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The holiday season is often marked by the need to go shopping for presents, especially those that take advantage of Black Friday deals.  But what's it like to be an employee that day?

Shopping madness: Teens experience working on Black Friday

Sam Salomone, Staff writer December 3, 2019

Every year Black Friday has gotten more and more crazy. In 2018, an estimated 116 million people went out looking for deals. A tradition that used to take place solely on the day after Thanksgiving now...

Holidays have become overly commercialized.

The overcommercialization of holidays (Editorial)

Sarah Payne, Perspectives writer December 1, 2014

The United States of America is a country full of wants. We want food, we want clothes, we want friends, we want money. We want, we want, we want. And stores across the nation have discovered how to play...

On Black Friday, shoppers wait in line for hours just to save a few dollars.

What’s up with Black Friday? (Editorial)

Amanda Corrao, Perspectives writer November 21, 2013

On the day of Thanksgiving, many families get together and bond with their friends and relatives.  After stuffing their face with that famous dinner plate, apparently this year, they can now leave and...

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