Comment on happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate
Babalugats@feddit.uk 6 days ago
Black Friday isn’t even a thing in Europe, yet I’ve been seeing adverts for for almost a month now, with two week long “sales” to generously allow us not to miss out.
It’s even worse in Australia. A long while back we had a really bad bushfire that result in something like 70 people dying called black Friday. More recently we had a bushfire that resulted in over 150 people dying and 400 injured called black Saturday
It’s honestly insulting to see these corporations come in and have these black Friday sales, showing that they don’t care or respect for the history of Australia or its people, all while they flaunt the masquerade of “It’s for you!!!”
I’m an American living in Canada. Black Friday happens here and it’s really weird to me. In the USA, it happens the day after Thanksgiving, which always falls on a Thursday. So Black Friday makes sense because many people have Friday off (or take it off) and so they have a day to shop for the upcoming holiday season.
In Canada, Thanksgiving does not happen on the same day as in the USA. It happens on a Monday in October. But Black Friday still happens the day after American thanksgiving, which is basically just a random Friday in November for Canadians.
The only thing I will mention is that I don’t know of any Canadian who lines up outside stores for them to open so they can snatch a crappy deal on a TV. I’m sure it happens, but I think most Canadians just need to go to work.
With “deals” that don’t even look like deals to begin with
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
south america is the same and the discounts are not even real most of the time.
we pay half off of double the price.