Buy nothing day
Call it what it is
Submitted 11 months ago by TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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metaStatic@kbin.social 11 months ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
🤜🤛
justhach@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It used to be, when there were actual bargains worth fist-fighting over.
Now they jack the prices up leading into November, and return prices to normal with “SALE” in bug red letters, or offer a piddly 10%-15% discount and act like its a door crasher.
Fades@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No prizes anymore just scams
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Biggest prize is you get to pay full price as if it’s being sold on a normal day and you get a chance of being trampled and killed because someone wants a new TV to replace the old model they got brand new a month ago!
pleb_maximus@feddit.de 11 months ago
Is this a joke I’m too Yuropean to understand?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s about the Friday after thanksgiving (which was yesterday) traditionally being a day where stores put some attractive wares on special and then people turn into absolute stampeding cattle and brawling gorillas getting said wares before the unnecessarily limited supply runs out.
Afaik, it’s not unusual for at least a couple people to be trampled or otherwise killed by this absolutely unhinged consumerism frenzy.
Here’s to hoping that it wasn’t that bad this year though, as the specials were apparently crappy and thus not worth committing involuntary manslaughter over 🤞🤞
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t talk pish you two, plenty of places have Black Friday sales in Europe, have done for years now.
It’s just there have never been shoppers fighting over shiny trinkets because we’re not infantile fuckin barbarians
pleb_maximus@feddit.de 11 months ago
I know. I pretended to not know to let my smug Yuropeanness shine.
Real talk though, I know we have more than enough problems of our own and love to import the most stupid ones from you guys. Although we thankfully passed on this particular madness.
Still, thanks for the explanation. Might be helpfull for those who don’t know and are too afraid to ask.
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
The main thing missing from the other comments is that the Brawling didn’t become mainstream until the 2005 telecom bubble and the 2008 financial crisis. People are more willing to fistfight over hearing aid batteries when they have gone from prosperity to moderate financial discomfort within a year or two. Now things just suck in general. No point in punching aomeone over a flat-screen TV when you could be using that money for rent. I haven’t seen anything crazy happen on black Friday in years
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Hog pen with large screen TVs.
AnonWyo@startrek.website 11 months ago
Also known as Buffalo Wild Wings.
cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
More like loot boxes than prizes nowadays
pancakesyrupyum@kbin.social 11 months ago
Haven’t seen a particularly good BF deal in quite a few years.
Still punch the clerk at KMart though, it’s tradition.
LemmyFeed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The tradition is to get drunk off Bailey’s by 9am and then punch the Kmart clerk.
AnonWyo@startrek.website 11 months ago
Where you finding a K-Mart these days?
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you’re looking for something specific from a brand you trust, Amazon (despite how shit of a company they are) has had some good deals. But you have to know what you’re looking for, rather than those random-ass Chinese brands like AVUKIO or KAPNU or whatever.
dingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I dunno. Even Amazon doesn’t seem to have good Black Friday sales anymore. The sale prices are often a lie on their website nowadays when they used to not be. It will say the price is a Black Friday sale price, but really it’s always that price.
Even though sales aren’t as good anymore, at least brick and mortar stores seemed to have stopped the Purge-like frenzy of real life battle royales for products on Black Friday. Everything is much less insane because the deals aren’t as good and the time frame for the deals is longer.