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Foot traffic to physical stores fell between 5 and 9 percent on both Thanksgiving and Black Friday this year, while online stores prospered.

Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon touted Friday the economic benefits to the United States of shoppers partaking in “Small Business Saturday.”

Dozens of Black Friday shoppers were involved in a brawl at a Walmart in Palmdale, California, according to police. 

A man was shot at a Memphis Mall as bargain hunters began their Black Friday shopping after checking out an “attractive” woman.

Cyber problems for shoppers on and around Black Friday.

Black Friday, routinely one of retail’s busiest shopping days of the year in the United States, has spread to countries around the world. Chaotic scenes of aggressive shoppers battling one another for deeply discounted goods are making the rounds on social media Friday.  

Macy’s, often considered a bellwether for the U.S. retail sector, says Black Friday has been a strong opening to holiday shopping season.

Some of Amazon’s workers in Europe are protesting against what they call unfair work conditions, in a move meant to disrupt operations on Black Friday.

Home assistants are creepy and terrifying. Don’t buy them.

A snowstorm threatens to put a damper on Black Friday shopping in several Rocky Mountain states, according to meteorologists.

Technical problems with Facebook’s ad platform ahead of Black Friday risk angering advertisers yet again.

Facebook Ad Platform Crashes Ahead of Black Friday

Gun store owners claim to have lost approximately $70,000 in Christmas sales due to the inaccessibility of the FBI’s background check system.

FBI stats show Black Friday 2017 shattered the single-day background check record by logging over 200,000 checks.

We are a society that values and cherishes stuff. Things. Memories. Ask any household in America and I bet they would say they wish they could get rid of some, but the memories they have stored away are so much more important than more space. You don’t really realize how important these things are to you until they are taken from you, sometimes unexpectedly and harshly.

Christmas season shopping exploded to a record $5 billion in online sales this Black Friday, showing that the Internet is growing as a major artery of commerce nationwide.

A small group of Chicago residents protested during this year’s Black Friday shopping day, but the mere one hour of protesting and the size of the crowd have dwindled compared to the past two years of protests.

U.S. stocks rose higher on Black Friday as signs of confident consumers and a strong holiday shopping season bolstered hopes for retail sales.

Prominent black celebrities, including actors Yvette Nicole Brown, Meagan Good, and Dulé Hill, star in a Funny or Die video posted Thursday urging Americans to “take Black Friday back” by donating to The Collective PAC, an organization committed to ‘fund and elect 45 progressive black candidates in 2017 & 2018.’

Shoppers are turning out in stores and showing up online, signaling that this might be the greatest holiday shopping season in a decade.

Breitbart News executive chairman and former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon said in an interview with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily radio show that the United States must return to “traditionalism” when it comes to the holiday season while slamming the “disturbing” consumerism that has consumed Thanksgiving.

Police were called on a Marine veteran who was holding a sign on Black Friday advertising for Firearms Unknown, a gun store in Oceanside.

Video of a group of grown men kicking, punching and wrestling each other at a Northern California mall on Black Friday has gone viral.

The number of background checks for gun purchases performed on Black Friday 2016 broke the record for Black Friday background checks as well as the overall single day record.

A shopper in Tulalip, WA captured video of a Nike outlet store towards the end of the chaos that can be Black Friday shopping. “It looked like an earthquake just rocked the place,” Larry Downer told ABC. In the video, taken

On Friday, MSNBC covered Black Lives Matter activists and other protesters marching along Chicago’s Michigan Avenue to disrupt Black Friday shopping while demanding citizen oversight of the police department. Blake McCoy reported, “These protesters are on the move, shutting down

A 33-year-old man was shot and killed at a Wal-Mart in Reno, Nevada on Thursday evening in an apparent dispute over a parking spot.

Hours after gathering with family and friends for turkey and football on Thanksgiving, Americans across the country hit shopping centers, malls and superstores for Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year and one of the most crucial for retailers — but once again, the day was marred by scattered reports of violence and mayhem at stores nationwide.

As they have done for several years now, racial justice warriors have declared the busiest shopping day of the year to be #BlackoutBlackFriday and are urging black Americans and their comrades to protest injustice and the election of Donald Trump by not taking advantage of low sale prices and once-a-year deals.

2ndVote, a conservative watchdog group for corporate advocacy, is launching a campaign — #AnywhereButTARGET — ahead of Black Friday and the holiday shopping season.

The previous July record was set in 2015, when there were 1,600,832 background checks. But the FBI reports that July 2016 there were 2,197,169–an increase of nearly 600,000 checks.

With less than a week until Valentine’s Day, investors’ love affair with Silicon Valley continues to come undone as the tech-stock heavy NASDAQ Index plunged on the Feb. 8 opening down 3.5 percent.

The FBI reports that November was the seventh consecutive month of record-breaking background checks.

Late Tuesday afternoon, Minnesota Judge Karen Janisch refused to halt a large Black Lives Matter protest planned for Wednesday at the Mall of America.

Although background checks on Black Friday were record-setting, SK Arms in Midland, TX, says sales the day after President Obama’s terrorism/gun control speech were even bigger.

On December 10, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it is “tragic” that Americans are pouring into gun stores to buy weapons because America is already “awash in guns.”