Black friday News

Recession-weary shoppers used smartphones and tablet computers to home in on the best deals, but the 2013 Christmas shopping season still got off to a disappointing start, analysts say.

Bloomington - A man who says he was just trying to spread holiday cheer ended up being arrested on Black Friday for "making it snow" dollar bills onto the heads of Mall of America shoppers.

Avon - This year’s Black Friday was a resounding success financially, but protests raged across the nation. Activate CT organized one such protest in Connecticut. Two of the organizers discuss the protest in detail with Digital Journal.

How did American shoppers deal with Black Friday madness? Find out why some doctors are bumping fists instead of shaking hands. The double suicide of an elderly French couple has provoked emotional debate across the world. Welcome to this week's TopFinds.

If you plan on searching YouTube for viral videos of crazed shoppers toppling over one another to get into a store, you may be sightly disappointed this year.

Toronto - Police conducted several raids, arrested 21 people, and seized more than $6.5 million worth of counterfeit goods including drugs, cosmetics, electronics, and transit tokens.

For some reason, certain businesses in Spain have decided to follow the US tradition of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, in trying to get shoppers to spend plenty of "dinero" before the festive season.

On Thursday a police officer responded to a call of alleged shoplifting at a Chicago store. The officer shot the driver of a car that was dragging another cop.

This year's "Brown Thursday" and "Black Friday" events have been riddled with chaos and violent altercations. One example is a fight over a parking space in Virginia that ended in a man being stabbed.

For some, Black Friday just hasn’t been worth braving the angry crowds to save a few bucks in the past few years. But online retailers open the sales up for even the most crowd-phobic among us. Get your coupon codes, right here.