NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Full News Archive

• Headline: Retailers Rethink Black Friday Strategies. Impact: Extending deals beyond Black Friday inadvertently led to the invention of 'Black Weekend,' 'Black Week,' and eventually 'Black Month'—just in time for Christmas shopping fatigue.. Fact: Retailers love long weekends almost as much as they love making you feel guilty for not spending every waking minute shopping..
• Headline: U.S. Businesses Prepare for Emission Regulations. Impact: The impending emission rules sparked a rush for cleaner technologies, which in turn led to the rise of eco-friendly coffee cups that still somehow cost seven bucks.. Fact: If businesses complied without complaint, they’d probably have to change their name to 'Huggers of the Earth Inc.'.
• Headline: Heritage Turkeys Selling Briskly, Even at $10 a Pound. Impact: The brisk sales of heritage turkeys set off a culinary arms race, where chefs began competing to create the most extravagant Thanksgiving meal, eventually leading to a global turkey shortage and a national crisis of stuffing.. Fact: Heritage turkeys: because who doesn’t want to pay ten bucks a pound for a bird that tastes like grandma’s love and takes six months to raise?.
• Headline: U.S. Seeks More Allied Troops for Afghanistan. Impact: The U.S. plea for more troops resulted in a series of diplomatic negotiations that made the phrase 'sending help' the most bureaucratically convoluted concept in history.. Fact: In military strategy, asking for more troops is just code for 'We need more bodies to fill these awkward photo ops.'.