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Black Friday stories: 12 news summaries
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Wal-Mart Will Push TVs, Laptops on Black Friday

Discount circular leaks ahead of schedule

Nov 17, 09 6:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Details of Wal-Mart's Black Friday deals—normally kept under wraps until Thanksgiving week—have been obtained by CNNMoney and partially confirmed by the retailer. The day after Thanksgiving will see deep discounts on high-def TVs, laptops, and Blu-ray players. Some specifics:
  • Sanyo 50-inch plasma TVs will be available for
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big deals • iPod • sales • GPS • consumer electronics • Black Friday • large-screen TVs • Wal-Mart • Blu-ray • computers

iPhone Users Get Leg Up on Black Friday

App lets shoppers check deals, and rumored deals

Nov 5, 09 10:51 PM CST
(Newser) - If you’re already getting your Black Friday game face on, consider making the Black Friday app the first thing on your shopping list. The free program from dealnews can keep you up to date on both officially announced bargains and deals that have “leaked,” and lets you... More »

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retail • iPhone • holiday shopping • Black Friday • iPhone applications • App Store • dealnews

 Trampled Worker's 
 Family Sues Wal-Mart 

And more lawsuits coming over Black Friday trampling on Long Island

Dec 3, 08 2:56 PM CST
(AP) - The family of the Wal-Mart temp worker who was trampled to death by a Black Friday stampede has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in New York's state Supreme Court against the retailer and the Long Island mall where the store is located. The family also filed notice that Nassau County,... More »

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crime • New York • Long Island • temporary employment • civil lawsuits • holiday shopping • Black Friday • Wal-Mart • stampede • wrongful death

 Was Wal-Mart 
 Trampling a Crime? 

Experts mixed on whether death can be prosecuted

Dec 2, 08 9:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Trampling a Long Island Wal-Mart worker in a frenzied rush for flat-screen TVs may be a prosecutable crime, reports Newsday, but experts are split. “In order to prosecute a homicide, you have to establish that someone caused a death," said a lawyer. "If I stepped on his... More »

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crime • death • accidental death • holiday shopping • Black Friday • Wal-Mart • criminal prosecution • civil trial

 Holiday Sales Surge 
 on Deep Discounts 

But retailers worry huge bargains may cut deeply into their profits

Dec 1, 08 7:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Desperate retailers received a jolt of good news this weekend as shoppers poured into stores and spent 7% more—an average $372.57 each—than they did a year ago, reports the New York Times. But Black Friday glee may be replaced with gloom as retailers tote up the slim... More »

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Target • holiday shopping • Black Friday • National Retail Federation • financial crisis

Shoppers Are Even
Grinchier Than Expected

Over a third of shoppers spent less than the same time last year

Dec 1, 08 3:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Holiday shopping sales are looking even worse than forecast, Reuters reports. A new survey conducted over the traditional weekend launch of holiday gift-buying, found that 38% of shoppers said they spent less over the weekend than during the same period last year—and 30% were unimpressed by this year's discounts.... More »

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holiday shopping • Black Friday • survey • retailers • Christmas shopping

ANALYSIS

 Wal-Mart Death a Fitting
 Symbol of the Times

Desperate consumers, ailing economy make for dangerous combination

Nov 30, 08 1:54 PM CST
(Newser) - When shoppers charged into a Long Island Wal-Mart at the stroke of 5am Friday and trampled to death a temp who happened to get between them and the $388 flatscreen TVs inside,“it was a tragedy, yet it did not feel like an accident,” Peter Goodman writes in... More »

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death • holiday shopping • Black Friday • Wal-Mart • financial crisis • Christmas shopping

Wal-Mart Worker Killed in Black Friday Stampede

Another woman miscarries

Nov 28, 08 9:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Black Friday bargain hunters trampled an employee to death this morning at a Long Island Wal-Mart, the New York Daily News reports. Another woman had a miscarriage in the stampede. The unidentified employee had been trying to hold the unruly crowd back, but the crowd knocked him down and... More »

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holiday shopping • Black Friday • Wal-Mart • stampede

 Twitchy Retail 
 Braces for 
 Black Season 

'Black Friday' starts days early and continues throughout season

Nov 28, 08 8:33 AM CST
(Newser) - For years, retailers across America have dubbed today Black Friday, when shoppers descend like locusts on cut-price merchandise to signal the start of the holiday season. But as the New York Times reports, stores have been slashing prices for weeks now, often with little effect. From toys to electronics to... More »

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shopping • holiday shopping • Black Friday • retailers • Christmas shopping

'Black Friday' Not Such a Deal

Globe investigation finds better deals closer to Christmas

Dec 28, 07 6:03 PM CST
(Newser) - With the holiday shop-fest all but over, the Boston Globe reports that the day after Thanksgiving doesn't always yield the best bargains, as consumers have been led to believe. The paper surveyed prices for 52 consumer-electronics products during the holiday shopping season—and found that only five were cheapest on... More »

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Thanksgiving • holiday shopping • Black Friday

Holiday E-Commerce Still Suffers Growing Pains

Net surfing window shoppers blamed for crashes, meltdowns

Dec 15, 07 10:14 AM CST
(Newser) - As online retailers post record sales this year, holiday e-commerce meltdowns show that stores still don't have the kinks ironed out of their sites. Despite increased capacity on retail sites, crashes such as Sears.com's eight-hour Black Friday crash and Yahoo Shopping's 10-hour Cyber Monday outage continue to plague holiday... More »

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Yahoo • online advertising • online retailers • retail sales • holiday shopping • Black Friday • Cyber Monday • Sears

MARKETS

Retail Leads Black Friday Rally

Wal-Mart, Target, JC Penney all gain; Citigroup rebounds

Nov 23, 07 2:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Stocks rose in an abbreviated session today, cutting losses for the week as early-bird Christmas shopping gave reason for optimism. "The fact that Black Friday is not a disaster and is off to a modest but healthy start is just a relief,'' one analyst told Bloomberg. The Dow... More »

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stock market • NASDAQ • JCPenney • Dow Jones • Standard and Poor • Target • holiday shopping • Black Friday • Wal-Mart

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