Off to An Early Start

摘要

Black Friday has already arrived. In some cases it arrived quietly, in others it was a mighty roar. But nonetheless, it got here much earlier than anyone really anticipated. Walking through a number of stores in mid-October,rnalready there were signs of an early Christmas - even as Halloween was still the focus on the floors. Who, with the weather in the 80s in New York, even was thinking about Christmas, boots or down comforters?rnForward a few weeks and the newspapers are full of heavy duty promotions for store-widernsales. In most cases, these were massive boxes of item after item after item across the store that had no more identity for a consumer than one could imagine.