No More STAMPEDES Or FRENZIED Crowds For Black Friday...The end of a tradition!

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With the post-Thanksgiving shopping frenzy having already been downgraded to "Blasé Friday" in prior years due to the continued devastation of bricks and mortar retail, it will hardly come as a surprise that today - when online spending surpassed in store purchases for the first time ever...

due to ongoing covid lockdowns, one can officially put the time of death on one of the fondest traditions of American consumerism: The sprinting, shoving, punching grabfest that was the annual Friday midnight pilgrimage to your local mall, better known as Black Friday, is no more.

As Bloomberg notes, the sluggish in-person traffic reported in 2019 is only expected to thin out further this year, as mall-wary shoppers trade in midnight doorbusters for digital deals and the comfort of their own homes.