The deals are sparse or nonexistent. Retailers got caught red-labeled last year, lying about all of their in-store and online sale prices. They jacked the prices up leading up to Black Friday, then lowered them down to regular price to give the illusion that the item was on sale. I stayed in bed for an extra hour today instead of being caught up in the yearly sales lie.
I'm just glad essentials went on sale, but yeah these sales sucked for electronics/games. Digital comics do have nice sales too. Christmas in July deals were way better. 1:59 in store exclusive target is bs. They keep getting worse.
Exactly. I checked the price of a 4tb ssd I bought at $300 a few weeks before to see if i could have gotten a deal. Showed "original" price at $450 marked down to $290 'on sale'. Just confirmed its a waste of time to me.
Online luxury retailers that sell at discounted prices have been doing this for years. Some of them claim to have an item on sale that costs more than what the actual retailer is selling it for on their own website. It is important to be savvy in retail shopping and know where to get the best deal.
Yes, the Target, Walmart, and shopping mall parking lots were empty where I live. I saw these videos of how busy it was, but that doesn’t match up at all.
There's not really many deals these days compared to a few years ago. The problem is that targets sells were the same price on friday as well as the week before
NO they have presale BEFORE black Friday and retailers no longer hold out for the deals, because they are trying to beat one another to the sale, so they have sales pre black friday
Black Friday “deals” are the same prices that they regularly sold for years ago. I’m not spending $300 on a vacuum cleaner or $50+ for items of clothing made from polyester and plastic
It’s not a thing cause the deals suck- door busters are over priced t-shirts ticketed at $50 when it is $5 quality then saying the sale is “$15.” I can get that exact quality at Walmart for $5
Bruh i work in retail and the only things on sale were tvs. How often do you really need a new TV? Ive had the same one since 2017. I think my family is all at the point where were all just like yeah were broke dont get me anything
You fool, now you’ve done it. 🙄 tv manufacturers have been wise to this trend of not buying a new tv every few years so now they’re going to engineer them to fail every few years so you’re forced to buy a new one. This happens with some car manufacturers as well and other electronics
@@Max_Power_007 It’s called planned obsolescence. Look it up it’s been happening for decades. We need more “right to repair” legislation to fix that nonsense.
The economy is an ocean, there will always be waves. As long as you have your life jacket on, you’ll be fine. You can also take advantage of the dips, I know I will. Only those who aren’t prepared will sink. Everything in life is cyclical, including the economy. Just embrace it, why fear it.
That and/or no one wants to leave their home when you can shop in your pajamas and get the same item that is being sold at the store. Cyber Monday is more popular for that reason. Some people do have money to spend but don't want to go anywhere
It is believed by many that the term Black Friday derives from the concept that businesses operate at a financial loss, or are “in the red,” until the day after Thanksgiving, when massive sales finally allow them to turn a profit, or put them “in the black.” However, this is untrue. A more accurate explanation of the term dates back to the early 1960s, when police officers in Philadelphia began using the phrase “Black Friday” to describe the chaos that resulted when large numbers of suburban tourists came into the city to begin their holiday shopping and, in some years, attend Saturday’s annual Army-Navy football game. The huge crowds created a headache for the police, who worked longer shifts than usual as they dealt with traffic jams, accidents, shoplifting, and other issues. Origin and history of the Black Friday sale following Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Shopping, consumerism, sales, Christmas, gifts. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Within a few years, the term Black Friday had taken root in Philadelphia. City merchants attempted to put a prettier face on the day by calling it “Big Friday.”
Sad. Still remember in 2007 we went to Newyork day before blackfriday for Macy's parade. Travel back to Massachusetts during the night. Leaving New York, we already saw lines of people in best buy. Rest for a while and travel to New Hampshire to line up at 3am in circuit city nashua!!!! And its packed with people and blankets. It opens at 5am for door buster and there were give aways for people waiting in line. Ill treasure the experience for the rest of my life. BTW was only visiting during that time and we enjoy the festivity.
