Lines, Fights & Death: The Dark Side of Black Friday Deals

The manufactured annual event has stirred violent frenzies, and people willing to kill for killer deals

David Leibowitz
Provocate
Published in
6 min readNov 24, 2020

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Black Friday, 2013, Powhusku from Laramie, WY, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Black Friday will be very different from years past, as we sit in the comfort of our homes, sifting through mobile apps and retailer websites to grab discounted goods, cozy in our fat pants…

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David Leibowitz
Provocate

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