Black Friday and the American Society

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, the official start of the Christmas season. The term comes from being "in the black", which means the income of money is greater than the outgo. It used to be that the Friday immediately following Thanksgiving is the one day of the year retail businesses are not in the red.

Maybe we should call it Bloody, Dead Bodies Friday for Wal-Mart.

I am always disappointed in the attitude of retailers and the whole retail industry to see Christmas as a money-making time of the year. I have no interest in the Christian view of Christmas, I prefer mine (Yule or more importantly, just being close to family and friends and feeling special about that and appreciating those you love. Not that you shouldn't do that throughout the year, but this time of the year, we all get together for things and do things and I enjoy it. I always feel good about the people I love. But I think about them even more now.

But this year's Black Friday yielded some even more bothersome news... an employee of a Long Island, New York Wal-mart was trampled to death by an influx of shoppers into the store early Friday morning. Another employee, possibly two, were injured trying to help the now-deceased employee. People who were shopping immediately after the incident did not want to help out the police by leaving; one woman insisted that someone should come and check her things out before she left. She did not manage that but I feel she should have been arrested just for that attitude.

Wow. Who wants to buy anything so badly that they have such a blase attitude about someone killed by this. Who needs to flood into a store to shop so badly that this could happen?

The hell with the retail industry. Even with all the business they likely had, the economy is awful and it is unlikely that stores are making money to put them in the black. ./;z:L: [That was the cat walking across the keyboard, something she is wont to do.] Let them all go down like sinking ships, the way I feel about this right now. And Wal-mart should back off on the telly adverts and I would not miss them at all if they went down in flames!

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