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Morning Update: Where’d Black Friday Come From?

December 4, 2025November 28, 2025 The Morning Update

Today on the Morning Update, where the heck did “Black Friday” Come from, anyway? We find out! Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Link: Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. Comment or submit Op-Eds to steve@granitegrok.com Please like, follow, … Read more

Data Watch – Historical Black Friday Gun Sales Ranked …

December 5, 2022 Skip

Looks like this past “Black Friday” was the third highest one for US gun sales:

Data Point – “…to Arm the Marine Corps – Yet Again!”

December 4, 2019 Skip

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

November 28, 2018 Steve MacDonald

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

September 26, 2018November 16, 2012 Steve MacDonald

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.