A Year in Oaxaca

A Year in Oaxaca

Mexican Black Friday

Picking up a treadmill almost ends in disaster.

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Jacob Dean
Dec 04, 2024
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Sometimes you write a newsletter from the safety of your office and sometimes you write it from inside a gigantic Mexican warehouse. Monday was a warehouse day, where I had gone very unenthusiastically to pick up a purchase we made during Buen Fin, Mexico’s equivalent to Black Friday.

Mexico doesn’t have an actual Black Friday because it doesn’t celebrat…

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