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Black Friday 2008 will be
remembered as a slight, but pleasant bump in a rocky road for retail this holiday. Fitting, then, that Wii and its equally scarce sidekick,
Wii Fit, were the
top search items on the day. As it turns out, folks wanted to shop (172 million to be exact!), they just couldn't always buy what they were searching for. With Wii in short supply at retail, eBay merchants continued to turn profits on resales of the console with an average selling price of $349. Overall, online shopping
totals grew modestly relative to last year.
Meanwhile, a stack of Xbox 360s caused a
brawl at Walmart, and, in a macabre turn of events, an employee was
trampled to death by a frenzied mob at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, New York. In California, two men killed each other in a
gunfight that erupted at the Palm Desert Toys R Us. All convincing examples of why we prefer to
pay it safe from our keyboards:
Hellooo Cyber Monday![Image credit: Bruce On Games, Dec. 2007 -- same tune again this year, eh?]Black Friday: Wii crowned, economy still down originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Black Friday: Wii crowned, economy still down 
