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25.11.10 06:03
It was in 1966 (or thereabouts—the Internet is not precise) when retail lore was born. On the day after Thanksgiving, America's rapacious consumer hordes, drawn in by sales and dancing Santa dolls, freed from work and family obligations for a rare weekday, would head downtown and buy enough stuff to move stores from the red to the black. It was dubbed "Black
Friday."
Decades later, the myth has been punctured. (The Internet is good at that.) Black Friday is a lie, saySnopes and other sites. It might be the busiest shopping day of the year, but it is not the biggest. mehr bei slate.com
