Pooh : Pooh And The Great Online Shopping Festival

Long lines, crowds of people, a million sale signs, standing in below zero weather, and a bright brand-name store feeding materials to consumers is the Black Friday Tradition. No better way to give thanks by taking all the money in our pockets and showering it over companies. After devouring a massive meal with lots of turkey, fighting others over items and being uncivilized citizens is what follows. But why is it so many Americans indulge in this tradition? Besides the “cheap” prices on products, could it be the extensive advertisement drawing us? Or is there a more psychological explanation? In the article “Shopping on Black Friday Makes You Feel Like a Well-Loved Warrior” by Brain Handwerk, there’s an overview study behind the appeal and

Black Friday is the following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many workers have the day off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday, this increases the number of potential shoppers. Retailers often decorate for the Christmas and holiday season weeks beforehand. Many retailers open extremely early, with most of the retailers typically opening at 5 A.M. or even earlier. Retailers use Black Friday to kick off the holiday season to use much of their products to go from the red to the black.

Ah Christmas, it is said to be the most wonderful time of the year. In the United States Christmas is a time of giving and receiving, spending time with your family, and in most Christian families, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas is hands-down the most highly commercialized holiday celebrated by Americans. In fact, according to CBS news, the average American will spend $700 on gifts this holiday season, totaling for a whopping $465 billion spent nation-wide. From mall Santas as far as the eye can see, to hearing Christmas music in every retail store you enter. Christmas is a time of high spirits and high spending in the U.S.

How do you tell which elements of nonfiction and forms of rhetoric authors utilize in their articles? In the article, “How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All”, Jerry Useem makes use of several literary devices to inform his audience of the shadowy world of computer algorithms that control the consumer’s online shopping experience. In this article, Useem uses cultural and economic factors to elicit a response from the reader, as this topic can make people think more about what happens when they shop online. The author also incorporates two styles of rhetoric into his article, pathos, and logos. He writes using pathos to engage the audience emotionally by speaking about the drastic price changes over the hours, days, months, and years, and to inform consumers about their lack of consent during studies (“Arguments Best Friends”). He is using logos in his article by telling facts and showing evidence, such

Thanksgiving traditions don't end on Thanksgiving Day. In the 1950s, the day after Thanksgiving was called Black Friday by factory managers because so many workers called in sick and the Philadelphia Police Department took to calling the day Black Friday to describe the traffic jams, crowds and shoplifters during the start of the holiday shopping season. Black Friday signals the start of the holiday shopping season, but it may be a tradition that's continuing to evolve as stores vie to be the earliest to open Thanksgiving Day.

Christmas time. Christmas time brings wonder and hope to children. The main component to this wonder and hope is for a mythical being called Santa Claus. This Santa Claus comes in the night and brings “good little children” toys. In reality the parents do. With this combination and the thought we have to give this, this, and this person something different, sentimental, and special gifts the sales were definitely a game changer to people. We could get gifts way cheaper and early. Once stores relied “hey we can take advantage of this movement” the sales have taken over our lives made the even inhuman. In the article “Black Friday: Consumerism minus Civilization he mentions this exact theory. The holiday has become a lot earlier, the shopping

The biggest shopping day of the year is known as “Black Friday”. This is when loads of people all around the country gather around to shop store sales everywhere before Christmas time settles in. “Stores began to use the term in the 1970s because the day after Thanksgiving marked the start of the profitable holiday shopping season…” (Zillman). According to Amanda Nicholson this term may go back even earlier into the 1960s. Black Friday was how police officers described the day after Thanksgiving because residents from the city and near suburbs marched the stores of Philadelphia in search of gifts for the holidays (Zillman). The sale has since then tragically morphed from the early first development, changing ever-so drastically. Every year stores open earlier practically flipping the bird to Thanksgiving in a way that is detrimental to history. Black Friday should be held only on its original specified date of the Friday after Thanksgiving so that it does not interfere in any way with the holiday gatherings because it takes employees away from their families and friends diminishing the value of Thanksgiving as a whole.

When families want to reward themselves and their family, it is usually pretty expensive. Most families are always looking for deals and coupons to be able to afford their lifestyles. People usually want new things but, new things are not always in anybody’s budget. Luckily, Black Friday has unbeatable deals for people to spend and still keep a budget. Every year Black Friday brings in all kinds of people even people who usually do not indulge in sales. People prefer to shop during Black Friday because Black Friday provides families with an opportunity to afford things they always wanted, families saving money on Black Friday helps them stay on budget, and people will spend less on Black Friday.

As a result, Black Friday use to be just one day, but over the past few years stores have started opening earlier and earlier on Friday, and even going so far as to open on Thanksgiving. With this in mind, now that this faux national holiday stretches over several days, does this also mean consumers are spending more than the previous year or giving them more options to save money? Consequently, many have shown their displeasure by keeping their businesses closed on Thanksgiving Day, consumers are boycotting stores, starting online petitions and even workers going on strike(Tuttle, Tis the Season)?

During the holidays each day it is special.Like on Monday, there will be a carnival and on Tuesday no one goes to work.This doesn't stop until the holidays stop.The ideas can repeat and repeat over and over but they can make som new ideas for that pacific day so it can be different.

Holidays have always been known to affect our consumer culture for many years, but how it all began eludes many people and very few studies have been completed on it. Even though some say that the subject is too broad to precisely identify how holidays, especially Christmas, directly affect our market, I have found that people’s values, expectations and rituals related to holidays can cause an excessive amount of spending among our society. Most people are unaware that over the centuries holidays have become such a profitable time of year for industries that they now starting to promote gift ideas on an average of a month and a half ahead of actual holiday dates to meet consumer demands.

We already know that the "Black Friday" is an American tradition that consists of a drop in prices in major stores, during the last Friday of November, coinciding with the opening of Christmas shopping. But what is the origin of this celebration?

Shopping At Work: Giving in to the temptation of shopping for the upcoming holiday season on a Cyber Monday while at work can bring along its own drawbacks. Your employer may raise objections on shopping during the work hours, so it is advisable to make sure your shopping doesn't land you in job-related

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Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to 3 days of forget-everything-just-shopping experience. The GOSF, launched as a single day online festival in 2012, came back in 2014, bigger and better. Number of participating retailers was up by almost 100%, and visitors increased by more than 120%. Taking a cue from last year, revenues will see an uptrend of at least 3.5 times.