The state of Black Friday

[jon-nyc]

#AllFridaysMatter

[89th]

I'm surprised there isn't an Equity Day where you have to select your race in order to get better prices.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in The state of Black Friday:

#AllBLACKFridaysMatter

FIFY

[Aqua Letifer]

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 Mourning

Anyway, 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.

[Mik]

I have never and shall never participate in that vulgar display of soullessness.

[jon-nyc]

This came in my email today. Parque Bondinho is the site that includes Sugarloaf mountain in Rio de Janeiro.

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc Are they actually selling anything or just using the term to get more business?

[Doctor Phibes]

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.

[jon-nyc]

@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.

[Catseye3]

@Mik said in The state of Black Friday:

I have never and shall never participate in that vulgar display of soullessness.

Me neither!!! Well . . . unless the sales are like, really really good.