So the biggest shopping day (if you’re in the U.S.), the day after Thanksgiving, promises the largest discounts, door-buster deals and once a year savings for avid shoppers. Hundreds of thousands of people pile up on Christmas gifts and believe they are saving a ton of money. But are consumers really getting a bargain? Big retailers like Toys “R” Us, Macy’s, Best Buy and Sears opened early to attract crowds with morning bargains, but is that enough to keep people like you and myself spending more this year?
Let’s face it. People are losing jobs, salaries are cut, bonuses are almost non-existent and the stock market, damn the stock market. I’m not sure about you but this year is a bad year for me in stocks. I did end up spending a few hundred dollars on clothes and electronics but nowhere compared to how much I spent last year. Money is tight this year and heck if I know what will happen in 2008.
So my Black Friday was less than favorable, how was yours? Did you shop a lot this year? What was the best deal you got?
2 responses so far ↓
1 rebecca // Dec 8, 2007 at 11:48 pm
I have an issues with this year the media calling the day after thanksgiving ‘BLACK FRIDAY’. Historically Black Friday was the day the stock market crashed back in 1929. So why did the media and the like chose to call the ‘day after thanksgiving’ / ‘day after thanksgiving sales’ ‘black friday’? Did someone forget to do thier homework before starting the hipe?
2 DateGuy // Dec 9, 2007 at 2:57 am
I looked up ‘black friday’ in wikipedia and you are definitely correct about the reference to the 1929 crash.
But reading more, I think the term ‘black friday’ is used because of the ‘chaos’ that such occasions bring. And as the retail businesses would have it, took advantage and abused the term ‘black friday’ and used it to increase sales - basically the term ‘black friday’ as the biggest shopping day is a gimic - imho.
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