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5 Tips for Surviving Cyber Monday
2017’s Black Friday has come and gone, and if you’re reading this, you have successfully survived the stampede of eager shoppers with your limbs and sanity intact. Alternatively, you’ve skipped Black Friday all-together, saving your energy and your budget for Cyber Monday. In case you’ve been living in a cave, Cyber Monday is the online equivalent to Black Friday, allowing shoppers to skip the queues and take advantage of similar discounts online. Cyber Monday is a fairly new phenomenon, making it’s debut on the 28th of November 2005. In the age of technology, online shopping’s world-wide revenue, is growing...
How did Black Friday become a thing? – ALL BAGS
The most eagerly awaited discount shopping event of the year is just around the corner and most of us have started jotting down our Black Friday wish lists. In the midst of this retail frenzy, have you ever stopped to wonder how this all came about? Where did Black Friday originate? If you’re one for folk tales and interesting theories, you may want to do some research, because these theories go way back. However, the first use of the term dates back to Friday, September the 24th, 1869, when the crash of the US Gold Market resulted in a major...