Growing up in the 70's the day after Thanksgiving was a big shopping day, but I never recall it being referred to as "Black Friday". And there weren't doorbusters and people linining up for hours on end to get in to buy deeply discounted cheap junk. Sometime in the past 15 years the big shopping day after Thanskgiving has come to overshadowed Thanksgiving itself. What a shame. In LA, some crazy woman pepper sprayed shoppers so she could get to some deeply discounted cheap merchandise at a Walmart in Los Angeles. It's just trashy.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...screaming.html