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I always hated how Black Friday is literally the morning after thanksgiving. Thanksgiving night should be a night where you eat dinner and have fun with family with little to no stress involved, it shouldn't be a night where you're stressing because you have to be awake by 5:00 a.m. to be getting the best deals
Whimmery Not only are the sale prices no longer spectacular, if you want something and track the price over a short time like a month before Thanksgiving I have seen the price go UP the week or two before and get put on "sale" for Black Friday to what it was at the end of October. Just a trick to get people to buy. I check Walmart, Target, Dollar Tree and Aldi for a lot of things I buy regularly. Some have one thing cheaper and another higher. I just shop online for the price, make a list and drive a big circle to hit every place that has the best price for each item. I'm on a very limited budget, so EVERY single penny has to count. I am so tired of rice, but that's the cheapest in bulk and makes a good filler to quiet my belly. Anything not necessary has to wait for a great sale or for me to save enough.
I dont shop on black Friday. The deals just aren't as good as they used to be, so it's not worth waiting months to buy something you could pay 5 dollars more for today.
Call me crazy but I enjoy black friday quite a bit even though I don't buy much if anything on it. Me and a friend have kind of made it a tradition to go to the mall on black friday and just see the madness. She usually will actually wait it out in line to buy things but I'll just tag along as a spectator.
That makes sense. I know a lot of people just enjoy that experience. Personally, I've never liked shopping at physical stores and malls, even if it's for me - and especially if there are big crowds of people. I bet the people watching is interesting, though.
I went with my family to the Black Friday rush............. Never. Again. I will not miss it on bit. Besides in my view as most items die out (have you seen the toy section in Target and Wal-mart lately?) and technology not only becomes smaller but more functional or digital (have you seen the size of the electronic section of Target and Wal-mart lately?.....and music and gaming section of Best buy) the term 'less is more' will become more literal. Thus sales will shrink. Why buy a camera, video and audio recorder, television, radio and computer when you could buy a laptop and have them all in one?
Seriously, your first couple videos are a million times better than mine were. Focus on one or two things to really improve on each video and in a short time you'll be getting really good. Hope to see you around :)
It seems that people are now more often giving gifts that involve spending time with one-another (taking loved ones to dinner, spending the money that would have otherwise gone to gifts on plane tickets to be spend holidays together, etc.), rather than giving material items, and that's actually not such a bad thing.
I don't know if I've ever actually shopped on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, but this year my kindle broke in November so I'm purposefully waiting for the sale holiday to replace it.
I think last year was the first time I bought anything on Cyber Monday, and it's a similar reason. I just happened to already need (or want) a TV, because we didn't have one, so I waited until Cyber Monday and actually got a really good deal on one. Kindle is the perfect thing to buy on a sale holiday because Amazon is known to reduce prices on their own tech quite a bit (I bought my sister a Kindle for her birthday on the first Prime Day for a decent discount).
I always found it super harsh to make workers work thanksgiving day because Black Friday sales starting a day early. Some companies don’t even allow you to take time off
Black Friday has never been a part of my holiday experience. Mainly for the reasons you laid out in your video: Sales happen year-round, I can get great deals online through things like the Honey Extension, etc. Additionally, I'm not interested in large consumer electronics (generally speaking). I don't need or want a huge TV for a living room, or the multitude of video game consoles or media watching devices (DVD/Blu-ray players, etc.). I don't know if that puts me outside the norms of American culture or not, certainly it is a shift from my parents generation that saw those items as signals of status among their peer group. All that being said, I will likely check out various websites for big-box stores in my area on Thurs/Fri of Thanksgiving week to see if anything I've been considering as a purchase comes up as a huge sale, much like I would do throughout the year as it is, although I'm not particularly hopeful in that regard.
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Thank you, Harshil. Just as good? That’s high praise! If I were half as good, that would make me a Quarter as Interesting. There is just one plane video on my idea list so we’ll see. People sure do love planes on here.
I mean you are still starting out and your quality is good. Im sure you can become just as good as him if you keep on progressing and can dedicate more time to your vids!
Black Friday has started becoming more and more corporatized as the years have gone by. Back when it was more of a "backwoods" movement, none of the stores were open on thanksgiving day, but instead opened at 5am on Friday morning. Deals were far better and it was overall more exciting. As soon as they started push the open time earlier and earlier, even to thanksgiving day itself, as early as FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON, then more people started to get more upset about the opening times, and stores started to give worse sales by using Black Friday as a crutch to simply get people IN the store, but not offering much. Corporate greed killed Black Friday.
