[GtrsRGr8]

I see that there are a lot of pre-Black Friday sales on audiobooks. And sales on memberships seem to have escalated, too, have they not!

Of course, "everything" audio long has gone digital, and there are practically no audiobooks on CD's anymore. As far as B&M (brick-and-mortar) stores are concerned, can a person still find any audiobooks in them?

Retail business at B&M stores certainly has changed in a lot. And maybe at no time more than around Thanksgiving.

It used to be that there was only Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. The stores would open at about 9 a.m. People would break the doors down, trying to get a Cabbage Patch Doll, or whatever was faddish at the time, before the stores ran out of them. Ah, the good 'ole days!

Then, Black Friday started becoming GRAYER, and Grayer, and grayer . . .

Stores started opening an hour or two earlier, and earlier. B&M retailers invented the day after Black Friday. Then the day before Black Friday. And, all the while more and more stores were open on sacrosanct Thanksgiving Day itself! (My chronology may be off a little bit).

And somewhere in there, the Internet turned everything on its head--probably more in ebooks and audiobooks than in anything else. Again I ask: as far as B&M stores are concerned, can a person still find any audiobooks in them?

And, while I'm doing this post about audiobooks, may I add a word or two about our beloved tubemonkey? Do you think that it is just coincidence that he has turned over some of his work to someone else just before the mayhem surrounding Black Friday? I think not. Most of him may be made of yarn and stuffing, but inside his head dwells a real brain.

Happy Thanksgiving!