Is it time to put Black Friday out of shoppers' misery?

For stores, Black Friday looks like the survival of the fittest this year. On the day after Thanksgiving, customers have been known to rush in through retailers' doors, but with major merchants going out of business or shuttering mall locations, retailers are rushing out the door to find shoppers.
Those "doorbuster specials" are still there as megastores like Kohl's, Target and Walmart attempt to create scarcity and excitement with those "first 100 customers to buy a flat-screen TV" prices. But online shoppers may find those prices aren't that special. In fact, they may already have purchased some pre-Black Friday deals, which started at the beginning of November. Read more...

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