@canihavethesauce I do my due diligence and comparison-shop when it comes to online purchases. While I pay for a monthly subscription to Amazon prime, I get free shipping on virtually every purchase, and I also check their prices versus Walmart versus target versus any other store that sells the same thing. I see who offers free shipping, the caveat being you may have to purchase $30 or more worth of goods. And since I live in New Jersey, I pay less tax on anything that shipped to me. Unless it’s an overseas purchase, or something like furniture,I rarely ever pay for the price of shipping.
I literally only buy essentials in physical stores. Everything else, clothes, furniture, small appliances, gadgets and doodads are all bought from online retailers
i get wanting to do it from the comfort of your own home but BF shopping is like a tradition for me. it symbolizes ringing in the holidays and it's the day when i get all my gifts for other people
I live in DTLA and the stores are filled with homeless people and little to no inventory. I stayed home and shopped online. It took no more than a few minutes.
Sometimes the sales you see will still be there the day after or weeks. No need to shop in store on Black Friday unless you like that kind of experience.
Black Friday is my Christmas, because Christmas never has sales...at least not for anything i'd want. But i do kind of miss waiting outside, especially in the smartphone age, but online shopping and ample stock seems to have changed that for the better
Actually contrary to popular belief. Most early Christmas deals are often better than Black Friday deals. But nowadays most deals all involve a whole bunch of junk that people often do not want so both are overrated!
We need black friday to go back to the was it used to in the early 2000s. Black Friday needs to go back on Friday after Thanksgiving and have everything on special.
Title: "Is Black Friday still a thing?" Answer: This has been a question since 2010. I'm surprised it's still being asked, at all. It's already a thing of the past. Since when do people still go in person, even for daily grocery shopping? Black Friday is a year round thing.
The deals are sparse or nonexistent. Retailers got caught red-labeled last year, lying about all of their in-store and online sale prices.
They jacked the prices up leading up to Black Friday, then lowered them down to regular price to give the illusion that the item was on sale.
I stayed in bed for an extra hour today instead of being caught up in the yearly sales lie.
I'm just glad essentials went on sale, but yeah these sales sucked for electronics/games. Digital comics do have nice sales too. Christmas in July deals were way better.
1:59 in store exclusive target is bs. They keep getting worse.
Exactly. I checked the price of a 4tb ssd I bought at $300 a few weeks before to see if i could have gotten a deal. Showed "original" price at $450 marked down to $290 'on sale'. Just confirmed its a waste of time to me.
Online luxury retailers that sell at discounted prices have been doing this for years. Some of them claim to have an item on sale that costs more than what the actual retailer is selling it for on their own website. It is important to be savvy in retail shopping and know where to get the best deal.
BROKE FRIDAY
Exactly
Lol
Your reporting is flat out wrong. There were hardly any shoppers out because the sales flat out sucked.
The few sales you can get online delivered to you with Ning a few days to a week at most. No need to go to the stores.
THAT PART BUT THEY ALWAEZ TRYNA PUSH THEIR AGENDAS LOL
True for the Walmart out in Minnesota
Yes, the Target, Walmart, and shopping mall parking lots were empty where I live. I saw these videos of how busy it was, but that doesn’t match up at all.
My wife and I didn’t buy anything 😂 we stayed home
Sameeeeeee
No deals + no money = no Black Friday
Your choices were responsible, stop blaming others
There's not really many deals these days compared to a few years ago. The problem is that targets sells were the same price on friday as well as the week before
If traffic was a sign today, no one went any where. Roads were almost bare.
We all have price tracker apps now. There were no sales on Black Friday
Tis the season for more consumer debt.
Right!!! Lol. I'll die before I can pay my credit cards off. Might as well live it up and have some kind of fun while we're here.
Living as a victim is as lame as it gets
NO they have presale BEFORE black Friday and retailers no longer hold out for the deals, because they are trying to beat one another to the sale, so they have sales pre black friday
Black Friday “deals” are the same prices that they regularly sold for years ago. I’m not spending $300 on a vacuum cleaner or $50+ for items of clothing made from polyester and plastic
Right? I remember getting a dyson for $150 (doorbuster deal) yearssss ago.
I thought people were hurting i thought they didn’t have money
They have ✨️credit cards✨️
Just watch for all the people complaining about their credit card debt come January.
