I will be giving mostly cash this year.
"Optimism weighs in on Black Friday; Bargains drew big crowds, but the economy’s slow recovery tempered holiday spending" by Erin Ailworth, Katie Johnston Chase, and Johnny Diaz, Globe Staff / November 27, 2010
Yup, the Globe sent three reporters out to cruise the malls.
Bargain-hungry shoppers lined up before stores opened in Greater Boston, and filled their bags and carts with Black Friday deals yesterday, perhaps the first signals that consumers are cautiously beginning to spend after a buying hiatus that began during the recession.
But yesterday also reflected how the slow and uneven economic recovery is affecting families in different ways: with some people spending more, others spending less, and still others drawn out for the first time because the holiday prices were just too good to pass up....
No matter what their projected spending habits are, shoppers turned out in force yesterday, braving a frigid, rainy morning....
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Yeah, too bad the cash did not.
More shopping stories I'm not interested in (sorry):
Electronics lure shoppers seeking bargains
Newbies join hunt for bargains
You know I'm not out shopping, readers.
And I'm no longer reading the Boston Globe Corporate Promotion Section they call Business.
Lots of lies in there that I don't like.
