Comment on Amazon staff walk out in Black Friday strike

the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We don’t even have Thanksgiving in the UK, but we somehow imported Black Friday. It lasts all fucking month and the prices are about what they are in any other sale.

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  • SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    America’s #1 export is our stupidity. It was wild seeing MAGA in Poland and other places.

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  • IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We've only had it over here for about 10 years or so - Amazon started it and all the other companies jumped on the bandwagon.

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  • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re welcome! Being American in 2023 is like waking up to the fact that you’re in Negan’s colony.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Black week. Fuck i was put doing some light shopping yesterday and it was STILL black week. Over a week since black Friday lol

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• CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hadn’t heard the retail worker origin. I just thought (fell for?) “Black” meaning profit, as opposed to being in the red.

  That said I haven’t gone out shopping today in 20 years. People scare me.

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  • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    (fell for?) “Black” meaning profit,

    You’re correct The whitewashed version is 'its the first day of the whole year we are finally ‘in the black’ or not ‘operating at a loss’

    which is of course a bullshit statement by itself, but that’s just more ranting :D

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• LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are benefits for those that can avoid getting sucked into the consumerism.

  We usually look for things we need (for the house, the dogs, etc.) and compare to normal price and sales during the year. Anything on its deepest discount during Black Friday sales we buy, and in large quantities to stretch our money.

  For example, I just bought a buck of 12”bully sticks for ~$3.50/each and which is better than any other time of the year.

  We also like to shop the post holiday clearance, especially the shelf stable food items.

  The best way to ‘celebrate’ in my opinion is to identify the loss leaders stores have to draw people in and only buy those. Take advantage of the corporations.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    a buck of 12”bully sticks?

    A what of a what now?

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    • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ha! Missed that. It’s fixed now buck = bunch.

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And a bully stick is what?

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  • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Take advantage of the corporations.

    Well, unfortunately i can’t condone (or afford) this particular brand of subversion.

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• whofearsthenight@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Originally called such by the retail workers bracing for the worst part of the shopping season and what it brought out in the people they had to serve

  This stuck out at me, because I think a lot of us know the narrative of why we think it’s called Black Friday, eg: the day the companies go from “red” to “black,” which in accounting terms means when they become profitable.

  Turns out, that’s scam and the source linked actually suggests that there is a little more to it.

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