[dfwgator]

Doesn’t everyone pretty much have all the iPhones and big-screen TVs they need, already?

[stars & stripes forever]

Once the over-spend cycle has been broken, it becomes easier to spend less and less each year.

[fatnotlazy]

And if they don’t, they can just go to Ferguson and loot a store.

[nascarnation]

Doesn’t everyone pretty much have all the iPhones and big-screen TVs they need, already?

A Target employee told me something similar. I was there Thursday night and folks were walking right by the stacks of tvs with screaming low prices. The only scramble appeared to be for high end iPads which were being sold with a big $$ gift card attached.

[stinkerpot65]

Maybe people are just tired of wasting money on crap they don’t need.

[Alberta's Child]

That's part of it. The other thing I suspect is that all of these idiotic stories about this store chain opening on Thanksgiving evening, or that store chain opening Thanksgiving morning, or another store chain opening continuously for its "holiday season" since July, are pretty much feeding a serious aversion to any kind of shopping by a growing number of people.

Enough, already. A lot of people are broke and/or up to their eyeballs in debt, and we can't afford most of what we buy no matter how much of a "bargain" it is.

[Nowhere Man]

Doesn’t everyone pretty much have all the iPhones and big-screen TVs they need, already?

True. The last TV we bought was in 1983, a 1982 Zenith, I have been using it since then.

[ex91B10]

All the money that might have been spent on holiday shopping is going to fund the increases in health care coverage.