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DEL.ICIO.USForget Thanksgiving. Ready to shop?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Forget about Thanksgiving. Are you ready for Black Friday?
Black Friday, which is the Friday following Thanksgiving, is a day longed for by both sellers and shoppers. It is the busiest shopping day of the year.
For countless Americans who are able to enjoy an extended Thanksgiving weekend shared with family and friends, it is a perfect segue into the official holiday season.
It is a day when millions of consumers begin their holiday shopping in preparation for the many holiday feasts, gatherings, and gift exchanges that will occur through the start of the New Year.
Many retailers use special early bird store hours, promotions, and coupons to lure bargain hunting consumers into their stores. For many businesses Black Friday sales are relied upon to give their year-end profit margins a boost.
“Black Friday was when retailers went from being unprofitable, or “in the red,” to being profitable, or “in the black”, at a time when accounting records were kept by hand and red indicated loss and black profit”, says Melody Vargas who is the guide to the retail industry at About.com.
A savvy holiday marketing tool that I received in my email from Mill Creek Specialty Shop offers sage shopping advice that I want to pass along:
SHOP WISELY: Know who you’re dealing with. Protect your privacy. While online order only on a secure server. Guard your online password. Pay the safest way
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Check the refund and return policy. Read the fine print. Check delivery dates. Review warranties.
GET THE BEST DEAL: Compare prices. Check shipping and handling fees. Order early to allow plenty of time for shipment and delivery. Keep Good Records. Track your purchases. Keep receipts & website printouts.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
Will you participate in the Black Friday frenzy? As a consumer? As a retailer or employee? Or both?
What advice do you have for smart and safe holiday shopping?
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By George
November 20, 2006 04:39 PM | Link to this
Well, there is a new website in atlanta called http://www.collegemedium.com It is a site for students to sell stuff. Apparently students are actually going and standing in long lines for items like the PS3, and selling them on this site and ebay when the stores run out.
By Keith Lynch
November 27, 2006 11:47 AM | Link to this
Dear Readers, my name is Keith Lynch and I would like to thank the public for your support in not only your purchase of my book but also your prayers. I would like to also wish you a happy holiday season, but for me I cannot celebrate while my family is still in so much turmoil. This part of the year is especially depressing for me and I will fast for JUSTICE while here in Chicago. Please pray for my family and me that God will bring us back together and give us justice. I will place quotes from the Bible to express what I believe happens to people who are taken advantage of by the judicial system.
Woe to you teachers of the law, you hypocrites. You say if anyone swears by his oath they are bound by their word, but when officials are exposed as lyres of their words you reward them in your judgments. You neglected the more important matters of the law-justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guilds' you strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. Woe to you teachers of the law, you hypocrites! You build courts of law like white washed tombs, which look beautiful and clean on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. The Lord sits in judgment, and then you will know that there is a God! "I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I take vengeance on them." Ezekiel 25:17Log onto www.kllundypublishingllc.com and review the injustice, which befallen my family and me at the hands of law enforcement and public officials in Dekalb County, Decatur, Georgia. Ask officials to comment on the accusations.
Keith Lynch
By Keith Lynch
November 27, 2006 11:48 AM | Link to this
Dear Readers, my name is Keith Lynch and I would like to thank the public for your support in not only your purchase of my book but also your prayers. I would like to also wish you a happy holiday season, but for me I cannot celebrate while my family is still in so much turmoil. This part of the year is especially depressing for me and I will fast for JUSTICE while here in Chicago. Please pray for my family and me that God will bring us back together and give us justice. I will place quotes from the Bible to express what I believe happens to people who are taken advantage of by the judicial system.
Woe to you teachers of the law, you hypocrites. You say if anyone swears by his oath they are bound by their word, but when officials are exposed as lyres of their words you reward them in your judgments. You neglected the more important matters of the law-justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guilds' you strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. Woe to you teachers of the law, you hypocrites! You build courts of law like white washed tombs, which look beautiful and clean on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. The Lord sits in judgment, and then you will know that there is a God! "I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I take vengeance on them." Ezekiel 25:17Log onto www.kllundypublishingllc.com and review the injustice, which befallen my family and me at the hands of law enforcement and public officials in Dekalb County, Decatur, Georgia. Ask officials to comment on the accusations.
Keith Lynch