It's Black Friday again this Friday.

Black Friday. A notion that is literally putting businesses across the UK and Ireland out of business.

Slash your prices and get greedy in November, then wonder why your December profits are down the toilet and blame the internet.

It's madness. Most folk I know will have all their shopping done next week and then wont go near a shopping centre for the traditional Christmas rush.
 
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Zombie Apocalypse without the laughs. Although smashing cunts on the head with baseball bats who are fighting over a 300” flatscreen for their tiny living room should be legal.
 
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Thaksinssoldier said:
Black Friday. A notion that is literally putting businesses across the UK and Ireland out of business.

Slash your prices and get greedy in November, then wonder why your December profits are down the toilet and blame the internet.

It's madness. Most folk I know will have all their shopping done next week and then wont go near a shopping centre for the traditional Christmas rush.
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Remember when shops started their sales boxing day. It seemed to change in the last recession Christmas sales were slow and a lot of shops started their sales before Christmas. The few years following it became a game of chicken between the retailers and shoppers with the shops cracking and cutting prices before Christmas. Now shoppers hold off knowing the shops will start sales early Black Friday is just another tool for retailers to beat their competitors to it.
I know cartel are illegal and all that but if they all decided not to cut before Christmas they may have a few less sales but at higher profit margins, that's my theory anyway.
 
dronefromsector7G said:
Is this where prices back to to the level they were at a few months ago before a temporary increase?
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There is SOME truth in this.

Thaksinssoldier said:
Black Friday. A notion that is literally putting businesses across the UK and Ireland out of business.

Slash your prices and get greedy in November, then wonder why your December profits are down the toilet and blame the internet.

It's madness. Most folk I know will have all their shopping done next week and then wont go near a shopping centre for the traditional Christmas rush.
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Again, along the same lines as drone, but most savvy shops in retail tend to put their old stock out to sell off on 'Black Friday', i.e., things that couldn't be sold during the normal sales window.

This is especially true of shops dealing with technology as people don't really check for latest models if the price 'right enough' for them.

Everybody seems happy at the 'winning' deals all round!!
 
Bigga said:
There is SOME truth in this.



Again, along the same lines as drone, but most savvy shops in retail tend to put their old stock out to sell off on 'Black Friday', i.e., things that couldn't be sold during the normal sales window.

This is especially true of shops dealing with technology as people don't really check for latest models if the price 'right enough' for them.

Everybody seems happy at the 'winning' deals all round!!
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Originally, but now the stores are chucking their new products in as they need to hit targets set from previous years. We just bought a brand new nespresso machine and 130 coffee pods for 59 quid this evening. They are literally cannibalising themselves because of jumping on to this. They’ve also gotten greedy and ruined it for themselves.

It was Black Friday.

A year later it was black week.

Now, black month in some fecking stores.

Next month they’ll wonder where the Christmas trade is.
 
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