Part of the hurt is people can’t stop buying junk they don’t need with money they don’t have.
Well, not everyone is hurting
Nobody ever said the whole country is broke are you stupid
You're easily conditioned
"Deals" aren't deals if I can buy it for that "deal" price any other time of the year.
It’s not a thing cause the deals suck- door busters are over priced t-shirts ticketed at $50 when it is $5 quality then saying the sale is “$15.” I can get that exact quality at Walmart for $5
Bruh i work in retail and the only things on sale were tvs. How often do you really need a new TV? Ive had the same one since 2017. I think my family is all at the point where were all just like yeah were broke dont get me anything
You fool, now you’ve done it. 🙄 tv manufacturers have been wise to this trend of not buying a new tv every few years so now they’re going to engineer them to fail every few years so you’re forced to buy a new one. This happens with some car manufacturers as well and other electronics
@@Max_Power_007 It’s called planned obsolescence. Look it up it’s been happening for decades. We need more “right to repair” legislation to fix that nonsense.
@@Max_Power_007 bingo its planned obsolescence probably in everything at this point. 😢
2007 for me. It one of the first sets to be in HD. If you want to include the tube TVs, 2000, 1999, and 1976🤪
Babylon has fallen
I haven't left my home on black Friday for the last few years. I sit at my PC and do all my shopping that way.
Black Fridays are dead, hyperinflation is on a he way, next year people will be struggling, tough time because of tariffs
Don’t be scared you’ll be fine.
lol.
eBay power to the people
The economy is an ocean, there will always be waves. As long as you have your life jacket on, you’ll be fine. You can also take advantage of the dips, I know I will. Only those who aren’t prepared will sink. Everything in life is cyclical, including the economy. Just embrace it, why fear it.
Perfectly stated.@@Netizen_101
The better question, is television news still a thing?
Always one in the crowd.
I work at Walmart and Black Friday was dead this week 😢 Everybody is broke thats why
That and/or no one wants to leave their home when you can shop in your pajamas and get the same item that is being sold at the store. Cyber Monday is more popular for that reason. Some people do have money to spend but don't want to go anywhere
Black Friday is dead.💀
It is believed by many that the term Black Friday derives from the concept that businesses operate at a financial loss, or are “in the red,” until the day after Thanksgiving, when massive sales finally allow them to turn a profit, or put them “in the black.” However, this is untrue.
A more accurate explanation of the term dates back to the early 1960s, when police officers in Philadelphia began using the phrase “Black Friday” to describe the chaos that resulted when large numbers of suburban tourists came into the city to begin their holiday shopping and, in some years, attend Saturday’s annual Army-Navy football game. The huge crowds created a headache for the police, who worked longer shifts than usual as they dealt with traffic jams, accidents, shoplifting, and other issues.
Origin and history of the Black Friday sale following Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Shopping, consumerism, sales, Christmas, gifts.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Within a few years, the term Black Friday had taken root in Philadelphia. City merchants attempted to put a prettier face on the day by calling it “Big Friday.”
Too cold in my state. 14 degrees outside.
From the bottom of my heart i could not think of anything i wanted to buy or couldnt just buy at marshalls or tjmaxx
I miss watching the black Friday madness videos.
Those days are over
yep the Golden age was from 07-12
Sad. Still remember in 2007 we went to Newyork day before blackfriday for Macy's parade. Travel back to Massachusetts during the night. Leaving New York, we already saw lines of people in best buy. Rest for a while and travel to New Hampshire to line up at 3am in circuit city nashua!!!! And its packed with people and blankets. It opens at 5am for door buster and there were give aways for people waiting in line. Ill treasure the experience for the rest of my life. BTW was only visiting during that time and we enjoy the festivity.
I love being in debt buying things I don't need with money I don't have. It's The American Dream! 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
Blah blah blah, go back to watching your sportsball 🙄 go team!!! Priorities!!!
Walmart today barely had any deals but online i found more deals.
That will always puzzle me, how online prices are better than in-store prices.
