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Shopping on Black Friday
Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 8:55 PM EST, 8:55 PM EST from Todd Kruse
The USA has some great traditions – Thanksgiving Day combined with football games – along with some traditions I completely avoid such as shopping on “Black Friday” which is the big shopping day following Thanksgiving Day. One department store chain in our area – Kohl’s – opened its doors at 4 am to offer its customers a wide range of choices and reduced prices.
Well thank God – all of us can buy a better and cheaper toaster this year than the toasters our parents had to choose from in the past. Just pause for a moment to consider how much effort calculated using the very sexist “man-hours” measurement consumers exerted on Black Friday. Let’s assume out of the nearly 300 million Americans in our country this year only 10% of them were motivated (crazy?) enough to awake at 3 am to get ready for the 4 am opening at Kohl’s and its competitors and that these 30 million people shopped for 3 hours followed by another hour traveling home to process their purchases for a total of 5 hours per person. That gives us 150 million man-hours of labor that would have been much better utilized if people devoted this amount of time to expanding school choice options or calling a number of doctors and hospitals to shop for the best deal for their pending surgery.
Too often our consumerism stops when we leave the parking lot at Wal-Mart or the Home Depot leaving our children trapped in government monopoly schools (aka “public schools”).
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