a new meaning to "black friday"

People jokingly call the Friday after Thanksgiving "Black Friday" because it is the busiest shopping day and the unofficial kick-off to the Christmas shopping season.

But this year, stores are worried it might be a "Black Friday" like the day the stock market crashed however many hundreds of points in 1987. A day where expectations are not met, a day where the tills do not ring quite as much as the stores would hope. A day where consumer fears may be reflected in a worse-than-usual Christmas retail season...