Black Friday figures better than last year

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Retailers see sales drop in dreary November - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081204/ap_on_bi_ge/retail_sales - broken link)

Many stores blamed their weak November figures in part to a quirk in the calendar — a late Thanksgiving means that the month's reporting period does not include a whole week of post-holiday shopping compared with a year ago.

We'll see if that has any merit.

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Originally Posted by Lulu101

So if Black Friday was a sucess is the financial crisis over?

To those foolish enough to jump to conclusions it may be, but the smart money looks at the sales for the days and weeks around Black Friday.

One day does not prove a thing.