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Hey ! It's Black Friday

by sanusense
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So! the holiday season is just starting. After having a delicious Turkey it's time to do some shopping.
What are you thinking to buy this Black Friday
#black friday deals
  • Profile picture of the author Jason Kanigan
    Seeing people stacked like sardines in rows outside not-yet-open stores at 7:30 last night was ridiculous. I understand there are some loss leader deals, but it looks absolutely silly. Why aren't people spending time with their families? Is that 50" TV at a discount really worth it??
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Originally Posted by Jason Kanigan View Post

      Seeing people stacked like sardines in rows outside not-yet-open stores at 7:30 last night was ridiculous. I understand there are some loss leader deals, but it looks absolutely silly. Why aren't people spending time with their families? Is that 50" TV at a discount really worth it??
      Well said Jason.

      I watched all the people wait throughout the night in London for the new Iphone.

      All I had to do was wait a week, my phone company called me, asked if I wanted to upgrade and then sent the phone to my house.

      Bloody site easier than "needing to have one first".

      Now I realise that's completely irrelevant as these people are looking for bargains but I don't care what the bargain is, if I was there, I'd be with family and too drunk to stand in a poxy line to spend money.

      Imagine if someone asks you how your Thanksgiving was?

      "Yes great, we ate then stood in a line for 4 hours so we could save some money on a sofa, even though we still had to buy it and wouldn't have spent anything had there not been a sale on. We didn't actually need the sofa either, it was just cheaper than normal".
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  • Profile picture of the author sanusense
    Nobody wants to miss the discount offers as they're never going to get it again. But, the good thing is that I'm about to buy Chromebook :p Happy Belated Thanksgiving Day.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      I think some of the merchants outsmarted themselves. They opened on Thanksgiving and in the middle of the night and here at least the crowds are gone.

      I needed some pet stuff but had no intention of going into WM or any other store today - but when I ran up to get a paper I found the parking lot no busier than a normal Friday.

      I went in, got the stuff I needed, did not have to wait in line at ALL...and I noticed many of the big ad items were still in stock. There were plenty of the "on sale" 60" TVs and everything else I'd seen featured in their Black Friday ad.

      Either people aren't buying as much as the merchants (and media) want you to think - or opening on turkey day ruined Black Friday here.
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  • Profile picture of the author powerofschool
    Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      Seriously?
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    • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
      Originally Posted by powerofschool View Post

      Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.
      That is so insightful! Do you have a Facebook page or something so that I can like it?
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Originally Posted by sanusense View Post

    So! the holiday season is just starting. After having a delicious Turkey it's time to do some shopping.
    What are you thinking to buy this Black Friday
    The newspaper, a loaf of bread and gallon of milk at the country store. Then back to the house. I've never shopped on Black Friday before and don't ever intend to.
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    • Profile picture of the author Horny Devil
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      We have a Black Wednesday in the UK this year. The 25th of December to be precise. Dad (muggins here) comes down the chimney to deliver the presents, and emerges covered in soot.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Black Friday disgusts me to no end. Bunch of little indoctrinated consumers that freak if stores close for one day pushing, shoving, fighting, and even trampling other people just because there's a sale on. This is worse behavior than cattle, and the elite that have had us trained to be mindless consumers love watching the people behaving like programmed little morons.

    The whole thing just disgusts me more than I can express.
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    • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
      We don't go out to the malls or retail stores Thursday or Friday. I'll probably need a trip for some every day things at the local grocery store, but we stay totally out of the traffic and wild shoppers. I'd rather shop online than get stuck in traffic and stores. I'm not sure why more people just don't go online to shop and save themselves a lot of headaches.
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    Would never go out to be with the CRAZED shoppers. Too dangerous.

    However there is always online - so far:

    Black Thursday: - ordered Vanilla perfume from France (half off)

    Black Friday: Got the deal at Big Fish Online Games. Deal was buy 2 games for price of 1 and not only that the second game brought my credits up to where I get a free game - so I got 3 games for the price of 1 (collectors editions at that!)

    Oh Lord - talking CRAZED I am starting to feel that - going to officemax.com and see what they have.

