Web creates year-round ‘Black Friday’

Bizjournals:
The allure of getting up before dawn to battle massive crowds at the mall on the day after Thanksgiving escapes some people, but a Greensboro entrepreneur is hoping to improve on the “Black Friday” shopping concept with a new Web site, TomorrowOnly.com.
The site will feature dramatic discounts for a very limited period of time from advertisers year-round, hoping to lure shoppers into action with discounts on the scale of the $350 flat-panel TVs and $280 laptops that awaken turkey-stuffed holiday hopefuls.
Mark Grochala, a former restaurant owner who said his business failed because of the high cost of advertising, said he got the idea for the site when he saw the line outside a Wal-Mart for a big Christmas sale.
“They had put all their toys on sale at cost, knowing that the people who came in were going to do other shopping, too,” Grochala said. “A small business can’t afford to […]

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