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Clarksville’s Black Friday morning looked more like Ash-Gray Friday

November 29, 2008 | Print This Post

 

While merchants regularly count on making forty percent of their yearly earning on the Friday after Thanksgiving. An early morning tour of local shopping venues showed that shoppers were not camping out in anything like the numbers of years past. With all the special advertisements for sales and discounts to be had, parking lots were distressingly empty. Here’s what we found at 2 a.m. this morning:

Our objective was the Governors Square complex, where one finds several of the largest retailers in our community: Target, Circuit City, JC Penny’s, Dillard’s, Old Navy, Sears, Toys ‘R Us, to name a few. Driving through the various parking lots, we found them — unlike last year — disappointingly bare of overnight campers. Target, Dilliard’s, and JC Penny were completely empty, and Toys ‘R Us and Sears had only one car each. «Read the rest of this article»

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Harry Potter’s spell enchants local Books-A-Million

July 21, 2007 | Print This Post

 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows went on sale at 12:01 am on Saturday Morning in stores all across the country. Clarksville Online editor David W. Shelton presents the events at Books-A-Million in Clarksville and at the Barnes & Noble in the country’s largest shopping mall, the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

potter-08.jpgNo matter how ‘deathly’ the ‘hallows’ may seem, nothing could hold back the hordes of fans that filled bookstores across Clarksville on Friday night. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling’s final book about the boy wizard, went on sale at 12:01 A.M. on Saturday, July 21, 2007. The local Books-A-Million store was one of several “Potter” parties held throughout Clarksville.

The store’s manager, Tim Lause, said this was the second Harry Potter release that he oversaw here in Clarksville. Employees were still selling copies of the book up until the final minute. Since the book wasn’t released until after midnight, fans received a voucher that would be traded for a book once the witching hour began. «Read the rest of this article»

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