Ha - I knew it...
Ha! You stupid consumers! You spend your money foolishly! It’s like Bill Clinton said – Every time we give you a tax break, you spend the money badly! Socialism is the cure for this wayward behavior.
So what you are saying is that anybody who would go near a shopping mall on the day after Thanksgiving is a fool, or a female.
So what you are saying is that anybody who would go near a shopping mall on the day after Thanksgiving is a fool, or a female.
Ok, who here didn’t know that? Everyone with your hands up, I propose you never shop again.
Bravo Sierra, over. I bought my wife a Kitchenaid mixer for only $130 that day. It normally sells for $200 or more.
“To be included in the survey, an item had to appear in the circulars for three of the five weekends before Christmas”
That would eliminate almost 90% of Black Friday ads. They always get the pre prints at the last minute and send out emails.
I’ve been a black friday shopper for 5 years, and have never been let down. Are there instances of lower prices? Of course. As a former salesman, I always said, if you shop long enough, hard enough, and make it your mission in life to beat this price, you will.
Some stores have “secret black friday” sales. Like Wal Mart, Best Buy, and Costco. You’ll only get those prices, which are unbeatable, by email from black friday.
This year, I bought two Toshiba Laptops with a Cannon printer for $229.00 each at Best Buy.
Like always, do your homework, and let the shopping begin! :)
My wife and MIL did Black Friday for the 1st time this year and they weren’t at all disappointed in their bargains.
My 22” monitor at Target for $167 certainly was.
The real bargains come right before Christmas. Depending on how well they’ve done, they start their ‘after Christmas’ sales a day or two before the Holiday. (One year, when the economy was really bad, they started about a week before.)
Armchair research; had they actually gone out to the stores, fought the crowds and then reported on how many shops were actually stocked with what they advertised, they would have learned that the real plan is to catch the disappointed folks and hope they buy the dusty old crap that had just been wiped off and lined up at the checkout counter.
I don’t call “Christmas shoppers” “amateur shoppers” for nothing. :-)
...Gonna strike all the big red words
From my little black book
Gonna do just what I please
Gonna wear no socks and shoes
With nothing to do
But feed all the Kangaroos...
I found the regular prices for some Canon cameras at Amazon were a lot lower than Black Friday prices.
There’s a FReeper who slipped a salesperson some dough a couple of days before black friday to set aside a couple of door busters for later pickup.