I remember previous years that every single tv commercial was Black Friday, social media homepages spammed with Black Friday deals, online retails huge spreads and sale prices on every item, news outlets pumping Black Friday stories to no end... But this year its like its not even happening. Anybody else get the sense that the hype is dead? If so what killed it? The economy is stronger than its been in 10 years. Why wouldn't there be a massive push to capitalize on this?
Never gave a phuck about any Black Friday, good riddance. As for the economic system, well, we concentrated societal wealth, guess Wall Street and the donor/"job creator" class bailed on mass consumption.
Interesting. We could take a look at Amazon Black Friday last year vs this year. Last year: Entire re-skinned website, massive savings touching nearly every single item, Amazon Prime bi-hourly deep discount rotations, minute to minute email/txt/push alerts on random deals, huge hype everywhere you turn. This year: A single lazy banner on their website indicating its Black Friday, almost no deals on the top selling or name brand stuff, the deep discount rotation has been reduced to 12 hour blocks, alert system seem to be removed or maybe I'm missing it, no hype. What would motivate Bezos to downplay Black Friday during a year of amazing economic growth?
WHY GO TO THE "MAUL"? It's a beautiful day, friends, food & wine are still around, the fire is still going in the fireplace........ Who wants to get elbowed to death with a bunch of frantic shop-a-holics for plastic geegaws?
You know why, same reason why all the department stores have shut down left and right. Amazon left wing company killed the mall experience. Thanks globalism.
Well check post #3 about Amazon. From my point of view the deals this year, including online ones, suck. The top items on my list, and the really good deals that follow, are locked out of online by one mechanism or another; "out of stock" "this item isn't available online". (PS4 for $175 ...but not online, IPhone 6s for $185 ...but not online, Bissell CrossWave for $199 ...but not online) The ads and websites advise you to go in store, so clearly there is some baiting at play to get you inside which makes sense.
I’ve always bought what I want, when I want. Why have one day of the year just for that? That makes people buy crap that they probably don’t need.
