Post-Thanksgiving Consumers Are Already Separated into Distinct Groups: Those Who

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Post-Thanksgiving consumers are already separated into distinct groups: those who shop on Black Friday and those who do not shop on Black Friday. A carnival of capitalism, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving, when retailers across the country dangle deep discounts to lure customers out of bed. Black Friday is also the official beginning of the holiday-buying frenzy. As retailers battled to draw customers into their stores on Black Friday, online merchants were plotting a cunning ambush-offering an arsenal of mobile-only deals intended to pick off shoppers as they wait in line. In 2011, with a record-breaking Black Friday-shoppers spent $816 million online, 26 percent more than in 2010. Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving, might have started as a made-up occasion to give underdog e-commerce sites a day of their own, but it has become an undeniably real thing-surprising even to the people who invented it.
Source: "Times Topics: Black Friday," New York Times, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/r/retail_stores_and_trade/black_friday/index.html, November 28, 2011.
The excerpt indicates that Cyber Monday and online sales:

• A) discourage the violent Black Friday behavior that has become more prevalent in recent years.
• B) encourage shopper loyalty to brand leaders who can offer lower prices than their in-store rivals can.
• C) split shoppers into two groups: those who like to shop on Fridays and those who like to shop on Mondays.
• D) further separate Black Friday shoppers into two distinct groups: those who like to find deals in person and those willing to get better deals online.
• E) sorts shoppers into groups that like to shop during work hours and those who like to shop during the holiday atmosphere provided by Black Friday.

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Left Shift

A bitwise operation that shifts the bits of a binary number to the left by a specified number of positions, effectively multiplying the number by two.

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A bitwise operation in C and C++ that shifts the bits of a number to the right, dividing the number by two for each shift position.

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A bitwise operation that shifts the bits of its operand and fills the vacant positions with the most significant bit (for signed values), effectively multiplying or dividing the number by two.