The Opening Of Christmas Shopping Season Is Expected To Boost American Retail Industry To Boost Employment Prospects.

In the United States, the first day after Thanksgiving is called "black Friday", marking the opening of the Christmas shopping season.

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Pepper water

This year's fourth Thursday, November, 24 is Thanksgiving Day, which means the Christmas shopping season begins on the 25 day.

Because businesses usually account for losses in red, black represents profits, and black Friday implies a wide range of financial resources.

Businesses usually offer discounts and other preferential activities from this day. Large numbers of customers often queue up from the early hours to rush in.

In front of a WAL-MART store in Losangeles, a woman suddenly waited for the X box game on the evening of 24.

Losangeles police officer J von Lei Li said that the store clerk was "opening a loading box and taking out the game machine," the woman began to spray pepper water to others to get the game machine first.

Vallely said that after the incident, the police found that the woman was more than 30 years old.

The police are trying to arrest her.

It's not just consumers who use chili water during the Christmas shopping season.

Security guards in front of a WAL-MART mall in Kingston, North Carolina, on the 24 night, ordered consumers to order electronic products in order to spray chili water to "disobedient" consumers.

Bill Johnson, a local sheriff, said that when he found that someone wanted to steal electronic products before the sale began, the security guards began spraying pepper water, "but the pepper water will not spray on anyone's face". No one was hurt.

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Armed robbery

Maybe it's not crazy to use chili water for shopping.

At 2 a.m. on the morning of 25, a gun robbery against a consumer in the discount season took place in San Lai, California.

Mike Thorbecke, a local sheriff, said several shoppers who had just finished shopping met two gunmen on the way to the parking lot, which demanded what they had just bought.

There was a clash between the two sides, a consumer was injured, and a robber was subdued by others.

The injured were taken to hospital for treatment, and the injury was more critical.

In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a woman and her companion finished shopping and walked to the parking lot, shopping bags into the trunk, who was tracked by a gunman.

The robber asked for a woman's wallet and shot her one foot.

The woman's companion took out a revolver and fired a warning shot, and the robber fled.

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Ghost of terror

In the cliff city of Arizona, police organized the evacuation of a WAL-MART shop on the evening of 24. The reason was that a suspected explosive device was found in the staff rest room.

The store was reopened after exclusion of suspicious factors.

Clothing brand in Manhattan, New York, a brand flagship store did not open on schedule at 24 midnight, causing a lot of queuing consumers unhappy.

Police said the flagship store was then intruded and stole a lot of clothing.

Wal-Mart Store Inc spokesman Greg Rohit said that although there were looting and sprinkling of chili water in front of some WAL-MART stores, shoppers in other thousands of WAL-MART stores in the United States went shopping smoothly.

"The more people who shop, the more likely they are," said Marshall Cohen, a market analyst at N PD group, an American consumer consultancy.

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economic outlook

The National Retail Federation predicts that about 15 million 200 thousand Americans will go shopping this weekend, an increase of 10% over the same period last year.

According to Broadcasting British Corporation, personal consumption accounts for about 70% of the US's economic activity, and retail sales from November to December account for 25% to 40% of the total annual sales volume. So this year's Christmas shopping season has attracted the attention of all parties.

Economic analysts predict that consumers' enthusiasm for buying from 24 to 25 will make a good start for the Christmas shopping season this year, which will boost the employment prospects of the retail industry.

The retail industry provides about 1/4 jobs in the United States.