{"id":649,"date":"2005-11-20T21:21:11","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T01:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/11\/20\/to-each-his-own\/"},"modified":"2005-11-20T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T01:21:11","slug":"to-each-his-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/11\/20\/to-each-his-own\/","title":{"rendered":"To Each His Own"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n

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Once again, the day after Thanksgiving, this year Nov.
\n 25th, is expected to be the biggest shopping day of the year.  Strange
\n that the advertising industry couldn’t come up with a snapier nickname
\n for the day than "Black Friday". We get White Sales, and Red Tag Sales<\/a> and
\n Blue Light Specials, but Black Friday sounds like a stock market crash
\n or a bad horror flick.<\/p>\n

A group of incorrigible anti-Capitalist do-gooders called
\n Adbusters<\/a> has for several years been encouraging people to BUY
\n NOTHING<\/a> on Friday, as a sort of symbolic protest. They say:<\/p>\n

\n

For 24 hours, millions
\n of people around the world do not participate — in the doomsday economy,
\n the marketing mind-games, and the frantic consumer-binge that’s become
\n our culture. We pause. We make a small choice not to shop. We shrink
\n our footprint and gain some calm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Of
\n course, fiscal restraint may not be your cup of tea, in which case let
\n us reccomend Flex Deals.  They are dedicated to
\n sniffing out and posting unpublished specials at the major stores – like
\n $349 laptops at Best Buy. They have a special, and quite extensive, list
\n of unadvertised Black
\n Friday specials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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