    Enjoy - shop til you drop - born to shop etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Ten
    Happy Black Friday! Woops. I mean Happy Thanks Giving! I am not going to buy much of anything today. Maybe I'll go to the store and return some clothing and buy a couple bottles of wine though.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    So the news is already reporting shopping deaths.

    Scientists concluded not long ago that humans were splitting into 2 separate species - humans and a sub-species. This is the most conclusive evidence we have that this theory is right on the mark. No human with a fully working brain would act like this.
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  • Profile picture of the author socialentry
    Online shopping for the win.
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  • Profile picture of the author taskemann
    Bought a new winter jacket online. It was only 20% off, but I liked it.

    Don't know if that 20% off had something to do with Black Friday though since Black Friday is an American thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    You won't find me in a store on Black Friday for two reasons. First, I do a lousy sardine impression; and two, I'll be monitoring my own online Black Friday sale. Unlike Sir Claudius the Grumpus, I will smile with each and every order that comes in today through Cyber Monday.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Oddly, I don't think I or ANY member of my immediate family EVER tried to go to a store on thanksgiving or the day after for anything.

    I MYSELF am AVERSE to crowds! I like my personal space and people go out of their way to invade it even if there are only two people near where I am. If there are 100, in the one little area of the store? FORGET IT!

    As for how people would act? WOW! I remember when "valley girl" came out. I recently watched a show purporting to tell a history of the 80s, and they mentioned that song. They made it sound like it was spoken ALL THROUGHOUT Calfornia, and even spread to states on the other side of the continent.

    HEY, I was BORN in california! I lived there almost 100% of my first 40 YEARS! I spent most of THAT time in the San Fernando ******VALLEY******! YEP, the SAME valley they spoke about! MOST of that was within 30 miles of the EXACT area they spoke about in that film! I once thought about going to Taft high school, and DID go to another school. BOTH were in the san fernando valley. I went to perhaps the three biggest malls in the area, including "the galleria"! The ORIGIN section of Valleyspeak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia may be close to the truth, and is a far cry from that film I watched today.

    ODDLY, I never heard people speaking "valley" there! Yeah, it IS true that californians may use "like" as a filler and to mean "about" more than many may, but it isn't like we are from the "moon"! (Reference to "MOON" zappa there! )

    Anyway, the SAME film made it sound like everyone in the US went nuts with money and would buy anything, etc.... Money has SEVERAL values! There is current perceived value and time value, but there is ALSO CONVENIENCE! HECK, convenience is probably the reason for it existing in the first place. Take the barter video I saw this morning.

    FISH DECORATION->WINE COOLER
    WINE COOLER->KITCHEN
    KITCHEN->SEGUE
    SEGUE->SCISSOR LIFT
    SCISSOR LIFT->CAR

    So they ended up buying a $9000 car for less than like $500(I don't know how much the fish cost, but they valued it at $500), but it took them FAR longer, and they almost didn't get the car that they picked out before they started. IMAGINE lining up just those 5 barters! Frankly, I liked the kitchen better than the segue! The kitchen was supposedly worth $1500, and the segue was supposedly like $6000 new, and the guy wanted like $3000.

    So would ***I*** want to constantly be hit by who knows who, possibly get sick, and maybe get injured, at the CHANCE that I MIGHT save some money on something I likely never would have thought of buying? Probably NOT!

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  • Profile picture of the author David Maschke
    I went to a Walmart on black Friday, and there seemed to be less people out and about. Everyone was courteous, civil and polite. I was the only exception.

    Higher prices and inflation might have something to do with it.

    Now, lets start talking about who to blame for this
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    • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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      Originally Posted by David Maschke View Post

      I went to a Walmart on black Friday, and there seemed to be less people out and about. Everyone was courteous, civil and polite. I was the only exception.

      Higher prices and inflation might have something to do with it.

      Now, lets start talking about who to blame for this
      Walmart is reporting less than expected traffic on Black Friday due to Black Thanksgiving day traffic. Talk about cannabalizing your own sales efforts. lol. Then there's the ever increasing popularity of online shopping for those who don't like to mingle with potentially violent bottom feeders.

