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    Why do Canadian stores even offer Black Friday sales?

    There are pitfalls for both sides: Black Friday is a ‘zero-sum game’ for retailers, while Canadian shoppers can get better deals on Boxing Day

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    The year Amazon.com replaced Santa

    This Guardian story about holiday shopping leaves the slightly unsettling impression that “Boxing Day”, for the purposes of retailing, now begins in the UK at about 6 p.m. on the 24th of December. Maybe those billboards that plead with us to keep the Christ in Christmas should just be changed to request that the Christmas be kept in it?