I did not shop black Friday this year. Reason #1: we got broken into our home twice this year... I have no intention to restore what was stolen until we move out... Reason #2: credit card debt, I have no interest in getting deeper in debt this year. Reason #4: I feel that I have all I need, if I shop its going to be for "want". Reason #5: I shop mostly (90% of the time) only clearance items. Best deals ever year round.
Black Friday encourages human-on-human violence. It never should have caught on in the first place and is a gargantuan testament to the slimy aspects of humanity (particularly that of extreme commercialism).
Young people don't care about Christmas is why. They don't care about family, family dinners, traditions or anything that people use to care about. They only care about having another day off.
Kind of ironoc... Thursday I want to thank God for _______ okay time for bed got to wake up at 2 am to go buy shit that'll be thrown away in February 😂😂😂😂.
Do Canadians have less sale holidays? In the U.S. we pretty much have sales for anything, even in appropriate ones like Veterans Day or Memorial Day as mentioned in the video.
It’s honestly more about the sales than the Thanksgiving holiday, I think that’s why it’s gotten popular in other countries. It’s about a month before Christmas so folks start doing their shopping. But yes it’s interesting that UK didn’t just choose another day.
Each month there is a sale for two weeks. So why is it more expensive the rest of the month? And that repeats every month! So is a sale a sale? And why not sell it all year round for the discount price? I know why..... Otherwise it wouldn't be a sale! I'll see price's staying up so they can go down ON a sale. In my childhood i saw price's of products like electronics's go down slowly during the year. That doesn't happen anymore,,,,, unless it's on sale !!!
Oh no... not dying in Australia, they're about to adapt everything American festive have. Recent one was Halloween. We never celebrate Halloween in Oz culture. Ever!. Only lately.
No, I would not miss Black Friday. It can die. I shop year round and not at large corporations. I buy locally and community. Amazon is NOT a place I would shop. Bezos is rich enough. I'm a happy generation X.
Ah I see. I left a comment on one video of someone who I am subscribed to (PolyMatter) and mentioned I made a video on a similar topic and didn’t say “go watch it” or anything of the sort, it really was just interesting that we both found that online shopping isn’t the only root of the decrease of shopping at malls. I’m not a fan of folks who advertise on other videos like you said. Sorry, wasn’t the intention. Glad you enjoyed the video, though.
FutureNow But the fact you knew with vídeo it was, proves it was a one time only, either that ir you ou self advertise one 1 small channel wich wouldnt be worth it
I'm not American so I can't imagine anything worse than going to a black friday sale. If I ever have to fight someone for a TV, I'd rather just stay home haha
Good video dude. Small design tip: when you highlight several words in a sentence, the effect of drawing attention to something is lost. For instance, at 3:09 my eyes want to look at all 5 highlighted phrases simultaneously. It would be better to just highlight "Cyber Monday" and "Online Retailers," then rewrite the end of the sentence so it's shorter. That's not quite perfect because I'm just trying to rework it real fast but I would definitely consider highlighting fewer words. Best of luck!
tbh lve never really been a fan of the way we celebrate christmas and black Friday kind of personifies why. the pressure to spend money you might not even have just to prove you didn't forget about some loved one on Christmas is absolutely ridiculous and I think my generation is coming around to that fact. the gifts exchanged among the millennial members of my family have gotten smaller and simpler every year since I was a kid that includes gifts given to children. I think we're reaching the realization that buying people things they don't need is pointless and doesn't carry with it any sort of emotional weight.
I went shopping on black Friday once, in like 2008 or 2009 at Walmart. I never did it again after that because it was an awful experience. I do most of my shopping online or at second hand stores now. I'm curious what the new statistics are for people planning to shop on black Friday in 2018 and 2019 or how many who actually did.
Honestly I've always wondered why a mass shooter or any number of terrorist groups don't target Black Friday at Walmart. Hundreds of people packed, no place to run. You're asking to get hurt or killed participating in it.
It's been a long standing tradition for our family, we all stay at the parents house for 3-5 days. I hated waking up at 4am and struggling to stay awake until noon, tbh. I'm glad that stores have started opening at 10pm Thanksgiving night. It gives us something to do after we've had our after-dinner naps (turkey coma). lol We get all of our shopping done by 3am and then go to sleep so we can start the day playing games we bought together. It fuels us for the rest of our stay there. Though I do agree that it's not fair to the workers and I do feel bad for them.
I start shopping in January. I know there are times in the year I have more money other times and there are lean times as well, so I do it when I can and pick up things I see when I have money. Also living where I do, there isn't much selection without driving an hour or more, so I do a lot of shopping online.
