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Retailers wait for weekend sales numbers

By Carleton Bryant on Dec. 1, 2008 into Out of Context

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Retailers anxiously are awaiting a tally of sales figures from the Thanksgiving weekend, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, Heather Cobun is reporting.

The retailers want to know if Black Friday really put them in the black, or whether the economic downturn made weekend shopping a shade of gray.

It's a profit motif. After all, how bad can the bottom line be when shoppers will trample a store worker to death to get a bargain?

 

 

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kayleigh88

As if there wasn't enough to worry about these days. Now it's not even safe to go shopping?!?! Parents have to tell their children, "Ok, so never take candy from strangers...and never go shopping at WalMart the day after Thanksgiving."
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