The "Good End" Approaches

As soon as the Day of the Dead was over, the shopping malls in Mexico City all put up their Christmas decorations.  Below are a few photos taken at the Reforma 222 Mall.

This coming weekend is more than just a long weekend.  (Next Monday is a legal holiday... Revolution Day.)  It is also "el Buen Fin" (literally the "good end" or the "good weekend".)  It is the official beginning of the Christmas shopping season and is copied after "Black Friday" in the U.S.  All the stores are advertising their special sales for that weekend.  Alejandro, however, says that the "Buen Fin" is a bit of a hoax.  He says that the stores hike their prices prior to the shopping season, and then make it seem as if they are giving bigger discounts than they really are for the "Buen Fin".