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NYC Black Friday shoppers feel the sting of high inflation, soaring prices: ‘They say I’m getting a deal but I’m not’
Nypost ^ | 11/24/2023 | Georgett Roberts and Alyssa Guzman

Posted on 11/25/2023 12:50:35 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Black Friday isn’t what it used to be!

Shoppers in the Big Apple favored affordable brands like Zara and Abercrombie & Fitch over high-end retailers like New York’s famous Bergdorf Goodman on the busiest shopping day of the year Friday — as concerns about inflation hit a 12-year high.

Bargain hunters who hit the brick-and-mortar stores to try and snap up Black Friday deals told The Post that the savings are getting smaller.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: blackfriday; inflation; nyc; prices
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I warned my lady, told her to be careful about getting between certain Black Friday shoppers and retail displays of wide screen TVs.

One of their butt cheeks weighs more than she does at only 105 pounds.


21 posted on 11/25/2023 3:09:39 PM PST by JustaTech (My mind is the weapon. Everything else is tools.)
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To: SkyDancer
"Black Friday at Walmart:"


22 posted on 11/25/2023 3:29:27 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I just recently retired. I told my kids, Christmas presents are over.


23 posted on 11/25/2023 3:29:52 PM PST by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Lowe’s I went to was amazing busy.

The Walmart was no busier than any other weekday.

I bought a $3.99 hammer at Harbor Freight.

I’m finishing off the $3.46 bottle of Merlot from Walmart.


24 posted on 11/25/2023 5:43:39 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: roving

In the 1970s my mother said gift-giving was over in our family.


25 posted on 11/25/2023 5:45:12 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Shoppers who complain about inflation are ignorant right wing extremist insurrectionists—at least according to the New York Slimes, the Washington Compost, Communist News Network etal.


26 posted on 11/25/2023 5:55:03 PM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

My daughter and husband and their 4 kids, she home schools they are Baptists, decided two years ago to not do Christmas as it’s a pagan holiday, tree, Jesus was born in March, etc.

My husband and I were sad at the time, husband died suddenly last October so no more Xmas’s with him and few years before he died.

I’ve accepted it- we still get together like in January and just have dinner. So I don’t buy now for Christmas and I do understand how they are seeing Christmas now vs years ago.

It has become over rated with over spending for many folks. Buy gifts to get gifts. We have lost the reason for the season for the most part.

I will still go down to husbands family on Christmas day as we have always done.


27 posted on 11/25/2023 6:41:50 PM PST by Engedi
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To: cyclotic

This year, what I got for Thanksgiving was a bad cold (which I’m getting over). For Black Friday, I had scanned all the store ads way ahead of time to make up my game plan. I got a Tineco hard floor cleaner for a great price, before actual BF. I got a replacement for the Kitchenaid Artisan mixer the movers stole. This was $100 off but it also came with $50 worth of kitchen prep slicer/dicer attachments AND $105 in Kohls cash. I turned the Kohls cash into 3 pretty sets of earrings and a new toy for the cats. And I got a Costco card for the usual $60, but with a $40 gift certificate, which I turned into a Samsung tablet to replace my misbehaving Amazon Fire tablet. So, I think I did pretty well.


28 posted on 11/25/2023 7:32:09 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: Redcitizen

Fry’s. The bargain Turkeys are gone now.


29 posted on 11/25/2023 8:38:41 PM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Black Friday “deals” are basically what you would have paid for it pre-potted plant presidency. And your money is worth less and it’s probably smaller with less features than before.


30 posted on 11/25/2023 8:48:18 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: Nateman

Thanks for the info.


31 posted on 11/26/2023 3:17:03 AM PST by Redcitizen
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To: EinNYC

Yes!!! So happy you were able to find your mixer at a good price! And the bonus of those prep items. Congratulations!


32 posted on 11/26/2023 3:39:09 AM PST by AmericanMermaid
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