"Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote in message
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> > With all due respect, that's nonsense. No retailer operates with one
> > month
> > net profits and 11 months of losses (none that stays in business for
> > more
> > than a year anyway). It's a myth.

> With all due respect, I'm well aware of the realities of business.  I
> was offering that paragraph as an explanation for my non-US friends who
> might not know what "Black Friday" is.

It doesn't help to misinform them with an untrue retailer sob story.

> Did you even read the rest of my post?  If I'm pissed off and depressed
> about rampant consumerism leading to the *deaths* of innocent people, do
> you think I effing care about details like what kind of profit margin
> retailers normally take in?

I don't disagree with the rest of your post. The original (and correct)
meaning of the Black Friday was just that anyway, stampedes, traffic jams,
crowds behaving like anglry cattle... etc.

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