In today’s lunchtime links: Cory Booker’s guide to twitter, the best movies of the millennium and a puppy that fell from the sky.
Gun shops rang in the holiday shopping season with a bang. Black Friday 2011 set the biggest one-day record of background check requests for hopeful gun buyers, eclipsing the previous record by 32%.
—ALLEN ADAMSON, brand consultant, on why retailers have come up with events like Cyber Monday and odder choices like T-Mobile’s Magenta Saturday, outdoor store Gander Mountain’s Camo Thursdays and Mattel’s Pink Friday and Blue Friday (via Associated Press)
Don’t look behind you, though; a signal emitted by your cell phone could be sending information to receivers that log your path from store to store.
This year, the usual pushing and shoving escalated into outright mayhem in many locations as shoppers literally came to blows.
Is Black Friday the best day of the year to get a bargain on a new car?
The song we love to hate makes its holiday reprisal. But will it help shoppers get pumped for Black Friday?
One of the biggest stories to emerge this holiday shopping season is the expansion of Black Friday.
You knew this was coming.
It’s the biggest shopping day of the year, how are you going to celebrate?
