The NRF says 33 million Americans will shop on Thanksgiving (and Clarence predicts…)

Click to enlarge: Black Friday crowd swarms outside Urban Outfitters in 2011. See the video here >

Despite the prediction that Thanksgiving weekend shopping will be flat:

"As many as 140 million Americans plan to shop in stores or online during Thanksgiving weekend, slightly less than the 147 million who planned to do so last year, according to a new NRF survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics."
--National Retail Foundation, source >

Clarence predicts:
In the life time of my children or grandchildren, Christmas will suffer the same fate as Thanksgiving, meaning it will become a meaningless day off devoted primarily to shopping and retail statistics.

[2103-11-15]

Clarence predicts:
In the life time of my children or grandchildren, gay marriage will become formally and legally accepted and will assume a position alongside premarital sex and infidelity as an unacceptable but acknowledged state in which some Christians live. (Please don't confuse this with my moral stand on the issue; this is just a prediction.)

[2103-11-18]

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