Black Friday
How I Get By: One Weekend at the Mall During an Eerily Quiet Holiday Season
"Maybe if you're worried about social distancing, you shouldn't be out shopping at the mall."
You Probably Shouldn't Shop on Amazon This Black Friday
"Amazon’s unchecked growth is a threat to everyone’s rights."
TikTok's 'Customer Service' Voice Trend Shows How We All Fake It at Work
The customer is always wrong on service worker TikTok.
We Buy Gifts That Surveil Our Loved Ones Because There Is Nothing Else to Buy
It's not just good marketing, we buy Ring cameras and DNA tests and Amazon Echos because we are taught the only way to show our love is through physical gift giving.
French Activists Are Dumping Old Fridges on the Road to Stop Amazon From Making Deliveries
"Work, consume and shut up, that is the message given to our youth."
Retail Workers Tell Us Their Holiday Horror Stories
Escaped snakes, Black Friday brawls, and yes, literal shit.
What’s Gone on This Week: A Bleak Black Friday Special!
Disgraceful new figures on homelessness and young people's mental health, for starters. TL;DR: capitalism is no good. Rip it up and start again.
This Is the Best Amazon Black Friday Deal, Ever
Jeff Bezos got the best doorbuster of the holiday shopping season: A bunch of property in Queens for Amazon’s HQ2.
Hackers and drug dealers are offering Black Friday deals
“Black Friday has had the unintended consequence of emboldening and enabling profit-seeking cyber criminals.”
81 Stores That Are Doing Us All a Favor by Staying Closed on Thanksgiving
Black Friday will be here soon enough.
We Need #GivingTuesday to Make Up For Our Gross Spending on Black Friday
Your guide to #GivingTuesday. What’s working, what’s not and what you can do about it.