After penning “Put the Cuckoos Back in the Clocks” five months ago and starting a crime wave thread on Twitter, I am not surprised that a prevalent disregard for law and order has devolved into military-style precision “smash and grab” mobs looting high-end retail...
As you know, Black Friday gets its name from the financial phrase, “in the black.” Specifically, many retailers merely get by just for this one day, when they can get their financials in the profitable side of the column. There’s a reason why we don’t have a...
Dyker Heights (aka Dyker Lights) in Brooklyn occupies a special place in my heart, as I lived and worked in NYC for a couple decades. Before we venture over to my adopted hometown for some holiday cheer, have a look at the most recent retail and indentured consumer...
“Black” placed before a day of the week formerly meant something terrible happened that day in financial markets and elsewhere or denoted some kind of natural catastrophe, like the Black Death. That was the case until the Internet was born and U.S. retail adopted...
As millions of Americans celebrate the start of the holiday season — with what else but rampant consumerism? — much focus will be centered on Black Friday sales results, particularly for the big-box retailers. Occupying the number one and two slots of the...