HDTV Expert - ‘Black Friday’ takes on a whole new meaning – by Pete Putman

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With recent trends in retail consumer electronics sales, “Black Friday” is starting to have more in common with the infamous “Black Tuesday” of 1929.

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> [i]A story posted on the Home Media Web site states that overall consumer electronics retail sales for Black Friday declined by 5.6% from last year.
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I have to wonder if this has anything to do with "turquoise Thursday". Not to mention all the jump-start, pre black-Friday sales.

In other words, if you included the sales in the week leading up to BF, and compared that with last year's, I'm not so sure there would have been any drop.

If even under that analytic measure retail sales did drop, then I'd attribute it to all the gloom and doom talk about the "fiscal cliff". That's bound to make buyers both apprehensive and cautious.

- Tim