Black Friday, the day where retail chains make up their yearly revenue quotas. Why do people insist on leaving their families, waiting out in the cold for hours for “deals” that are just sand thrown in our faces? Realize that these so called deals are no longer worth our time or money. Were they ever? Maybe. When the tradition of Black Friday first started. But now? No. I understand that we in the United States are consumers but lets be a little smarter about our purchasing habits. Lets break down a Black Friday ad.
On the front cover we have a handful of items, of which each location will have a limited number of. That means that only the first 30-50 people will be able to purchase what the retail industry refers to as door busters. Everyone else is buying either regularly priced items or something that could be easily purchased for the same price any other weekend of sales. Now lets go back and analyze the “door busters”. Door busters used to be products that hadn’t been sold and were now on the shelf for quite a long time so in order to get rid of stock they would heavily discount these products. Today door busters are specifically made models to be sold solely and exclusively on Black Friday. Understand that these are normally low quality products made for this day and this day only and you will never see these again. They are typically made with lower quality standards and if you come back into the store for an exchange, you will not be able to get one because that model is no longer carried.
I’ve been there, I’ve worked a Black Friday and don’t get me wrong, it’s one of those things you just have to experience for yourself, but after the first time it’s just not worth it anymore. So lets be courteous to the retail workers who have to miss dinner with their families and lets stop buying in to this fad. Lets do our shopping during regular business hours.
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