now that the whole thanksgiving/advertiser's weekend is over, I still have it cemented that the whole advertising spectacle of black friday and cyber monday is overrated as fuck. Thanksgiving isn't given credit when credit is due when It's the actual, real holiday among these overmarketed "holidays" that technically not even holidays.
On amazon, actual discounts are relative, because amazon is terribly inconsistent with prices, so why does it matter? Stores aren't any better, last year in best buy, I heard stories about how the only major-ticket items that had black-friday-worthy markdowns were in atrociously low quantities, how would this year be any different? I bought one thing this black friday weekend, because it was the only thing of its kind there, and was actually made of a material that justified its price. Everything else in the price range? Those were made of the same materials that less-expensive garbage was made out of, I had no reason to buy anything else.
I've personally seen three fucking store franchises in the past two years, go through the following cycle:
>hear from store workers how they're eventually gonna close shop soon.
>decide to check out the clearance sections of each.
>it's hardly clearance-worthy, 30% off at most, when real clearance is 50%+ at other stores.
>closing sales come, most items are barely around 40% off, forty fucking percent! Anything that's 50% or more is basically worthless in production cost anyway.
>even worse, some stores had the "Yellow tag exclusions" where if they had the yellow tag, It's full fucking price!
<plz buy our stuf, GIBE MONIES, PLZ. LET ME JEW YOU GODDAMNIT!
This sounds exactly like the scenario sears went through, they wonder what went wrong? Take a look in your clearance aisle, buddy.