The state of Black Friday
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So Black Friday used to be... an in-store sales event the day after thanksgiving. I remember in the early 2000's my brother and I going to it twice (one at Best Buy, one at Target) and you legit could get really great deals.
Fast forward to today, it seems it's just a month-long time where websites have a "black friday sales" category you can click to browse current sales and promotions. And honestly, the deals seem no different than sales throughout the rest of the year.
Black Friday hasn't really been on my radar for the last 10-15 years anyway, but sometimes (like this morning), we are looking to get a new glider/rocker for the nursery and my wife suggested looking at black friday deals and that's when I realized what it has become.
What's next, Cyber Monday?
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Black Friday
The Friday of Color
The Friday After Thanksgiving
The Friday After The National Day of Mourning
The Hours Self-Identified As the Day After the National Day of MourningAnyway, whatever. Black Friday is the deadbeat dad of retail sales. Lumbers in unwelcome during the holidays and we're all supposed to act all excited.
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This came in my email today. Parque Bondinho is the site that includes Sugarloaf mountain in Rio de Janeiro.
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I visited the UK over Thanksgiving a few years back, and everybody was talking about Black Friday as though it was a thing, despite there being no Thanksgiving celebrated there, and also despite there being hundred of years history of nobody knowing anything about it. I'd never even heard of it until I came to the US.
Somehow, retailers had managed to persuade the Brits that this was something they'd always done.
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@jon-nyc Are they actually selling anything or just using the term to get more business?
@taiwan_girl said in The state of Black Friday:
@jon-nyc Are they actually selling anything or just using the term to get more business?
It vaguely mentions ‘sales’ (ofertas), so probably cheaper tickets on the cable car and cheaper tourist stuff on top.
