[ChicagoConservative27]

Let me guess,all on credit cards?

[willk]

If prices are up 10% year over year then it is not really a 2.3% rise in sales.

[doorgunner69]

Well, I bought a spare holster and BCG, just to get in the swing of things.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“marking a 2.3 percent rise year over year”

Adjusted for inflation, they spent 10% less than last year.

[EEGator]

Precisely. I believe personal debt increased in the last year the most in 20+ years.

[Spktyr]

I suspect the other half of the news will be carefully hidden:

“... at the expense of brick and mortar retailers, who found a massive year over year decline in sales”

Online is almost always cheaper and you don’t have to get trampled to death by obsessed cow-like doorbuster seekers.

[RandallFlagg]

And that’s just in food and gas!

[Ikeon]

people are spending like there is no tomorrow. There will be alot of "OMG! Did you see the Credit Card bill?". and a lot of people will be taking out home equity loans to pay it off..

.The used car market is gonna crash as people have to start selling their garage babies and their " just bought" cars with low mileage!!

( rubbing hands together- mrs ikeon needs a new car . February!! yes!!!)

[frank ballenger]

Americans are slobbering with adoration over Biden and his party’s handling of the economy. They will push him over the finish line to a 2nd term with the House and Senate with Dem majorities. Then end of filibuster, packing of Supreme Court and FCC shutting down conservatives on TV and radio. Followed by fully open borders and the end of the Electoral College.

Unless the economy goes into a bad enough recession to be understood even by the educably retarded American people.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yep. At least 90% on credit, which will now cost about 20% a year for the saps who did it.

[griswold3]

Remember when “Progressives” protested the Wall Street bailout by maxing out their credit cards and walking away?

[GreatRoad]

which is a small fraction of what the US Govt has spent on Ukraine payouts, bribes, kickbacks and grift.

[asinclair]

Really? I'm paying off all my credit card balances after the 1st of December with the money I did not spend this Thanksgiving buying season. Had to work during Black Friday, and stayed away from the electronic malls and boutiques.

[KTM rider]

and about 30-40% of online sales is spent on shipping costs

directly affected by the rise in fuel costs

and racketeering practices to get specil deals by the politically connected bigboxazons, so that the average joe pays more for shipping and cant compete and in effect subsidizes the Big Boxazon big fish as they gobble up the market share and raise pricepoints up and up and up ( because they can)

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The lives of non-Russians have never mattered to Russians. And the lives of even ordinary Russians have never mattered much to Russian leaders.

[Political Junkie Too]

I replaced my 8 year old backyard weather station.

-PJ

[SamAdams76]

New York City was evidently packed with shoppers. I would never to “Black Friday” in person but it was the front page of the NY Poat.

[SamAdams76]

New York City was evidently packed with shoppers. I would never to “Black Friday” in person but it was the front page of the NY Post.

[Organic Panic]

I bought some 50% off software deals. But nothing physical. For the most part... I stayed home enjoying a weekend of peace and quiet with the animals doing chores on the ranch.

[DannyTN]

Walmart looked like a normal day on Black Friday.

I ordered some stuff on Wednesday and part of the order was pickup locally. So I ended up at Walmart about 9am on Friday morning. I was expecting a full parking lot.

Instead it was like 1/8th full.

So after getting my pickup delivered outside, I went inside with a mask on. I want neither flu nor covid.

There weren’t even aisle displays, like on a normal black Friday. I head a cashier say, it’s because they’ve had everything available for the last two weeks.

[Vaduz]

Yes it’s why so many card holders debt meter is pegged.

Take a bow Joey