Black Friday (shopping) Prime Days taking place in 2016 and 2017. Other companies followed with "Black Friday in July" deals which were as good as, or better than, those in November. For many years, retailers pushed opening times on Black Friday earlier and earlier, eventually reaching midnight, before opening on the evening of Thanksgiving. In 2009, Kmart opened at 7:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving, in order to allow shoppers to avoid Black Friday traffic and return home in time for dinner with their families. Two years later, a number of retailers began opening at 8:00 or 9:00 p.m., on what became derisively known as
The Pool of the Black One been published in the collections "The Conan Chronicles Volume 1: The People of the Black Circle" (2000) and "" (Del Rey, 2003). "The Pool of the Black One", which appeared in "Weird Tales" magazine a month after "The Slithering Shadow", is a pirate-themed adventure story and occurs in the Western Sea of the Hyborian Age. The story begins with Conan adrift at sea, after escaping from a council of pirates in the Barachan Isles. He climbs aboard "The Wastrel", a ship belonging to a different pirate order who are bitter rivals of the Barachan ones. After a tense conversation with