Superior stores preparing for holiday shopping season

This week’s edition of your newspaper is smaller than what for many years was the Thanksgiving Week tradition.

Traditionally the Holiday Shopping Season began on the Friday after Thanksgiving, a day now known as Black Friday, and continued through Dec. 24. That is still true but thanks to the declining service provided by the U.S. Postal Service, we can no longer count on a newspaper entered into the mail on Thanksgiving Week reaching customers before the opening of holiday shopping on Friday. As a result, a number of advertisements related to shopping opportunities on this Friday and Saturday...