# Help me understand "Black Friday"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-black-friday/381751>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 25, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-black-friday/381751 "2006-11-25T16:51:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-black-friday/381751/21 "2006-11-26T18:25:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Balthisar]  
So how’s their bankruptcy recovery going, then? Or was that English Gardens?  
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I left Frank’s in January, 1978, and there are no Frank’s outlets in Cleveland (where I have lived since 1980), so I was unaware of any financial hardships in the company. I knew that they tried a serious expansion in the late 1970s and early 1980s, buying out smaller outfits throughout the country, so they may have gotten in trouble through overextension. However, they had been in business successfully for over thirty years (staying in metro Detroit) and the practices they followed at that time were successful for their operation as it existed.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-black-friday/381751/22 "2006-11-26T18:32:49Z")

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Wikipedia notes that [Frank’s overextended](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank's_Nursery_&_Crafts), got bought out by some other outfit overextending, and finally collapsed, completely. Not living near Detroit, any more, and having no Frank’s on my route to and from Michigan relatives, I was unaware that one more of my former employers had gone into oblivion. (I wonder if I could get a job at Exxon?)

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-understand-black-friday/381751/23 "2006-11-27T17:12:03Z")

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myskepticsight:

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> it was crazy how much stuff we sold out of that most people wouldn’t of bought at regular price…I think a lot of people were just buying them because they were cheap ($3 after rebate) not because they NEEDED 3 memory cards then.

Darn tootin’. I ran my home network at 802.11b speed for two years and have been perfectly happy that way…but when CompUSA advertised 802.11g routers and adapters for $1.99 each, I jumped at it.

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