Black Thursday & Cyber Sunday

By the looks of the title of this blog you must have thought I had the name wrong. Not this year! More and more stores are opening on Thursday (Thanksgiving) evening and allowing shoppers to shop. However stores have actually started to begin their "black friday sales" almost a week before actual Black Friday. Well-known stores like Herbergers and Macys have begun their Black Friday festivities nearly one week ago.
Cyber Monday also has been promoting the early bird sales that begin on Sunday instead of Monday. Walmart announced big sales will hit its website everyday in November leading up to Cyber Monday.  More than likely we will see both Black Friday sales and Cyber Monday sales continue weeks after the actual days if stores don't sell out of the products they intended to.
Although Black Friday is still an eventful day for shoppers, with continued extended sales offered by stores, we will start to see less and less popularity of just the Friday after Thanksgiving. Businesses seemed to have a hold on their prices in order to offer such large sales for such an extended period of time so it is likely we will see this trend continue into the next few years until the demand for Black Friday decreases.
The newest Holiday to add to the bunch is Small Business Saturday. As the name mentions, this is to promote shopping at small businesses on the Saturday following Thanksgiving. Small businesses are the only category of this infamous trifecta that are less likely to extend their sales weeks before and after the actual day. Now we have Thursday-Saturday to take care of all of our holiday shopping!

Works cited: "Friday Favorites - JK Style." JK Style. N.p., 20 Nov. 2015. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.