{"id":4320,"date":"2012-11-23T20:16:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T01:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2012-11-23T20:16:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T01:16:29","slug":"black-friday-shopping-my-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/2012\/11\/black-friday-shopping-my-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday Shopping – My Way!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey guys – hope you all had a great Thanksgiving – if you are in the US, that is!\u00a0 Today, the day after Thanksgiving, is known as “Black Friday”, and is the biggest retail shopping day of the year.<\/p>\n

It’s called black Friday because if you add up all of a retailer’s annual expenses versus their sales, supposedly, this is the day when they finally start making money above and beyond their annual expenses, and “go into the black” – or something like that…<\/p>\n

Anyway, about 10 years ago or so, US retailers started REALLY competing heavily for shoppers on Black Friday, by offering all of these super deals on television sets, etc.\u00a0 And as a result, people go BERSERK fighting for the limited number of $99 flat screen TV’s, etc. – it’s INSANE – people actually get trampled every year!<\/p>\n

I stay FAR away from all of this mayhem, but this year, I actually did go shopping – for a new machine!\u00a0 Take a look!<\/p>\n