South Boston Bulletin: Small Business Saturday, 2017
by Rick Winterson There is a certain insanity to “Cyber Monday”, the Monday of November’s final week. Yes, we live in a cyber-influenced age, but blending this into the Winter Holiday Season is a bit extreme in our opinion. Even more insane is so-called “Black Friday”, which was originally confined to the Friday after Thanksgiving. Over the last few years, Black Friday has been stretched from well before midnight on Thanksgiving Thursday into the following weekend. In this year of 2017, Black Friday was stretched far enough backwards to include November 20 – the Monday before Thanksgiving. So we should now call it “Black Week”, maybe? Insanity, indeed! Fortunately, between the two volcanoes of insanity known as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there was [...]