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Without such maritime excitement, the staple news story for the day after Thanksgiving is Black Friday, the traditional first day of the Christmas shopping season, when retailing lore has it that accounts switch from red debt to black profits. True to form, NBC had Carl Quintanilla, of its financial sibling network CNBC, stationed at the Woodbury Common outlet mall in the New York suburbs. He properly put the hype in proportion: "This weekend accounts for about 10% of all holiday sales. The most critical period is still those last ten days before Christmas." NBC's Mark Mullen followed up from the toy manufacturing zone in China where he found a company called STR with a booming business. It is an independent American-owned testing laboratory whose clients include "big US toy companies, major retailers, even fast food restaurants who are giving away toys as part of a promotion"--all hiring STR technicians to make sure those toys have got the lead out.
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