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Sears Declares Halloween "Black Friday"

11.7.09 3:00 PM EDT By Laura Northrup@lnorthrup

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Forget Christmas creep. How about Black Friday creep? Sears went ahead and declared last weekend, October 30 and 31st, the beginning of Black Friday, and told their mailing list so.

Larry received this e-mail, with the subject line “HO-HO-HO…Black Friday Starts Today.”

No. It doesn’t. Sears, you’re doing it very, very wrong.

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11.7.09By Laura Northrup@lnorthrup

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