The Company Store's Perfect Execution of the ‘Flash Sale’

The "flash sale." Frankly, I've always wondered what those words really mean. This Wikipedia entry kind of cleared things up, while also cracking me up: "Deal-of-the-day (also called flash sales or one deal a day) is an e-commerce business model in which a website offers a single product for sale for a period of 24 hours to 36 hours. Potential customers register as members of the deal-a-day websites and receive online offers and invitations by email or social networks.