  Sg9018 Member Username: Sg9018 Post Number: 300 Registered: 10-2006 |
The Holiday shopping season is about to start. With Black Friday the "kick off" of the season. In today's Detroit News there is a interesting about Hudson's and it's collection with the Black Friday retail orgy. Hudson's in 1981 started with a early bird sale and that grew in to Black Friday as we know today. On Thanksgiving Day Hudson's unleash a blitz of TV and newspaper ads. The next day at 9 a.m (1/2 hour earlier) Hudson's will open thier doors. The 1st 1981 slae was called the "Beat the Clock" sale. The following year every store had thier own Black Friday sale. Here is the article link, http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20081126/B IZ/811260336/1001 In the article there is a auto recording and historic pics. The pics has every from busy Streets to Detroiters stopping, http://multimedia.detnews.com/ pix/photogalleries/newsgallery /blackfriday_11222008/index.ht m Happy Thanksgiving everyone |
