Friday Free-For-All: Black Friday Edition
by PubliusToday is the first official day of what will likely be a disappointing (in terms of retail sales) holiday season:
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It's not gone a be "Black Friday" it's gonna be "Red Friday" on wall street.
Buy long-term items now, while your money is still worth something!
I lived through a devaluation of the Peso while in Mexico. Ain't fun at all to have everything cost double.
Just sayin'. . .
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I wonder if these are the same people who are always late for work?
It’s a good thing these things (shopping) are not up to me, many a store would be closing down.
Disappointing holiday season? For some.
As long as Breitbart keeps rolling out the hits, it will be a very Merry Christmas for the rest of US!
No thanks.
LOL
Hurry, buy more stuff. You can never have enough stuff.
Enjoy it now, this may be the last Christmas you can afford.
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PHEWY! BLACK FRIDAY is for those who over spend on the holidays by maxing out their credit cards! Then crying fowl when people pick on them when they have to file bankruptcy! AND SINCE ALL AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN-really don't give damn what HOLIDAY you're celebrating as long it helps their PROFIT MARGINS-CHRISTMAS IS NOT CHRISTMAS! TODAY IS GREED FRIDAY-and it should be known as such.
The media has been pushing Black Friday for a month. Overheard a store manager couple of weeks ago telling staff that their corporate HQ was expecting a HUGE holiday sales. Not a soul in the store, five staff, streets deserted and unemployment and mortgage forclosures still rising.
Unbelieveable the delusion, “HUGE sales ahead.” la-la land.
Prediction: any permuation of this theme: Media will report breathlessly, "Analysts spot economy rebound as Black Friday sales higher than projected!"
(projected -70% actual -67%)
Aren't Americans' a happy bunch? Look at all the smiles! At least it doesn't appear to be a Best Buy store.
I had the greatest thing told to me yesterday by my 8yr old son. His mother & I are divorced, have been for almost 3yrs & this was my Holiday with him so we went to my cousins house for dinner. While there, my cousin was showing off an antique desk that I had finished restoring for her & some book shelves I had made. My son was getting bored so to distract him, my aunt asked him what he wanted for Christmas. To everyone's surprise, my son said, very seriously, all he wanted was for me to teach him how to make things & that he wanted him & me to build him a desk, together, because "that was how daddy was taught, by his grandfather, who was taught his father". So this morning we decided on the design & got the materials needed. We will start on it tomorrow morning.
That is a great story!
No shopping today. I know that isn't going to stimulate the economy, but think there are more important things to do than run around trying to get bargains on stuff we do not really need. Planning a Christmas season with meaning, not "stuff." Watching "Band of Brothers" marathon on Spike. God Bless America and our troops today and every day.
I went out for Black Friday for the first time in a couple decades. I was expecting crowds based on the media babbling I was hearing. The stores literally had more employees milling around than customers. I got through the stores faster today than I would at any other time of the year. To protect the almighty O, they'll be reporting huge sales even though the stores probably lost more money today than they do on a normal day.
Black Friday won't help the economy.
But, are we:
WAITING ON PINOCHET
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Some people just love the lines. Imagine if this were Moscow in 1979. Instead of thousands of flatscreens, we would be waiting in line for five or six cans of coffee and forty thousand editions of the one, state run, newspaper.
Might be worth a feeling of thanks.
Lazy Jack
There IS another contender for possible media Black Friday round-up coverage on Monday:
“Black Friday? What’s that?”
Can I take it from your post that you are not a fan of the capitalist system?
I hope that anyone wishing to buy anything with their own money got everything they sought out today…
Every once and awhile, a kid steps up and makes you glad…Congratulations…!
You've done a fine job with that one…Dad…
I hope everyone was able to purchase everything they wanted with their own money today…
For that is capitalism…the freedom to choose…to improve your life and the lives of others the way you wish…
Stick it in the statist libs eye! Live the way YOU decide…not the way the Unholy Trinity of Obama, Reid, and Pelosi want it…
Nancy B: there is a simple answer if you do not like it. Don't go shopping. I didn't. I have no one to shop for except my mother, and for her it will be a gift card so she can get what she wants.
I am about the most bah-humbug about the holidays as anyone you will find. But I will not try to throttle the joy out of the joy others take from the holiday season. As for the retailers being the big bad evil greed-mongers: they are in business to make a buck. No one is going into the homes of this nation and dragging people out at gunpoint and told to go shop.
As for those who choose to live beyond their means by maxing out their credit cards, they get no sympathy from me. It's their choice to do this.
You are the luckiest father in the world, and I envy your son greatly for having a father like yours. I had to deal with a father for whom nothing was ever good enough, and who would be about as likely to spend "close time" with his sons as he would be to set fire to himself.
Message to your son: honor your father, my young friend. Your father is a gem.
FREINDLYGRIZZLY-I’m sorry if you think I was trying to take the holiday’s and spoil them for others-it’s just that people need to realize this holiday has more meaning then just Santa and a “boatload of presents.” I think if people were more thankful for what they do receive and take the “greed” equation out of this they would SEE the real reason for this Christmas Holiday and that Jesus was born. And, I am sorry that your father was NOT there for you. My daughters father is much the same and I see the “hurt” in her eyes! I have tried desperately to get him to change-but selfish self-centered people never do. Oh, but of course if there was somthing in it that would BENEFIT him it would be different. Merry Christmas&Happy New Years!
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