"Was it them, Yogi?"
"It's ALWAYS them, Booboo"
I know online shopping has been the thing the last decade or so, but this never has affected black Friday weekend in the past. I drove around the past two days and the malls were literally dead.
I guess when people have to pay double the price for groceries and other necessities they don’t have room for gifts.
Perhaps people just don’t have the discretionary money they used to. But I agree, this whole black Friday thing may be a relic. I don’t recall seeing any advertising for black Friday mayhem. At some point how many cheap TVs do you need?
On Friday, I had to wander into town for a couple of parts to try to move my wiring project forward.
It smacked more of a holiday than ‘black friday’.
But to be clear, this was merely an observation of what I fully expected in this economic environment (the previous day was the most expensive Thanksgiving EVER; the only saving grace was my prudent/delicious menu choices spared me HOURS in the kitchen).
I used to love going shopping with my sisters on the Friday after Thanksgiving. We wouldn’t normally go to Walmart or other big retailers but would instead visit the smaller locally-owned shops in order to find special gifts before enjoying lunch together. We haven’t done that in several years now. This year we are meeting at a small town restaurant for brunch in a couple of weeks. No shopping involved at all. None of us can afford it. LOL!
The media is trying to spin the numbers to pretend that consumers are going all out this year and spending money in record numbers. They keep saying consumers are flush with cash from pandemic stimulus funds. They lie. They always lie.
“In resent years”
I know I sent those years! Okay, I’ll resend them.
I wonder how much impulse buying has been lost due to the lack of foot traffic.
"Was it them, Yogi?"
"It's ALWAYS them, Booboo"
nearly finish all my black Friday shopping, and never left my house
Resent
Box stores may soon be a relic. Those will be rezoned for affordable housing. Employees moved to logistics with higher wages, companies won’t eat those costs, replaced with drone delivery. Drones breakdown and need to be fixed by higher waged engineers. Will they eat that cost?
I’ve ordered most of my gifts online. Friday Imma make one run to TJ Max and Bass Pro and I’m done. The malls here are like Thunder Dome. I haven’t been to one in 15 years.
Interesting. I was watching a bit on the news this morning that domestic trucking in the USA is down by over 30% from last year. This follows with numerous companies in China shutting down due to a lack of orders.
Seems the American consumer just isn’t interested in buying cheap crap from China anymore and there is no need for truckers to ship goods that were never made in the first place.
Target’s “Black Friday” prices were the same as their regular prices.