Black Friday

Americans are buying more gifts for themselves

New market research suggests that roughly 25 percent of us are at the top of our own holiday shopping list

Lynn Parramore, Alternet Wednesday, Dec 19, 2012 4:04 PM UTC
Life AlterNet, Wall Street Journal

6 ways retailers trick you into buying more crap

Follow these holiday shopping guidelines and you just may be able to afford a vacation in the new year

Lauren Kelly, Alternet Saturday, Dec 15, 2012 4:00 PM UTC 10
Life AlterNet, shopping, Retail

You’re being tricked into buying that awful sweater!

New research shows that simple scents like cookies and oranges can get consumers in the shopping spirit

Joel Smith, Pacific Standard Saturday, Dec 8, 2012 5:00 PM UTC
Life Pacific Standard, Christmas

Is Wal-Mart the enemy?

The mega-store's employees are battling for fair pay, real benefits and respect -- and not to harm the company

Matt Stoller Thursday, Nov 29, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 11
News Occupy Wall Street

Don’t blame commercialism for your shopping madness

Shootings, stompings, miscarriages and a trampled corpse: Black Friday atrocities only reflect our own dark desire

David Sirota Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 11
Business shopping, commercialism

Online shopping powered Black Friday

And hundreds of Walmart workers walked out

Alex Halperin Sunday, Nov 25, 2012 8:05 PM UTC
Life Walmart, Black Friday, iPad

1,000 Walmart protests across the US

An update on nationwide strikes and solidarity demonstrations VIDEO

Natasha Lennard Friday, Nov 23, 2012 6:51 PM UTC 52
News Labor Rights, Strike, Walmart

Man pulls gun on Black Friday line-cutter

San Antonio shoppers turn violent waiting to get into a Sears store

Associated Press Friday, Nov 23, 2012 4:36 PM UTC 57
News Guns, Consumerism, Black Friday

Black Friday descends into madness at Kansas Victoria’s Secret

A frenzied crowd is held back by security guards outside the lingerie store VIDEO

Natasha Lennard Friday, Nov 23, 2012 4:19 PM UTC 31
News Madness, Victoria's Secret

Wal-Mart walkouts are just the start

A single strike on Black Friday won't dent the retailer's profits, but it could be the first of many

Cole Stangler, The American Prospect Friday, Nov 23, 2012 2:00 PM UTC 11
Politics Wal-Mart, Thanksgiving

Capitalism’s grossest win: The final triumph of Black Friday

From Plymouth Rock to Thanksgiving at Best Buy: The Puritan ethic went spectacularly astray, all for an iPad mini

Andrew Leonard Friday, Nov 23, 2012 12:00 PM UTC 98
Business shopping, Walmart strike, Walmart

I won’t shop on Thanksgiving

I don't blame corporations for the consumer forces that warped our national holiday. I blame us

Lorraine Berry Friday, Nov 23, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 46
Life shopping, Target, Black Friday

Don’t shop at Wal-Mart on Friday!

If you care a lick about America's work force, help push its largest employer to improve its employees' wages

Robert Reich, ROBERTREICH.org Wednesday, Nov 21, 2012 9:31 PM UTC 72
Business Unionization, Unions

Wal-Mart’s Black Friday showdown

Everything you need to know about the historic strikes and the attempts to shut them down VIDEO

Natasha Lennard Tuesday, Nov 20, 2012 9:42 PM UTC 28
Business Labor Rights, OUR walmart, Unions

The desperation of Black Friday

Sales numbers may have broken records, but a Wal-Mart waffle-maker riot warns against optimism VIDEO

Andrew Leonard Monday, Nov 28, 2011 6:30 PM UTC 34
News Black Friday

Black Friday: Consumerism minus civilization

When the "Crazy Target Lady" becomes a midnight-sale shopping-obsessed cultural icon, we've gone too far VIDEO

Andrew Leonard Friday, Nov 25, 2011 2:00 PM UTC 94
News Black Friday

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