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POLL QUESTION: Will you shop on Cyber Monday?

It's Cyber Monday, and the best question is "why?"

In a bygone era of slow dial-up connections, holiday shoppers would race to work Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday and used the faster work computer to shop online during company time. We made a holiday of it.

Today, Cyber Monday is code for "more sales," and because of those magnificently reduced discounts, Cyber Monday continues to be a high volume day for online shopping, but the uniqueness of shopping online for this one special day has mostly lost relevance in a constantly-connected world of broadband and same-day-delivery.

Blame it on Bezos, blame it on Amazon, blame whoever you like for the loss of tradition, but in the modern world Cyber Monday has become a day to take advantage of special savings and little else. As a cultural phenomenon, Cyber Monday lasted about 20 years, technology's speed creating it and technology's speed ending it.

All said, isn't it good to have a holiday to celebrate shopping?


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