We continue to shovel money out of our own communities, our own country. The reality, though, is that it has been permanently etched on our calendars since 2013, when the increase in duty-free limits and the ease of online shopping compelled merchants to try stanching the cross-border bleeding. On the face of it, Canadian Black Friday doesn’t make sense, seeing as the event is built around a holiday, American Thanksgiving, that we don’t celebrate. So are Canadians, which is why our retailers feel forced to stage Black Friday sales, too. That doesn’t mean Americans aren’t shopping for Black Friday deals. According to the New York Times, a record 8,000 stores closed in 2017. So are many of the shops that used to draw the longest queues. The pre-dawn lineups of shivering shoppers are gone, too. news sources report Black Friday has been quieter the last couple of years. An elderly woman is stomped by a Texas man as he wrests a television from her hands. A mother pepper sprays fellow video-game shoppers in L.A. Nothing makes a self-righteous Canadian feel as smugly superior as videos of the annual retail riots south of the border.
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