh-Roh: Economy Looking Up Despite Obstruction
The news that unemployment fell to 8.6% in November, the lowest level since March of 2009, is sure to be greeted by a predictable mix of celebration and derisive parsing, but behind the scenes,...
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Macy’s CEO Not Sure If Calm Black Friday Stores Due To ‘The Crowd That We...
It’s Black Friday, which means two things for cable news: an endless loop of unhinged shopper b-roll, and segment after segment of infomercials masquerading as retail executive “interviews” (with...
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Online Shopping Explodes to New High as In-Store Black Friday Traffic ‘Thin’...
Retail sales for Black Friday reflected the worldwide trend in everything from how people eat and work to how they go to school or buy toilet paper: a massive shift to online. The Associated Press...
View ArticleGeorge Floyd Killer Derek Chauvin Stabbed In Prison On Black Friday
Derek Chauvin — former police officer and current convicted murderer of George Floyd — was stabbed in prison on Black Friday, but was not killed. Chauvin was convicted in April of 2021 on three counts...
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