{"id":55759,"date":"2009-11-30T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-black-friday-shopping-pattern-2009-11"},"modified":"2009-11-30T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T18:35:00","slug":"chart-of-the-day-americans-are-more-broke-and-more-desperate-for-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/55759","title":{"rendered":"CHART OF THE DAY: Americans Are More Broke, And More Desperate For Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 15px 0 20px 20px;\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4a32b8394b543722009a9671\" border=\"0\" alt=\"button more charts\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4a32b8424b543722009a967a\" border=\"0\" alt=\"button chart prev\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chart-of-the-day-weekly-jobless-claims-2009-11\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4a32b84d4b543722009a9685\" border=\"0\" alt=\"button chart next\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Why were shoppers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/what-really-happened-inside-walmart-during-black-friday-2009-11\">wrestling with each other<\/a> on the floor or Wal-Mart for a cheap price on a new videogame?<\/p>\n<p>Really, why do they put up with such horridness?<\/p>\n<p>The answer: Americans are broke.<\/p>\n<p>As a survey from the National Retail Federation revealed, more Americans than ever intended to brave the Black Friday mess, and they intended to spend far less than in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>More people and more demand for bargains gets you total chaos.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"chartOfTheDay\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b140ee300000000005ea1ea\" border=\"0\" alt=\"black friday shopping pattern, millions of shoppers vs average spending, chart of the day\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Get This Delivered To Your Inbox<\/h3>\n<p>You can get this dropped in your inbox every afternoon as <strong>The Chart Of The Day<\/strong>. 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