Is Black Friday shopping dead or still an essential holiday tradition? Vote in our poll
Depending on who you ask, the Friday after Thanksgiving used to be spent in one of two ways: camping out in the early-morning darkness with a hundred other people waiting to get inside a big-box store to snag that TV and any marked down Christmas gifts you’ve been eyeing.
Or, sleeping off the turkey and pumpkin pie from the night before.
In recent years, Black Friday shopping has seen marked changes that spread out the once king-of-all-shopping-days into an entire weeks-long shopping season of online and in-store deals.
This year, the National Retail Federation is estimating that holiday sales between November and December will total between $843.4 billion and $859 billion, with more than a quarter of that taking place online or in non-store sales.
But that diaspora has led to a lack of the frenzied energy that once characterized the day after Thanksgiving, and numerous experts say Black Friday as we once knew it is now a thing of the past.
So we at The Tribune want to know: Is traditional Black Friday dead — or alive and kicking? Let us know your day-after-Thanksgiving plans in the poll below and you’ll help shape our coverage of this holiday shopping season.
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