Black Friday

[amp88]

Greatest density of the word "like" ever in this like thread. Sounds like there's a lot of good deals, shame we don't have anything similar in the UK.

 

[Solid Fro]

I just got a 46" Samsung LN-S4695D 1080p LCD HDTV for under $3,000. Ridge Racer 7 looks gorgeous!

 

[jesterguy]

I picked this up today: Sony 50" LCD Projection HDTV

retails for like $1800 or something, I picked it up for $1080. Not a bad deal, I needed a new TV for a while now so I figured why not. Was playing a little FFXII on it

 

[Speedy Samurai]

It's Black Friday. Stores are no longer in the red. Although, they would be deeper in the black if they weren't blowing everything out for low prices.

 

[McLaren]

Dec. 26th is the worst shopping day of the year. People are wanting to use their Christmas money, return items, etc.

I usually wait until the 27th or 28th to spend my monies.

I don't see why either. Do they not know the stores are out of all the good stuff by then?

 

[GT4_Rule]

For a Canadian here...

What is a black friday?

 

[Danny]

Answer in post 13.

 

[GT4_Rule]

Then it's like Boxing Day, just a month earlier.

 

[Roo]

It's Black Friday. Stores are no longer in the red. Although, they would be deeper in the black if they weren't blowing everything out for low prices.

I was wondering exactly that. The shops are expecting to finally make a profit... by selling everything with huge discounts?

It is only a theory though.

 

[Kylehnat]

I was wondering exactly that. The shops are expecting to finally make a profit... by selling everything with huge discounts?

They're still making plenty of profit on their merchandise, just not as much as usual. And if you advertise something dirt cheap, the masses will come. And if you run out of said item, the masses will just spend their money on something else in your store. People who come to a store at 5 AM (stupid) do not leave empty-handed, even if they don't leave with the item for which they came. Brilliant retail strategy, but hell on employee and shopper both. This whole weekend is a terrible time to shop in the U.S. I went to the local Target this afternoon, and it was a madhouse. Too many damn people wandering aimlessly (and very slowly), with their damn carts and damn children.

And for perspective, something like 30% of a retail store's annual revenue comes in the month after Thanksgiving.

 

[Wolfe]

I work in retail at a clothing store here in the United States called Steve and Barry's University Sportswear. For the most part we are known as a quasi-Walmart and Old Navy competitor in clothing sales, particularly that of collegiate sportswear and our new Stephon Marbury sportswear lineup.

Hahaha. I walk through a Steve and Barry's every time I go to work. I feel bad for you, having to work in a place that plays annoying music videos all day long. My arcade is supposed to do the same thing, but my manager just doesn't care anymore, so the TVs and VCR are never turned on.

To be completely honest, "Black Friday" was awfully slow today. We didn't even hit our sales target, and it was a fairly reasonable one if I recall. Sure, we pulled down great sales numbers, but we were still behind last year's figures.

Yeah, even though my store serves more of an auxiliary function (parents dropping their kids off at the arcade while they go do shopping), we still usually get plenty of activity on Black Fridays. However, instead of being really busy, we just had to deal with some of the stupidest people I've ever seen, which really means something considering the 🤬 morons I have to babysit regularly, both young and old.

 

[YSSMAN]

Hahaha. I walk through a Steve and Barry's every time I go to work. I feel bad for you, having to work in a place that plays annoying music videos all day long. My arcade is supposed to do the same thing, but my manager just doesn't care anymore, so the TVs and VCR are never turned on.

We recently did away with our DVD setup, or at least that has been my understanding, so now we aren't going to be looping the same DVD 80 times a day. Apparently they spent some money in New York for some kind of satellite music video player, so you almost always won't hear the same song more than once every few days... And even then, most of the music is "better" than what we have had before, which is good. I'm just missing Sondre Lerche, Boy Kill Boy, The Killers, Panic! At the Disco, and Ben Folds...