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Subject: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 29 Nov 13 - 02:15 PM Yesterday, here in Calgary, about 4 pounds of flyers were delivered to our door, advertising sales of all kinds starting on Black Friday. I would guess the same happened in cities across Canada. I wonder how many tons of paper were involved. We pulled the grocery ads and tossed the rest in recycle. Our neighbors are away for the weekend, and if the Chinook wind blows, the papers will be all over the neighborhood. I also received a "selection" of offers in my email that I had to delete before I read the letters I was interested in. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: gnu Date: 29 Nov 13 - 02:34 PM Same here, Q. Just wait until WE in the Great White North have Blackfly Tuesday... the day after we celebrate Her Most Esteemed Majesty Vicky's BDay. There will be rock bottom prices on the environment. Slashing of the prices of oil and gas and pipelines and... well, all the wells and infrastructure INCLUDING the toxic shit. Seriously, the toxic shit will be absolutely given away FREE of charge to anyone who wants it or delivered to everyone whether they want it or not. Of course, the price of fresh air and water will skyrocket BUT... ya can't resist a bargain eh? Especially when Big Oil has a gun pointed at ya. Sorry... just not pleased with all the frackin crap in my neighbourhood that's goin on as I type. Hat and coat. Carry on. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: GUEST,Rapparee Date: 29 Nov 13 - 02:35 PM I just blew away 19 emails offers for today, and I don't know how many over the past week. How many electrons and pixels suffered for greed? As for papers -- the Chicago Tribune had 8.5 pounds of ads alone yesterday. Recycled, every one, including the paper itself when we were done with it. I shan't mention the Gary Post-Tribune and the Times-Vidette. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 29 Nov 13 - 03:57 PM We don't subscribe to local newspapers, so no idea of how many Black Friday inserts, but probably less than half the Chicago trib's. But added to the throw-aways delivered to our door, probably in the same range. In the mail today, my bank (Canadian) enclosed an insert advertising a quicker way to use their credit card when I order from Neiman Marcus, Macy's and other U. S. quality stores. Looking forward to charging Black Friday items to Mongolian stores in the near future. (My Windows red-underlined throw-aways. Throws-away is acceptable. Go figger) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Penny S. Date: 29 Nov 13 - 04:34 PM It's flipping turned up here as well... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Ebbie Date: 29 Nov 13 - 05:07 PM I make it a matter of principle to stay home on all those days. But I do have friends and acquaintances who have shown me all their loot. Stores make it almost impossible to resist. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: GUEST,Ed T Date: 29 Nov 13 - 05:11 PM I am still trying to get over the "white days" sale at Sears. Added to that, I now have Black days to contend with. Any reason for a sale, so they say. Aw days ago I received a letter from the local a local new car dealer that stated "We want your trade in, your used car is in demand! With our new zero new car interest rates, we can offer you a monthly new car payment that does not exceed the car payment you have today". So, I called them and stated "I have no car payment, can you match that with your new car offer"? Sorry, we cannot match that", was the reply. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Van Date: 29 Nov 13 - 06:15 PM It has now arrived in England via Walmart. According to the news a man was arrested after a security guard was assaulted in Bristol and a woman's arm was broken in Belfast. That man must have had some amazing means of transport. Beam me up Scotty! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: ChanteyLass Date: 29 Nov 13 - 08:51 PM Oh, no! Are you telling me Black Friday is becoming international? I am so sorry! Here in the US we are told that after operating in the red all the year, the day after Thanksgiving is when many retail stores begin to make a profit (in the black instead of in the red) because as soon as Thanksgiving is over, people in the US start shopping frantically for Christmas. But what is the justification elsewhere? Canada's Thanksgiving was earlier in the year, and most other countries don't have a Thanksgiving. My Christmas shopping is done. I did spend a little money. I did my laundry at the laundromat (usually done on Thursdays, but it was the holiday), and I bought a bottle of wine for myself for the weekend. I maintain those don't count, because they aren't gifts. Here the alternative name for Black Friday is Buy Nothing Day, and I adhered fairly closely to that. Also, perhaps only in Rhode Island, It is Coat Exchange Day. There are several public places where you can drop off a used coat and take one that someone else has dropped off. And of course you can drop off a coat, or more than one, and take nothing, or take a coat even if you don't have one to drop off. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 30 Nov 13 - 12:18 PM Black Friday started in Philadelphia, where it referred to the heavy vehicular and pedestrian traffic following Thanksgiving. It has come to have several meanings, but now it is the start of the Christmas shopping panic. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Ebbie Date: 30 Nov 13 - 02:51 PM As an example of offers difficult to resist, a friend bought 8 Tablets™ for his employees- they cost just $49.00 each. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 01 Dec 13 - 12:27 PM TabletsTM ?? No such. Tablets are sold by Sony, Samsung Galaxy, Google, etc., the name is not trademarked, most sold as contract phones. Target has a mobile (few apps, no connections) which they try to sell as Tablet. An Australian airline magazine promoter has a tablet made in China, no camera, no USB, no SD card slot, for $60 and under. Name cannot be trademarked as Tablet. Are you in Australia? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Rapparee Date: 01 Dec 13 - 09:45 PM Worse -- Ebbie's in Juneau. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Rapparee Date: 02 Dec 13 - 05:11 PM Having been gone for 11 days, I picked up the mail today. There were nine (9) pounds (4.08 kg) of catalogs alone. I didn't weigh the bills.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: JohnInKansas Date: 03 Dec 13 - 09:11 AM A recent report indicated that there still are three states in the US where "black friday" is ILLEGAL. (Remaining "blue laws" prohibit commercial businesses from being open on a couple of holidays.) A relocation seems tempting when the ads start rolling in, but other conveniences must also be considered. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 03 Dec 13 - 12:29 PM Black Friday is a holiday?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Charmion Date: 03 Dec 13 - 01:19 PM It's the day after Thanksgiving, Q, which so many people book off work that it has become an unofficial holiday, like Christmas Eve. Since tens of thousands of people travel long distances to spend Thanksgiving with kinfolk, many employers give the extra day, making a virtue of a necessity. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 03 Dec 13 - 01:29 PM Yes, but I think John in Kansas was referring to official holidays. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: JohnInKansas Date: 03 Dec 13 - 06:23 PM In the US in recent years the Black Friday sales have typically opened during the afternoon or evening of Thanksgiving day. The three states prohibit "commercial places of business" from being open on Thanksgiving. If they waited until Thanksgiving was over, they'd have to call them "after Thanksgiving" sales instead of the catchy "Black Friday." (And if they waited until the day after to open the sales, people camped in line to rush the doors and beat up the salespeople - and each other - might freeze their **** off in some parts of the US.) John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Black Friday Comes to Canada From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 03 Dec 13 - 07:51 PM The three states only prohibit the sales on Thanksgiving Thursday; stores are free to sell on Black Friday |
