They imported this ridiculous bullshit to Europe too, because I'm seeing it here. Sans the accompanying cattle stampede/brawl, apparently, but they still want to make money from it.
Black Friday is a massive bait-and-switch. You queue up in the cold and dark waiting for a chance to grab a item which is 'on sale' (it's not, really) and in 'limited supply' (also not real).
If a big-screen TV normally costs $1200, but Ugly Box Store is selling it for $600, the manufacturer is still making a profit, only now has the added entertainment of watching people gouge each other's eyes out trying to score 'big savings.'
I've often speculated that the ruling class/moneyed interests amused themselves by getting us to fight with each other. You can't get much more disgusting than fighting over consumer goods when you could buy them any other day and save yourself the bruises, even if it means paying full price. I just really don't get materialism. It's like the energy drink paradox in which the more you drink the more exhausted you get. It's a psychological negative feedback loop. It brings out the worst in us too.
John Hummel
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in reply to Muse • • •Black Friday is a massive bait-and-switch. You queue up in the cold and dark waiting for a chance to grab a item which is 'on sale' (it's not, really) and in 'limited supply' (also not real).
If a big-screen TV normally costs $1200, but Ugly Box Store is selling it for $600, the manufacturer is still making a profit, only now has the added entertainment of watching people gouge each other's eyes out trying to score 'big savings.'
Sheila Nagig
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