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Originally Posted by Catlady
"Ruined"? A sale is a sale is a sale. Retailers have made it less of an event, sure, by extending the sales period, but why is that bad? I'm glad to take advantage of a sale, whenever it comes along.
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It's bad because the discounts aren't as deep, and stretching it out over two months is ridiculous. I prefer the old Black Friday, 3 days of sales and done. It was easy to keep up with. Now it's pretty much two months of multiple sales and a pain in the neck to keep up with.
But hey, that's me.
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Originally Posted by Manabi
You kind of answered yourself there. Before Black Friday was chock full of really special sales you'd never see any other time of the year. It was exciting and even fun looking at the great deals and buying things during it. Now it's "[a] sale is a sale is a sale" and pretty boring.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
It’s only bad, for consumers, if the price reductions are less, or the absolute prices are higher. And I think the reductions this year are less, and the prices, even after inflation, higher.
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Originally Posted by Manabi
Yep, most people don't realize that they're saving less money now and retailers love it. On Black Friday stores used to have really deep discounts on a few items to get people into the stores/onto their websites to buy other stuff that had lesser discounts. Retailers frequently lost money, or at best broke even on those best deals. (Which is why they were quantity limited.) Now they count on people assuming all the deals they call Black Friday deals will be great and it's working. Not all sales are equal.
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