Black Friday, Cyber Monday

They call it black Friday.



I don't get it, they call the day after Thanksgiving Black Friday.

I wonder if that is because it was pitch black when the stores opened at 3 A.M.?

That's right 3 A.M. except for K-Mart who was open Thanksgiving Day!

You all know K-Mart who is now part of Sears which has their in-store announcements in Spanish!


Thanksgiving, oh what the heck, let's not set aside one day to give thanks, better yet let's add that as a shopping day.

Turkey dinner with family or friends...heck no, we can wave at them from the other side of the mall.

That's right, we can all be thankful the stores were open for us to shop that day.

I love how stupid some people are. I was watching the news in Reno where there were people lined up at Best Buy at 3 P.M. on Thanksgiving afternoon awaiting 3 A.M. the next morning when the store opens to get what the store advertised as a lost leader.

The temperature that night was 11 degrees.

Lost leader, you know, the one where 2 people get a computer that doesn't have much of anything on it or in it but the lunatic shopper that was out in the cold thinks they got a buy.

Or the T.V. that 2 people get that is imported from some country no one had ever heard of and those lucky shoppers are such idiots they buy the extended warranty which costs more than the T.V.

Why not designate the day after Halloween as Black Friday? Yeah, let's get an even earlier start to the shopping madness.

They call it Cyber Monday.

Now the stores have a new gimmick - it's called Cyber Monday. That's when all the online stores put their things on sale the Monday following Black Friday.


Of course a lot of the online stores are the same as the brick and mortar stores you have in your town so now it's Black Friday and Cyber Monday to drag the hard-earned money out of your pocket.

They predict Cyber Monday will have a huge impact on employers as the employees with computer access will be at their desks shopping online instead of actually working.

As the online holiday shopping season officially kicks off Monday, a number of retailers are hosting one-day sales or special offers for the occasion. The Monday after Thanksgiving, tagged "Cyber Monday" by the National Retail Federation, marks the first big online shopping surge for many merchants, as consumers go back to their work computers.

Toys "R" Us Inc. will hold a one-day online sale and rival eToys.com will launch a two-day sale. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will begin five days of online-only sales.

Online jeweler Blue Nile Inc. will give customers 20 percent off purchases paid through PayPal, eBay Inc.'s electronic payment division. Target Corp., Circuit City Stores Inc., Sears Holdings Corp., Crate & Barrel, the Discovery Store and Overstock.com Inc. are among dozens of retailers offering free shipping that day.

As people trickle back to the office after the holiday weekend, another NRF survey polling shoppers online reports that more than half of adults plan to shop at work.

Just in case you missed both those days, rest easy, I'm sure there will be a few more sales before December 25th, the day some still call Christmas.

A tip for those who didn't have enough time to shop and need a gift after the stores close Christmas Eve. Hit the airport, the gift shops will be open!!

And the madness has begun.