Amazon is starting Black Friday deals early. Like, now (Why???)

cnn ^ | Oct 4, 2021 | Jordan Valinsky

[BusterDog]

Black Friday isn't for another 53 days. For Amazon, however, it starts today.

Amazon has begun rolling out "Black Friday-worthy deals" to jumpstart the holiday shopping season that's expected to be chaotic because of shipping and supply chain issues. Amazon announced Monday "deep discounts across every category" including fashion, home goods, toys and electronics that will be available on a special webpage.

[SkyDancer]

In October? The whole season, rather the date we celebrate the birth of Yeshua has been taken over by secular business to just sell sell sell. The meaning of Christmas is now is meaningless since they took one day and turned it into a season staring out at one time by Sears with their Christmas in July just to sell. Go enjoy looking at your tree.

[Robert DeLong]

There are a whole slew of them, and it didn't make that suggestion either 🙂

[DEPcom]

Why?

“Amazon has begun rolling out “Black Friday-worthy deals” to jumpstart the holiday shopping season that’s expected to be chaotic because of shipping and supply chain issues.”

To increase Christmas sales, they must start early due to the shipping companies not able to handle the demand surge.

The demand: more people are buying Christmas online instead going to the Malls and Shopping centers.

[Brian Griffin]

“Why?”

Bezos is a great merchant. He turns problems into further success.

[left that other site]

Well, I guess it’s time to dig myself a hole and lay down in it till I satisfy my soul.

[Brian Griffin]

Snatching up as much money as is possible as fast as it is possible is a good strategy.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Or they think there is going to be big time deflation in the next few months.

There is zero chance of deflation in the next few months. Inflation yes, hyperinflation maybe. Hyperinflation in the long term, probably.

[TalBlack]

They want to spread the trucking problems over a longer time period?

[cuban leaf]

I’ve been following quite a few “experts” on the internet and some think we’re headed for deflation, some believe deflation followed by massive inflation, and some just plain inflation. But I think we are headed for a deleveraging, be it “deflationary at first” or “inflationary at first”.

“Deleveraging Explained in One Minute: From Definition to Examples”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqJuu9tzRn4

“The Biggest Deleveraging in History is Coming - and it can’t be stopped”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5st12hYUcDM

[CIB-173RDABN]

China needs the cash flow.

[Myrddin]

Perhaps they are anxious to sell and deliver products before all of the trucks break down and are sitting in repair yards waiting for repair parts that may never come.

[musicman]

"Amazon is starting
Black Friday deals early...."



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[discostu]

Amazon is always looking for excuses for sales. It’s how you clear stuff out. Also it gets people visiting the website when they otherwise might not. Just like any other retailer. White sales. Presidents Day Sales. Whatever else they can gin up Sales. The news has been saying there will be shipping problems so get your shopping done early. No reason for Amazon not to turn some cash on that.

[TomGuy]

Why?

Sales gimmick.

Some onliners start ‘black Friday’ sales even earlier.

I recall in the 50s and 60s some department stores running ‘Christmas in July’ sales. One store even started putting out their Christmas decorations in August.

[cgbg]

I think we are gonna be looking at wild swings of inflation and deflation, spot shortages of all kinds, and just plain weirdness.

Once governments start heavy meddling in economies all over the world, you can throw all the economic textbooks in the trash and just study chaos theory.

Governments will react to each new crisis with “fixes” that will cause the next crisis.

[zaxtres]

You throw the mother of all sales with deep discounts. Why?

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Because the company realizes the sale has drawn an increasingly number of people each year. And a few times in the past, the company's hardware cannot handle the amount of volume that occurs with previous sales. To avoid the shock to the system, the company then spreads this initial torrential flood wall across multiple days. It is still a flood wall but the company can then handle it with the current infrastructure. While it may seem like the company is offering deals early it is doing so to handle the influx of people and making money at the same time. If the company did not do this, it would actually lose money because it would receive negative publicity for its service when it goes dark because it cannot handle the influx of traffic to its site. So let's say you run a large, successful company where in the past the company has been put out of business for a couple hours to a day or two. How does those smart people you have working for you try to prevent the huge incoming wall of traffic to your company? You try to lessen the initial shock by lessening the influx of traffic but maintaining or increasing YoY sales. And that is how those smart people are trying to solve the issue at hand.

[Salamander]

Ha!

Hobby lobby had them out in July, along with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Fall and Independence Day/spring/summer clearance stuff.

In another month, the new year’s stuff will show up, if it hasn’t already.

I never know when I am, when I go in there.

[reed13k]

I was thinking maybe because of the supply chain issues getting stuff where it needs to go.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Deleveraging simply means reducing debt (the opposite of leveraging, which is increasing debt). You, I, and anyone else in the private sector deleverages by selling assets or using liquid funds to pay off debts. Corporate entities can issue stock in place of or to pay off debt (converting debt to equity).

For the U.S. government, the simplest way to deleverage is to devalue the money. That means hyperinflation (just like in Venezuela or Zimbabwe). The U.S. will still have trillions of dollars in debt, but when a trillion dollars won’t buy a cup of coffee, trillions of dollars of debt doesn’t mean as much.

[cuban leaf]

Yes, that is exactly the points made by the second video in the pair I shared. You can have deflationary deleveraging or inflationary deleveraging.

If you reduce the debt by printing chitloads of money it’s the latter.