Black Friday: Is it just me?

even if it was free. i wouldnt go. tried it once 3 years ago...never never ever again

 

I was looking at the Wal-mart ads for yesterdays sales and compared it with walmart.com. The regular prices on walmart.com were up to $20 cheaper including shipping, a better deal without even leaving home.

 

It was given the moniker "Black Friday" because on this day merchants can go from red to black ink on this single day.

 

Back when I lived in Utah, I tried that Door Crasher stuff once. Never again, Thank You Very Much.

I'm actually a morning person and don't mind waking up at 4am or some other nasty hour. It's the crowds, bad tempers, and lack of parking that get to me.

Yes, I already have my xmas shopping done too. Although I'm strictly a Bah Humbug sort of person, some friends and relatives EXPECT christmassy gifts.

Maybe I should fly out to Vancouver and help Frank caulk his tubs. Already did mine this year ...

 

there are all crazy...besides to say that Black Friday is the day retailers get out of the red and into the black for the year is a joke...if you beleive that i have a bridge to sell you in downtown baghdad...

 

From CNN:

 

i thought it was called Black Friday because of the shoppers that get trampled to death at Walmart every year

 

lol. That would be Black and Blue Friday. When I saw the news video of people literally being crushed by the mob of shoppers, all I could think was, "What the heck are these people thinking?"

I'm sorry, I'd gladly miss the door-buster sales and pay an extra $30 for a Christmas gift if it meant I could sleep in and avoid those ridiculous, frenzied crowds.

 

When I worked in retail, many years ago, we could pretty accurately forecast the entire holiday shopping season by the sales volume on Thanksgiving weekend. If it was strong, we ended the year strong. If it was weak, we ended the year weak. So I think this entire weekend is a harbringer of things to come in the economy.

However, the one thing that is different this year is that there are only 4 weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas (shorter shopping season than some years) and on-line sales have boomed. It will take some time to gather the figures for the on-line component of shopping.

 

This is just more of the hyperbole and consumerism of "affluenza," the constant inducement to spend, spend, spend and never consider or invest long-term.

 

Well, to each his/her own, but I think they’re all nuts! Those are the same people that arrive at a yard sale an hour before the posted “start†time and try to haggle with you while you’re still setting up the tables.

We bought all of our presents online this year… and it was FABULOUS! No one in my family likes to deal with crowds - or traffic - so we used our computer to get everything. Twas great.