Amid much grumbling about consumerism and chaos taking over the once sacred Thanksgiving holiday, various voices are calling for an end to Thanksgiving store hours, Black Friday, Cyber Monday — and even Thanksgiving itself.
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Epic Thanksgiving–Black Friday Shopping Weekend: The Essential Guide
Where are the best deals to be found? What’s necessary to snag the hottest doorbusters and freebies? Which deals are truly deals, and which are just hype?
This Year, Black Friday Basically Starts a Week Early—If Not Sooner
The truth is that this year, Black Friday deals launch much earlier than Black Friday, or even Thanksgiving.
How to Ruin Thanksgiving, an Hour-by-Hour Guide for Shoppers
This year, in a shortened, especially desperate season for retailers, stores are giving shoppers reason to desert their families on Thanksgiving before dessert is served.
Killer Holiday Shopping Tips From the King of Bargains
Before blowing money unnecessarily in the shopping-crazed days ahead, consider the deal-finding wisdom of Mark Ellwood, author of the new book Bargain Fever: How to Shop in a Discounted World.
Black Friday Is Facing Extinction
Is Black Friday dying? More evidence is showing up indicating that the day after Thanksgiving is not the best day for finding deals. Some retail experts are even forecasting that Black Friday will disappear as an American …
The Power Rangers Turn 20 and Morph Back Into Relevance
Brace yourself, because this story is going to make you feel really old. The Power Rangers — those brightly colored teenage superheroes that have at various times been ninjas, space cadets, race-car drivers, samurai and
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Little Girls Losing Love for Barbie: Is Body Image to Blame?
As sales of too-perfect Mattel’s Barbies shrink, the company’s Monster High dolls find success in appealing to children’s flaws
Trouble In Legoland: How Too Much Innovation Almost Destroyed the Toy Company
This post is in partnership with Knowledge@Wharton, the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A version of the article below was originally published at knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu.
Few toys have caught the imagination of children everywhere more than LEGOs — the …