Recession-era Black Friday Filled With Challenges

Recession-era Black Friday Filled With Challenges

by Jean E. Palmieri and Sharon Edelson with contributions from Evan Clark

Posted Wednesday November 25, 2009

From WWD Issue 11/25/2009

Game on — and retailers don’t want to take chances with the fragile consumer psyche.


After more than a year of recession fallout that made holiday 2008...
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