@canihavethesauce I do my due diligence and comparison-shop when it comes to online purchases. While I pay for a monthly subscription to Amazon prime, I get free shipping on virtually every purchase, and I also check their prices versus Walmart versus target versus any other store that sells the same thing. I see who offers free shipping, the caveat being you may have to purchase $30 or more worth of goods. And since I live in New Jersey, I pay less tax on anything that shipped to me. Unless it’s an overseas purchase, or something like furniture,I rarely ever pay for the price of shipping.
I literally only buy essentials in physical stores. Everything else, clothes, furniture, small appliances, gadgets and doodads are all bought from online retailers
i get wanting to do it from the comfort of your own home but BF shopping is like a tradition for me. it symbolizes ringing in the holidays and it's the day when i get all my gifts for other people
Black Friday was a bust here in Bloomington indiana it was a ghost town.
I'd hate to be a relative of the Amazon guy shopper.
Junk
Knockoffs
How many layoffs for automation at Amazon again??
we raised the price to give you a reduced price similar to how it was previously priced and you're not happy?
I live in DTLA and the stores are filled with homeless people and little to no inventory. I stayed home and shopped online. It took no more than a few minutes.
Sometimes the sales you see will still be there the day after or weeks. No need to shop in store on Black Friday unless you like that kind of experience.
My target had regular price's 🤣🤣🤣 waste of time.
😂 Inflation is killing it
The Day after Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve is a giant Bkack Friday anymore 😮 People are shopping more carefully and until the credit cards run out😮
Stop using the credit card and you will win
Miss watching the Crazy fights. The tug of wars, over TVs.
Fffight! Yeah!
:)
Where I worked, there were more employees than shoppers at Dicks Sporting Goods
more importantly... who cares?
Mr Bezos must be laughing all the way to the bank
Black Friday is my Christmas, because Christmas never has sales...at least not for anything i'd want. But i do kind of miss waiting outside, especially in the smartphone age, but online shopping and ample stock seems to have changed that for the better
Actually contrary to popular belief. Most early Christmas deals are often better than Black Friday deals. But nowadays most deals all involve a whole bunch of junk that people often do not want so both are overrated!
Retailers made the sale all week because they didn't want to get sued for letting customers fight over a TV on black Friday.
Item Priced Before Black Friday: $99
Same Item Priced on Black Friday: $199 marked as 50% off and it’s $99
January same Item: $79
😂😂🤡🤡
We didnt buy much of anything yesterday. Easier to throw 20 bux in a card. Way too $$$.
Black Friday went out the door since 2020. No more black Fridays😮😮😮😮😮😂😂😂
Nowhere as fun as it used to be.
Black fridays are for not very smart people that like to get in debts 😅😅😅 so sad
Going into debt for gifts leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
We need black friday to go back to the was it used to in the early 2000s. Black Friday needs to go back on Friday after Thanksgiving and have everything on special.
Buying stocks in companies is the new Black Friday deals lol
It is when there is money to spend.
Black Friday effectively ended Jan 20, 2021 ( or at least put on hiatus)
I ❤ Tampa I wonder whete in Tampa this was filmed. Idc for black Friday anymore i prefer online shopping. I mids Tampa, i can't to go back
There’s no deals anymore
Title: "Is Black Friday still a thing?"
Answer: This has been a question since 2010. I'm surprised it's still being asked, at all. It's already a thing of the past. Since when do people still go in person, even for daily grocery shopping? Black Friday is a year round thing.
Wait till they see next year’s price 😮
Oh shut up
WOW..... and just like that people no longer have debt and inflation disappeared 😮😮😮
Ok I went shopping
Online Shopping Friday.
Can I win a free kindle if I find Kurt Douglas at the store?
Christmas isn't even celebrated anymore. Friends and family all agree it's a holiday for the rich.
spoiler alert ... it did not happen . most of their stores barely had people. lol
Lol no body cares about Black Friday anymore. No body wants to be broke forever.
Geloof er geen reed van alles is marketing.
Ik zou hier nog meer zeggen maar ik wil niet bestraft worden 🤐😜🫣
Black Friday is Dead.
We stayed home, dinner and each others company is all that matters.
No one cares we are broke🥱🥱🚩🚩🚩
Its because of the aftermath of the pandemic.
N0 it’s because they have Black Friday all November, its stupid now