Today is black friday (the friday just following Thanksgiving day) and almost of retail stores offer big sales for today. The United States is the heaven of shopping and sale, especially for black friday & Christmas. Anyone who have plan to buy LCD TV, GPS,....would go to bestbuy or target, etc. around 5A.M (5A.M? .....it sounds crazy but really really lots of people do it.) to buy whatever they want. And on black friday in the last year, I went to Woodbury Common Outlet with my friends for shopping. We didn't intend to shop a lot but just wanted to enjoy the American culture. But it's so tired work, too much traffic on road and even did not experienced not that much benefits from shopping. And I disappointed with black friday shopping at that time and decided not to do this anymore.
However, I went to a NJ mall with my aunt today AGAIN as soon as she suggested me to go to the mall. I couldn't reject her suggestion, and I don't know whether it was just group mind or my greed. We went to the mall around 2pm. There still be lots of shopping people. Black friday...whether it is mass psychology or American's shopping culture... it's definitely great sales strategy for retailers.
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5am for a flat screen doesn't sound so bad but arriving to the store to find yourself competing with a bunch of other crazy’s and walking out with a bigger purchase then intended ends up kind of bad. I feel like black Friday is overrated and over crowded.
ReplyDeleteI would never want to go to best buy or places like it on black friday. its way too overcrowded and the lines are ridiculous. I saw some of the lines on the news this morning and they wrapped around the parking lots and not everyone got what they wanted. I went to soho and did some shopping there. it was pretty relaxed and not too many people. i also went to 34th street and there were a ton of people there. macys was over crowded. i left as soon as possible.
ReplyDeleteIf anything I honestly suggest online shopping. Because while they do offer deals they have a very limited quantity. Anyways most stores offer online deals on thursday and fridays plus you can't forget cyber mondays ;-)
ReplyDeleteI actually went to Old Navy on Thursday (and felt bad for the people working) since I had to work on Friday and it was not too bad. I agree with Mily though, whatever I could get online I did.
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