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Strategies & Market Trends : Aardvark Adventures
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To: xcr600 who wrote (2510)11/27/2006 8:31:21 PM
From: ~digs  Read Replies (3) of 7944
 
The media sure is laying it on thick this year regarding the much ballyhooed holiday spendfest. In case you didn't get enough hype on 'black friday' , the evening's lead story for our sappy NBC affiliate -KARE 11- is <gasp>, 'cyber monday!' . With the teaser being, "if you don't know what cyber monday is, tune in at Six and we'll tell you all about it."

I find it interesting to note that neither of these two phrases came from the consumer's lexicon. We're being drilled with corporate speak which somehow became marketable, w/ the notion that as newscasters across the country proceed to ram a message of mindless consumption down our throat, we'll be compelled to spend.

Well, not me. I didn't shop on Friday and I haven't been to an e-tailer today. IMO, this rush-to-buy syndrome is to be forever looked upon with derision, for all that it represents is misguided hedonism.

Bah-humbug you say? perhaps, but for those that remember this episode.. perhaps not:
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