# Take Cyber Monday and shove it. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2009, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-cyber-monday-and-shove-it/519415 "2009-11-30T02:05:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-cyber-monday-and-shove-it/519415/21 "2009-11-30T14:48:46Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [It’s not.](http://www.snopes.com/holidays/thanksgiving/shopping.asp) I also doubt it’s the day that most retailers go into the black for the year; if you have to depend on Black Friday to stay in business, you’re not doing things right. Ok, ok. I was wrong about that. **C3** already corrected me. At least **C3** didn’t cut off my sentence halfway through and obfuscate the fact that I went on to say it’s more important as the beginning of the holiday season than as a big shopping day. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-cyber-monday-and-shove-it/519415/22 "2009-11-30T23:00:27Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](#): > > No it isn’t. It’s based on the idea that Monday will be a big sales day. Why would retailers aggregate the previous four day’s sales and attribute them to some other day? Because many business’ remain closed for the 4 day weekend, and all internet orders that are received over the weekend are transacted on Monday. Making the Monday following Thanksgiving and artificial ‘boom’ sales day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-cyber-monday-and-shove-it/519415.md?page=1)