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Holiday shopping forecast: Stronger, and predictably crazy

Some day in the future, anthropologists may be able to explain the bizarre shopping rituals of the 21st Century American consumer during the holiday season: Why, for example, so many people look for bargains on one day – Black Friday – when with a little work bargains can be found on the other 364. Or why they stand in midnight lines in bleak winter weather only to risk stampedes and fight each other for cheap gifts.

 

Wal-Mart Agrees to Crowd-Control Plan

Wal-Mart Stores agreed to institute a crowd-control plan in New York stores in the wake of a 'Black Friday' shopper melee where a worker was trampled to death.

 

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