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Black Friday used to be the hunger games.
I mean… you can still beat someone up, if that helps…
And if you need a bargain, once they’re on the ground you can take their phone
EDIT: Ok, I’ll admit it… this sounds bad. But hear me out. What if we had just one day every year when it’s acceptable to do something like this?
Yes, let’s glorify past rampant consumerism over current rampant consumerism. Absolutely brilliant.
Back before I knew Amazon was cartoon supervillain evil, I caught a lightning deal on black friday for an Xbox 360 for like $50, at a time when you couldn’t get one at all. After that every black friday deal has paled in comparison, so I just don’t leave the house or buy anything online that whole weekend.
Things are so bad that the expression isn’t even “we used to be a proper country” anymore. It’s now “we used to be a country.”
Black Friday is so dead they’ve got Bruce Campbell fighting it.
Black Friday is so dead, paleoanthropologists are arguing over whether it was fully bipedal or not.
Now it’s everything for half the double.
Kohl’s pricing method right there.
Is that the Kohl’s pricing method? My local store seems to be doing it wrong. They are selling for double the double.
Price trackers are great for this because you can see when they jacked it up a month or two prior so they can bring it down as a black friday sale.
The new meta is to make a entirely new model just for black Friday that is not as good as the OG somehow.
I work on the corporate side of retail and it makes me so frustrated that so many people fall for this bullshit. Most companies are planning these sales a year in advance and making cheaper versions of their product to sell thousands of units. People buying the bullshit year after year just encourages company’s to be shitty.
Black Friday is now over a month long so it kinda lost it’s importance to bargain shoppers.
And they mark it up 30% 2 weeks before.
This is illegal in my country and stores are actually getting fines for doing this.
It’s illegal in the US, too, but no one is actually getting punished, and there are ways around it (you just have to mark it up for long enough).
That would make it 9% off
In order to cancel out, they first need to mark it up 43% before marking it down 30%
I actually did try to price gouge NPCs in Supermarket Simulator, so I am aware, i just didn’t want to figure out the math. 😆
you know what i meant lol
And it’s a special model made specifically out of the cheapest parts for black Friday.
Thinking more about it, it wouldn’t surprise me if that was one of the earlier steps in the enshitification process, followed by a “wait, we don’t have to use final sale arguments to fend off the customers that realized it was junk when they brought it home because so few even notice and think the only important features on a TV are size and maybe resolution”, followed by a “what else can we cheap out on?”.
What if they mark it up earlier than 2 weeks and make you thing that is the new normal price, then Black Friday the markup out of the price?
yea black friday pricing havent been worth it since pre-pandemic. around that time they started increasing the price of product about 2-3 times about a month or two prior that way they can show a “30% off” deal, that way you can spend 270% of the price instead of 100% of the price.
Then they used the lack of event sales as the excuse of why it isn’t worth doing decent black friday deals because shocker, as it turns out if someone is buying a high ticket item, chances are they have done the research and have been wanting it, so therefore than can see the TV worth 200$ being sold at 300$ at a 30% off is just a pure scam.
It’s also the reasoning that many retailers sell specific event merchandise using its own UPC. They don’t want the consumer being able to do the research to see they are being ripped off.
You can still shoot people over a microwave. It’s in the constitution. 🇨🇰
The constitution of checks flag AustralEU?
I was looking for US flag but I found this one first and decide it’s close enough. It’s Cook Islands BTW.
I was looking for US flag but I found this one first and decide it’s close enough.
At least you avoided the accidentally Liberian meme 🤷🏻
It’s Cook Islands BTW.
Alright, imma let you cook islands
You just tell the coppers it was a wallaby and that he ran that-a way.
Ya nong, that’s a dead giveaway! Wallabies don’t run, they hop. Strewth.
Just as the founding fathers intended
“Every citizen is hereby bound to adhere to the microwave amendment, which states that you have to shoot each other to get the best deals on black friday for a microwave!”
A microwave was the first kitchen appliance I shot, way back in the 90s.
we still talk about you
If you doubled the price last week, you can mark it 50% off and still make all the profit!
The deals were never good, you just have the Internet now so it’s easier to spot the scam.
