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Black Friday – What a fitting title

by Eric D. Brown on November 28, 2008 · View Comments

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Today (the Friday after Thanksgiving) has been given the name Black Friday…and now it is really fitting.

Just ran across a news article about a Wal-Mart worker who died from being trampled to death when opening the store. Apparently the worker was trampled when the shoppers broke down the door to get into the store.

Is it really worth it?

Do we really need to get ‘the best deal’ so badly that we are willing to put ourselves and others in harm’s way?

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Eric is a Consultant, Entrepreneur and Doctoral Student focused on helping organizations cross the chasm that exists between Business & IT. Eric writes extensively about technology, strategy, people and projects at http://ericbrown.com. In addition to this blog and his consulting work, Eric is an avid & passionate photographer and writes about photography, shares photographs and reviews products at Photography Minute.

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Hi Mary K. Williams:

thanks for the link...great article.

Mary K. Williams

I agree. I've also hated that name. Although I can somewhat commiserate with the origin (I worked in retail in the past), it angers me to see the media perpetuate "Black Friday". Sure, holiday shopping can be a major pain, but we really do it to ourselves. A few years ago, I wrote something about this very "frustrating concept".