{"id":11775,"date":"2014-11-28T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11775"},"modified":"2014-11-28T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T17:30:24","slug":"how-black-friday-crossed-the-atlantic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/how-black-friday-crossed-the-atlantic-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"How Black Friday Crossed The Atlantic Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/112814_1724_HowBlackFri1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always been somewhat unfortunate that Black Friday, the biggest, more materialistic, sales period of the year, is preceded by Thanksgiving, a holiday where people appreciate the things that they have. Luckily Brits don&#8217;t have to grapple with that contradiction. The Economist wrote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This Black Friday Brits are expected to spend \u00a36,000 ($9,500) an hour.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon is responsible for bringing Black Friday to Britain. In 2010 the UK version of the website began offering Black Friday details.<\/li>\n<li>In 2013 a supermarket chain owned by Walmart also started offering Black Friday deals, and the holiday had come to life in the UK.<\/li>\n<li>Not all stores have accepted the idea; many are waiting to see if customers will be willing to pay normal prices after seeing the discounts on offer on Black Friday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the history of Black Friday in Britain, what experts have to say, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2014\/11\/economist-explains-22?fsrc=rss\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/economist-explains\/2014\/11\/economist-explains-22?fsrc=rss\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always been somewhat unfortunate that Black Friday, the biggest, more materialistic, sales period of the year, is preceded by Thanksgiving, a holiday where people appreciate the things that they have. Luckily Brits don&#8217;t have to grapple with that contradiction. The Economist wrote: This Black Friday Brits are expected to spend \u00a36,000 ($9,500) an hour. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/112814_1724_HowBlackFri1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11778,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775\/revisions\/11778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}