"Was it them, Yogi?"
"It's ALWAYS them, Booboo"
Posted on 11/27/2023 5:53:26 AM PST by Enlightened1
Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving. It marks the start of the Christmas shopping season. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices. Black Friday has been the busiest shopping day of the year. In resent years, it’s popularity is fading away to the point of no relevance in most States as online shopping took over in 2020. In this video, I'm going VERY early in the morning. As a Black Friday tradition, inside the retail stores on Black Friday to see the foot traffic inside the mall ,department stores, electronics stores and it’s NOT looking good for the retailers. (Video of it in the link below)
https://youtu.be/mrg2vjiS6I4?si=aTnZhnkdyuCEK35Z
I know online shopping has been the thing the last decade or so, but this never has affected black Friday weekend in the past. I drove around the past two days and the malls were literally dead.
I guess when people have to pay double the price for groceries and other necessities they don’t have room for gifts.
Perhaps people just don’t have the discretionary money they used to. But I agree, this whole black Friday thing may be a relic. I don’t recall seeing any advertising for black Friday mayhem. At some point how many cheap TVs do you need?
On Friday, I had to wander into town for a couple of parts to try to move my wiring project forward.
It smacked more of a holiday than ‘black friday’.
But to be clear, this was merely an observation of what I fully expected in this economic environment (the previous day was the most expensive Thanksgiving EVER; the only saving grace was my prudent/delicious menu choices spared me HOURS in the kitchen).
I used to love going shopping with my sisters on the Friday after Thanksgiving. We wouldn’t normally go to Walmart or other big retailers but would instead visit the smaller locally-owned shops in order to find special gifts before enjoying lunch together. We haven’t done that in several years now. This year we are meeting at a small town restaurant for brunch in a couple of weeks. No shopping involved at all. None of us can afford it. LOL!
The media is trying to spin the numbers to pretend that consumers are going all out this year and spending money in record numbers. They keep saying consumers are flush with cash from pandemic stimulus funds. They lie. They always lie.
I also got stuck behind a school bus one morning a couple weeks ago and got an idea of how many children are in my neighborhood - a lot!
I never see children playing outside but you can see them get on school buses on frosty mornings in their pajama bottoms, flip flops, and gold chain necklaces. I don't think these kids have ever really gotten a healthy dose of fresh air. They seem to be indoors nearly 100% of the time and I'm thinking that can't be good long term.
“In resent years”
I know I sent those years! Okay, I’ll resend them.
““In resent years”
I know I sent those years! Okay, I’ll resend them.”
We appreciate it. I know many of us would love to have those years back!
I wonder how much impulse buying has been lost due to the lack of foot traffic.
I think the whole "doorbusters" pricing stuff ended a few years ago after so many videos included mayhem and violence. There have been people killed at these things.
I noticed Best Buy was offering "Black Friday" deals a week ago. Nothing super awesome. Just regular sale prices.
‘xactly. My wife and daughter would team up with her sister and neices to engage in one of their favorite sports, black Friday bargain hunting. Dunno, that didn’t happen this year.
:-)
Yeah, no more door busters. You just loot now.
"Was it them, Yogi?"
"It's ALWAYS them, Booboo"
nearly finish all my black Friday shopping, and never left my house
Resent
Bottom line online sales up 7.5 percent barely ahead of inflation in other words flat.
Overall sales up 2.5 percent not keeping pace with inflation.
The malls were dead with declining sales in other words.
Box stores may soon be a relic. Those will be rezoned for affordable housing. Employees moved to logistics with higher wages, companies won’t eat those costs, replaced with drone delivery. Drones breakdown and need to be fixed by higher waged engineers. Will they eat that cost?
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