Let the Shopping Begin!
November 25, 2011 at 9:43 AM Leave a comment
I turned the TV on this morning intending to head to my local channel to catch the weather. I don’t know which channel the TV was when I turned it off yesterday but the first shot I saw was an aerial view of a shopping mall in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The anchor was excitedly noting that the parking lot was packed. And yes, there, before my eyes were acres and acres of pavement and parked cars. Woohoo!
Then I began to wonder whether the New York Stock Exchange was going to be open today so I turned to CNBC. They were live inside a mall. It was packed too. Another woohoo!
I finally landed on my local channel for that weather report but it struck me that the media seems happy and relieved that that unfortunately placed, pesky orphan of a holiday — Thanksgiving — is finally out of the way and it can concentrate on the real business of life here in these United States of America – “consumers” (God I hate being called that) buying stuff!
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