Looks like this past “Black Friday” was the third highest one for US gun sales:
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Data Point – “…to Arm the Marine Corps – Yet Again!”
Americans Bought Enough Guns on Black Friday to Arm the Marine Corps – Yet Again! According to the FBI, over 200,000 background check requests associated with the purchase of a firearm were submitted to the agency on Black Friday, marking the second highest gun sales day ever. The previous record was set on the day … Read more
Holiday Shopping – Cyber Monday Mouse Clicks Up, Black Friday Foot Traffic Down
Commercial culture update. Black Friday. Early Black Friday. After Black Friday. All resulted in a decline in bricks and mortar foot-traffic. The people who pay attention to such things estimate 9 million fewer shoppers passed through the doors of retailers.
Wal-Mart Walk Out
I know where I am going to shop on Black Friday. Wal-Mart.
Why?
Because pro-union groups are agitating Wal-Mart employees across the nation to walk-out on Black Friday. Unions have been trying to ruin Wal-Mart’s price advantage for years, particularity since they got into the grocery business; grocers unions were pissed and still are.
Overall the complaints are the same. They claim the employer is unfair. Maybe they are. But I’ve been an employer. I’ve run business. I know what goes down during the application , interview and hiring process. In past jobs I’ve hired thousands and fired more than a few. And this relationship can be summed up with this pull quote from this Fox news article.
“If you come into a workplace knowing that’s an agreement you might have to make, then that’s your choice to have that job,” shopper Rae Luce told the station.
Bulls-Eye.