The Shopping Maul

Photo by Artem Beliaikin on Unsplash

In Canada and America, “Black Friday” is the day after Thanksgiving. The ominous sounding name is hardly a bad moniker for multi-national corporations, as hoards of consumers flood parking lots, lining up sometimes as early as midnight to gorge themselves on salivating sale items. It’s the biggest shopping day of the year, and that means seemingly everything to most of the country. Black Friday was named in 1961 Philadelphia as city policeman used the term…