      Online shopping sales seen jumping 15% - MarketWatch

      Amazon shines in Thanksgiving online shopping frenzy

      Online expansion drives IKEA sales growth*( - Industry Verticals )

      5 Stocks To Benefit From The Online Holiday Shopping Boom - Forbes

      Online Will Be Biggest Channel of Growth: Cohen: Video - Bloomberg

      Online shopping boosts UK retail - Telegraph
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        What I said was there were no DEATHS - and what Sal posted was a link claiming there was a death caused by Black Friday. The story was from 2008 - that was the point.

        the news was full of these violent episodes from just "normal" shopping
        The loud headlines lead to stories like the one below - was he shot because he was shopping....or because he was walking in a dangerous area? How was the TV involved in the shooting? Was the incident connected to "Black Friday shopping" - or a drive-by or theft?

        In Las Vegas, a man was was shot in the leg as he was walking to a nearby apartment complex after purchasing a big-screen TV at an area Target store, KLAS-TV reported.
        If police chase a shoplifter in Peoria on a random shopping day - does it make national news? If someone in Vegas is shot - or there's a fight in a parking lot in Illinois....are they reported as part of a "shopping pattern" on any other day? No - they aren't.

        Of course there are problems when there are more people in these stores - that shouldn't shock anyone. There are shoplifters, greedy bastids and people with anger management problems - nothing new there.

        If you post 4-5 links about one stun gun incident - does that make it multiple incidents? Nope - just multiple attention-grabbing headlines. "Mayhem", "violence", "frenzy" - headlines are a bit overplayed this year.
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        • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          What I said was there were no DEATHS - and what Sal posted was a link claiming there was a death caused by Black Friday. The story was from 2008 - that was the point.
          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          If police chase a shoplifter in Peoria on a random shopping day - does it make national news? That's my point. If someone in Vegas is shot - or there's a fight in a parking lot in Illinois....are they reported as part of a "shopping pattern" on any other day? No - they aren't.
          If he gets dragged by the perps car, yes, it usually shows up in Google News. I get all kinds of local news in Google News. I don't think anyone who reads news at all can't see a Black Friday "shopping pattern." It's just all too obvious to people who have lived long enough to remember shopping at any time of the year to be a fairly civil experience rather than America’s proud tradition of assaulting strangers during the holidays in order to buy more consumer goods,

          Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

          Of course there are problems when there are more people in these stores - that shouldn't shock anyone.

          ..... "Mayhem", "violence", "frenzy" - headlines are a bit overplayed this year.
          Exactly. So what is the point of trying to condense the Christmas shopping into one 4 day weekend if it causes this kind of mayhem, and yes, it is mayhem to me. I would not go myself or take my grandchildren out shopping on Black Friday weekend. I see no reason to take on that type of risk. When shopping becomes a "blood sport," count me out.

          I don't think headlines depicting violence from shopping are ever overplayed. I personally think it's bizarre that people can't pack up the kiddies and go shopping without at least thinking about personal harm due to the sales. Everyone knows that at any particular time, something bad can happen, but the way these sales are set up to bring maximum amount of people into a store all at the same time, is asking for it to happen and it most certainly does, year after year.

          I remember a time when news on holiday sales was if it was up or down ... not how many people were injured or killed doing it.

          These "big box" and other stores are whiny like little biatches about online shopping taking away market share, when it is precisely their own behavior that helps to drive a move towards a shopping experience where no one gets hurt (unless your computer blows up).
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        • Profile picture of the author Kay King
          the elite that have had us trained to be mindless consumers
          That's why I push back a bit on this topic. To me that sounds like an elitist attitude. I hate shopping but have friends who look forward to this shopping weekend. They love the crowds and the excitement....and they get good deals on things they want to buy for the holidays.

          Who am I - or you - to label them as "mindless consumers" because WE don't like shopping on Black Friday?
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  • Profile picture of the author hardraysnight
    my black friday is friday the 13th

    things do happen
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by hardraysnight View Post

      my black friday is friday the 13th

      things do happen
      Do you know how often a Friday the 13th occurs? Once every 7 months.

      There is a 13th in every month, and a one in seven chance of it being a Friday...

      Ipso Facto....every seven months.

      You know what's even worse than Friday the 13th? Friday the 13th at 3AM....

      Because you know what happens then.....Muuuhhuuhaaaahaaa!
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    Women Get Into Black Friday Stun Gun Fight Inside the Mall | NBC 10 Philadelphia
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    Hey, you know someone had to do it sooner or later.

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