USA Today

For this weeks blog, i will be doing " Review an Article from the USA Today Money Page. Include a link to the article and then your review of what was presented". Black Friday effect: Weekend sees rise in shoppers, retail federation says 195 million shoppers visited stores and websites over the weekend. Americans spent an estimated $41.2 billion over the holiday weekend, an amount on par with last year. Which in other words meant that sales went up a crap load for businesses around the country. The weekend proved that shoppers were willing to spend on bargains, it might not reveal much about the rest of the holiday shopping season. This was a big shock for many seeing as how the economy is going down the drain money wise as we speak. To have sales go up a bunch once again, Retailers have gathered up and came up with "Cyber Monday".