Posted on 11/27/2021 11:40:27 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Despite fewer juicy deals, Black Friday shoppers dutifully opened their wallets, and for the first time ever, online sales fell as crowds returned to stores.
Holiday-hungry consumers spent $8.9 billion online Friday, according to Adobe Analytics. That was a slight drop from $9 billion last year.
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Just take stuff without paying.
Babylon Bee noted that discounts are 100%! Grab them while you can!
I usually go and buy some stuff that I want on Black Friday. I looked through the ads and there was nothing that really got my attention.
Same here. I bought a few things leading up to black Friday
Being bald, hats are something I wear with great frequency. I really like wide brim wool hats but they need to have a liner since I’m sensitive to wool.
I picked one out the other day on my Christmas list. (OK, it basically had one item on it)
My wife ordered it yesterday on a BF special, so I guess I lied. We did buy something.
So have mall shootings on Black Friday. It's a holiday tradition.
I walked through a local Walmart about noon Friday. Wow, just about every big deal still had inventory. Some of the pallets were 80 percent still full. In the past, each pallet of thr deals weee gone in like 15 min.
A woman I knew actually had the seasonal part time job at a big department store of coming in really early as part of a team cutting off all the price tags and replacing them with the sale price discount ones before the store opened on sale days.
Some item might already be $9 but would be called “$12” and reduced on sale for $8.50 and look excitingly discounted. Or even become $10.
Wal Mart items on pallets would have been gone.....
With two overweight women punching, elbowing, hair pulling and then slamming each other into display shelves with merchandise flying in all directions as they finished by grappling on the floor and screaming.
Greeter: Enjoy your shopping day at our Wal Mart today.
And I’d be on the sidelines chanting Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
“Black Friday” crowds..... isn’t everything free???
Got a couple Roombas for $175 each, and a few other good deals we waited for. Nothing amazing, and no mention of stores opening crazy early. Seems most stores have given up on it, a few discounts aside.
This year my main concern is getting gifts before the supply chain dries up. Expecting that’s the case for many.
Otherwise, meh...we went home and had coffee with oatcakes.
I didn’t go out.....stayed home in the Afterglow of Thanksgiving. Napped out and watched great movies.
A few years ago I went out to see what it was like......left at 5:00 ....once was more than enough. Crazy people and terrible crowds!
they were never there, I bought a tv on black Friday last year and took the receipt back 3 times to get the price that week right before christams
As one who frequented Black Friday madness over the years, I’d have to say that this years crowds were lackadaisical at best.
Many folks seem to be holding on to their funds.
I almost bought two packages of socks.
I put them back as being of insufficient quality.
I normally don’t care about Black Friday, although the wife usually likes to get some stuff for Christmas presents.
I did look for a new TV, ours went out months ago and the wife isn’t too happy with the dusty 32” temp tv. Decent prices on a 65” were not to be found anywhere. Some places had some cheap Element or Skyworth TVs for $300, but they only had 4-5 per store, and most of them preordered (probably by employees’ friends who knew what specific model was gonna be on sale, and then they can price-match on sale day). After that, it was at least $500 for a decent brand 65”. Which is what their normal pricing used to be a year ago....
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