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Snubbing the mad dash for deals is a luxury

As happened a year ago on Thanksgiving night,

Photo credit: Getty Images, 2011 | As happened a year ago on Thanksgiving night, shoppers are ready to go for the bargains of Black Friday. This was early Friday morning a year ago at a Best Buy on Union Square in Manhattan.

Ellis Henican

Newsday columnist Ellis Henican Ellis Henican

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Attention, affluent shoppers: Pre-dawn sales are for the little people! You don't need a $179 flat screen that bad!

Did you notice who woke up at 4 in the morning and rushed out to the mall? I didn't take my own scientific survey. But not too many millionaires were busting down the doors at Kmart and giving Black Friday interviews.

No one pulled a firearm at Swarovski. That was at a...

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