U.S. retailers can be happy about their performance on black Friday, the so-called official start of the holiday retail season.
About one-third of Black Friday shoppers were internet buyers, according to the NRF.
And yet we find ourselves entering another holiday season of familiar Black Friday headlines about shoppers being trampled in a mad effort to get their mitts on the latest offline deal.
I'm one of the latter set: The notion of entering a store on Black Friday is about as appealing to me as a dentist appointment in the dead of winter, but I'm quite happy to pick off some good online deals.
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Still, news of the economy made us wonder about all those reports of robust spending on Black Friday and record-setting online sales during last week's Cyber Monday.
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In Friday trading, Black Box Corp. shares are currently up about 0.5% on the day.
Black Friday 2011 is pretty much over, and in spite of all the talk about and boycotting, people came out in hordes.
The accident happened when a black cab was turning from Great Ancoats Street into Redhill Street at about 22:45 BST on Friday, police said.
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