black friday

Once the turkey has been put away and the last piece of pumpkin pie has been consumed, it can be mean it's time for one thing – going out to do some shopping! Here is a guide to Black Friday deals in the Quincy/Hannibal area.

I went Black Friday shopping for the very first time last year. Not that I had never been to a store on Black Friday, but until last year I had never gone out at super weird hours; I'd always gone to see what was left over, after the craziness had wrapped up. Last year I decided to give some of the craziness a try.

If we keep it up, there will be specific names for every single day in the holiday shopping season. It starts with Black Friday, then there's Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. I also heard something this year about "Green Monday," but I'm not sure what that is, exactly. The latest day name that I read about made me laugh. "Panic Saturday," the last Saturday before Chris

This strikes me as very funny. Not only is Black Friday the busiest shopping day of the year, but it also turns out that it is one of the busiest days of the year for plumbers. Who would have thought that plumbing problems would be on the rise the day following the biggest pig-out of the year?

I visit many businesses during the "sales" part of my job. Many of them say "business is down because of the economy," So many people say that consumers aren't spending what they used to. This is partially correct.

A few years back, the Saturday following Black Friday was designated "Small Business Saturday." The idea is to ask shoppers to think local during one of the biggest shopping weekends of the year. Several local businesses in Hannibal will be offering Small Business Saturday specials in 2013.

This year there have been two acts in country music that we can routinely count on for generating excitement with our listeners. The first is Florida Georgia Line, and the second is the reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year, Luke Bryan. 97.9 KICK-FM is giving you a shot at winning a flyaway to see Luke in Florida, and we want to know, "What's the best Luke Bryan song of all time?" Read Mo

We had a pretty neat incident happen last week. During the middle of Black Friday craziness, several of our listeners reported that Luke Bryan was shopping with his son in Hannibal's Wal-Mart. It's not every day that you come across a country music star - let alone one that has the current number 1 song in America - in an isle at the store!