The New York Post has noticed too:
This year, it’s Broken Friday.After a tough 2014, nervous retailers couldn’t afford to wait for the traditional day after Thanksgiving to pull the trigger on holiday shopping discounts… Retail experts say the hysterical bombardment of deals both online and in stores all November long shows just how ineffective — and dysfunctional — the Black Friday business model has become.
Just 28 percent of shoppers are expected to hit the stores the day after Thanksgiving this year, according to a survey released last week from Bankrate.com. “Retailers know that big pop, the big Black Friday day — it’s not working,” said Bankrate.com analyst Jeanine Skowronski.
Title screen from Universal Pictures 1940 film “Black Friday” used under Creative Commons license. Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, while fine actors, had nothing to do with our Black Friday deals.
dancingwolves says
of late. Since I no longer need to get up at 4:00 and stand in line at Toys R Us with matching ads and don’t need another TV, I have found going out on any December evening I can find some deals.
Retailers need to unload the stuff and I can usually find something for everyone at reasonable price. Not to say that some door busters on a Friday night or Saturday morning don’t help, but with these sales on Thanksgiving day….well my thoughts are “people are more important than things” which goes along with “Jesus is the reason for the season”….can you tell I’m getting older? lol
So I will stay in and enjoy my company instead and try to be forgiving of those who are declining our dinner invitation cause they need to go shopping.