Here's How Much Everyone Drank The Night Before Thanksgiving
Analyzing how much people spent at bars using Square’s credit card reader data.
Across America, Thanksgiving Eve is a well-known night for drinking.
You're back home with nothing to do, and all your childhood friends (or, as The Onion puts it, "every smug and unlikable asshole [you] ever went to high school with") are hitting the bars. Thanks to Square, we now have the receipts.
Square, which processes credit card payments, gathered payment data from the bars that use its service.
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According to Square, people drink a lot more on the night before Thanksgiving, when compared to the week before that.