Post by TwistedLover on Nov 29, 2013 18:08:04 GMT -5
Black Friday
So today was, of course, Black Friday in the United States. The day right after Thanksgiving where many stores have extreme sales on their products, causing droves of people to visit the stores during the day to get as much of the deals as they can.
What I'm curious about is how you feel about Black Friday. About the deals, how it works and how people react to it. Or even about where it lies on the month, directly after the day where we're all thankful about everything that we have. What you think of the entire holiday concept, whether you like it or dislike it. If it could be done differently or not. Maybe even whether you'd ever go shopping this day or not.
If you don't live in the United States you can of course still talk about Black Friday, at least what you know about it. You probably won't have firsthand knowledge about it, of course, but I'd be interested in hearing your opinions on it.
For me I've never really cared too much about Black Friday, my family isn't into the deals that the stores have. I'm sure if there weren't droves of customers in the stores all day and that you would have to fight your way through other people just to get items that you wanted perhaps we'd go. But as it is there's just too much hassle, from finding a spot in the parking lot to just getting to the register.
I've never really felt much about where it lies in the year, directly after Thanksgiving. It was just something that happened to me and it wasn't until this year that I realized the dark irony that the most thankful and most greedy days of the year are right after each other. It was also this year that stores started opening for Black Friday on Thanksgiving itself, which was incredibly horrifying to me.
It's kind of like how Christmas has been slowly eating up both Thanksgiving and Halloween, now Black Friday is working towards swallowing up one of the most family days of the year, turning us into even more greedy pigs. When we were driving home from my grandma's yesterday we saw all the parking lots of the big stores that opened for Black Friday on Thanksgiving and how they were all full.
Que my mom bitterly commenting "So much for boycotting it, huh?" about all of those shoppers. It's almost painful to see how greedy all those people are that they would make promises to boycott something like this so that the employees would be allowed to spend Thanksgiving with their family as they should and then they just completely go against that promise.
Anyway, what do you think about Black Friday and what experiences might you have had with it?
I've never really felt much about where it lies in the year, directly after Thanksgiving. It was just something that happened to me and it wasn't until this year that I realized the dark irony that the most thankful and most greedy days of the year are right after each other. It was also this year that stores started opening for Black Friday on Thanksgiving itself, which was incredibly horrifying to me.
It's kind of like how Christmas has been slowly eating up both Thanksgiving and Halloween, now Black Friday is working towards swallowing up one of the most family days of the year, turning us into even more greedy pigs. When we were driving home from my grandma's yesterday we saw all the parking lots of the big stores that opened for Black Friday on Thanksgiving and how they were all full.
Que my mom bitterly commenting "So much for boycotting it, huh?" about all of those shoppers. It's almost painful to see how greedy all those people are that they would make promises to boycott something like this so that the employees would be allowed to spend Thanksgiving with their family as they should and then they just completely go against that promise.
Anyway, what do you think about Black Friday and what experiences might you have had with it?