Black Friday – What a fitting title

November 28, 2008 By Eric D. Brown 2 Comments

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 D. Brown is a Dallas based Technology Consultant, and Entrepreneur focused on helping businesses and non-profits merge business, marketing and technology. He writes extensively about technology, strategy, people and projects at ericbrown.com. Eric is also an amateur Photographer and shares his photography work at Photography Minute and on his flickr photostream. Read more about Eric...

Comments

  1. Mary K. Williams says:
    December 1, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    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”.

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  2. Eric D. Brown
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    December 2, 2008 at 12:57 am

    Hi Mary K. Williams:

    thanks for the link…great article.

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