http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081130/online-black-friday-not-quite-as-bad-as-feared/ by Peter Kafka Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:52:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081130/online-black-friday-not-quite-as-bad-as-feared/comment-page-1/#comment-688 Robert Falkner Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:51:27 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=1520#comment-688 Just one more thing about how gloom has gone pandemic and it's most writers everywhere. For instance Citibank fell short as predicted last quarter but within analyists estimates. Whew... Wrong! The header read, "Citi misses..third quarter in a row"! Well surprise, surprise... Kerplummet! Here why not instead, "Black-Friday bucks economy!" Gloom is pandemic right now. Time to buy! Just one more thing about how gloom has gone pandemic and it’s most writers everywhere. For instance Citibank fell short as predicted last quarter but within analyists estimates. Whew… Wrong! The header read, “Citi misses..third quarter in a row”! Well surprise, surprise… Kerplummet! Here why not instead, “Black-Friday bucks economy!” Gloom is pandemic right now. Time to buy!

]]> http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081130/online-black-friday-not-quite-as-bad-as-feared/comment-page-1/#comment-686 Robert Falkner Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:53:53 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=1520#comment-686 My new 32" LCDTV quest. I knew it was going to be doomed when I woke up at 9:30. Of course WM had been out by 5:05 and by then the rush was over. I live in the area where the 3rd and maybe 2nd WM was built so no need for GPS units to get close. After about ten years of fighting there's a new kid in town and it's called Target and they still had good stuff left at 2:00. In hand was a 26" TV and a talking Garmin I wanted very badly even though I haven't left town in years. Got to the checkout and my temporary charge slip had expired while my real one was in the mail back home. Went back to my truck parked in the construction zone, fought the traffic out and went home. When are they going to learn that there's time for four of these before Christmas..whoever said one was all we wanted? So much for the terrible economy. My new 32″ LCDTV quest. I knew it was going to be doomed when I woke up at 9:30. Of course WM had been out by 5:05 and by then the rush was over. I live in the area where the 3rd and maybe 2nd WM was built so no need for GPS units to get close. After about ten years of fighting there’s a new kid in town and it’s called Target and they still had good stuff left at 2:00. In hand was a 26″ TV and a talking Garmin I wanted very badly even though I haven’t left town in years. Got to the checkout and my temporary charge slip had expired while my real one was in the mail back home. Went back to my truck parked in the construction zone, fought the traffic out and went home. When are they going to learn that there’s time for four of these before Christmas..whoever said one was all we wanted? So much for the terrible economy.

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