What Bad Economy? Black Friday Sales Up Over 2007

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The nation’s retailers got a much-needed sales boost during Black Friday’s traditional shopathon as consumers, lured by deep discounts, spent nearly 3 percent more than they did last year.Sales on the day after Thanksgiving rose to $10.6 billion, according to preliminary figures released Saturday by ShopperTrak RCT Corp., a Chicago-based research firm that tracks sales [...]ShareThis (http://sharethis.com/item?&wp=2.6&publisher=&title=What+Bad+Economy%3F+ Black+Friday+Sales+Up+Over+2007&url=http%3A%2F%2Fw ww.realchristmas.com%2F2008%2F11%2F29%2Fwhat-bad-economy-black-friday-sales-up-over-2007%2F)


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[SparkleNana]

First of all, remember that figures don't lie -- but liars do figure.

Second - buying seemed to be extremely selective - on carefully chosen deeply discounted items, resulting in much lower profits to the retailers.

We would all LIKE to buy more presents (those of us with jobs, that is) --- but we know that we need to save money for the billions and billions of dollars bailing out our banks.