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Across the Fence:  The demise of Black Friday ....?  |
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rough start farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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marianne
The Beautiful Pacific NW
Washington State
USA
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 Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 03:41:41 AM
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I know I am not the only one who has noticed that retailers are trying to get the jump on one another by opening up earlier and earlier for Black Friday. And online retailers are promoting Black Friday warm up deals. Some stores have started early bird deals on Wednesday.
So my question is, Do you think we are seeing the demise of Black Friday? Are we moving towards a Dim Week Before Thanksgiving instead?
Marianne |
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SandraM
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sandra
Coldwater
Michigan
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 05:08:50 AM
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I know my daughters work retail. They are starting sales at midnight now. They did this last year. It keeps them from enjoying Thanksgiving as much because they have to be at work at 11 Thanksgiving night. The only way it will end is if they stop making the money to justify it so I think it will be around for a while.
Sandra
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melody
True Blue Farmgirl
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Melody
The Great North Woods in the Land of Hiawatha
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 08:31:07 AM
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I just heard Wal-Mart is planning a HUGE nation-wide strike on Black Friday...
I never hit the stores the day after Thanksgiving-It's just nuts out there. I mean it's ridiculous how commercialized and money grubbing the holidays have become-Very sad...
Melody
Farmgirl #525 |
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Woodswoman
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jennifer
Altamont
NY
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 09:34:12 AM
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Yep, for me Black Friday is "Buy Nothing Day". Our tradition is to stay home and put up the lights and decorate the house.
Jennifer
Farmgirl Sister #104
"Nature brings to every time and season some beauties of its own".
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Ninibini
True Blue Farmgirl
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Nini
Pennsylvania
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 09:41:53 AM
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Good, Melody! I'm glad to hear that! Sam Walton used to say that the stores would never be opened on Christmas OR Thanksgiving!!! Stores here - Wal-Mart and many others - are opening up on Thanksgiving night (many have been doing so for a couple of years now!)! What the hey-dee-oh-hey?!
Marianne, When I read the title of this post, my first thought was, "No... The demise of THANKSGIVING!" Are we more grateful for the sales or the blessings we have already received? Has it become all about greedily getting all we can get vs. the celebration of the blessings we have now? I don't mind the sale thing, and I do appreciate that we all need a really good deal now more than ever... But the term "holiday" used to mean "Holy Day," a day of reverence and awe and celebration... and, in my book, the Thanksgiving holiday should never be turned into a "grab-what-you-can-get Sale Day." When they turn even Thanksgiving itself into a day of buying and selling, then we've missed the whole point of the holiday - gratitude, reverence and reflection for the gifts and blessing we have. It's supposed to be a day of thankful-ness and a day of giving thanks, not a day of greed and "get me."
Life is about people... not about things. Things make life easier and even pleasant in some ways, but PEOPLE make life complete and worth living. I'm sorry, but I think what they are doing is disgusting, and my family will not be lured into it. Period.
Nini
Farmgirl Sister #1974
God gave us two hands... one to help ourselves, and one to help others!
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farmmilkmama
True Blue Farmgirl
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Amy
Central MN
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 12:58:04 PM
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It is sad to see how things get earlier and earlier. I told the boys we won't be going ANYWHERE on Black Friday because people are so nuts! I think it's a great tradition to start that as the day to decorate and just be at home together. Drives me nuts that we spend Thanksgiving being "thankful for our blessings" and then spend the day after rushing around to grab every little thing...and do we need any of it? GRRRR.
--* FarmMilkMama *--
Farmgirl Sister #1086
Be yourself.
Everyone else is already taken.
-Oscar Wilde
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goneriding
True Blue Farmgirl
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Winona
Central Oregon
USA
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 2:17:53 PM
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I hide at home during the dreaded Black Friday crush  I like a much less frantic and angry crowd to do what bit of holiday shopping I do. The spirit of the holidays is so much more important to me than a fabulous deal on something that I could likely do with out anyway.
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cindy
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Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 2:55:38 PM
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I've been thinking a lot about this whole consumerist economy we have and I recently came to the conclusion that if I take more than i need, someone, somewhere, is going to suffer because of it. It may be the "great buy" sweater that i didn't need that was made in some sweat shop in some third world country, where twelve year old girls are forced to work long hours with little pay. Believe me, when an American gets a good "deal" on something that was foreign made, an impoverished person didn't get what they deserved for making it. I agree with Nini, we should be grateful for what we have and not obsessed with getting more. As long as we have our loved ones and our health, we should all be grateful.
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
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Emily Anna
True Blue Farmgirl
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Emily
Fort Atkinson
WI
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 3:12:02 PM
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I've only done Black Friday once. I only went to one store and it wasn't that crowded. I get that people want deals, but to me, the whole thing is completely out of hand. I could go on and on about how disgustingly materialistic society has become but I will post something my father posted on facebook and end with that.......
Black Friday: because only in America people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what we already have. |
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rough start farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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marianne
The Beautiful Pacific NW
Washington State
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 3:28:41 PM
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Do you remember how you never used to know what would be on sale on Black Friday...it was a treasure hunt and luck played into everything. No one had cell phones so you couldn't call and tell everyone where the deals were until you got home ... And how about the early '90s when to be sold in WalMart, the item had to be made in the USA! And WalMart never advertised because it would increase the cost of their goods ... How times change!
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
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Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 4:43:27 PM
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I saw on the news this morning where there was a lady and her daughter out in California already camped out in front of Best Buy!!
Say what!?
Uh, no thanks.
I risked to venture out for the first time year before last just to see what it was like. I went to a mall and had a great time. Wasn't after anything in particular. Had a small list of my own and that was about it. Got there around 6 a.m. no problems parking, no crowded masses, no terrible lines, and I was home a little after 11:00. And yes, found some good deals...but I treasure spending time with family and my warm bed too much to be standing in lines at midnight or before.
It is sad....unless I can do it just for fun WITH a family member in a location where it's going to be MUCH warmer. Truly though, there's nothing on this earth I need that badly |
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katmom
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Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Nov 16 2012 : 11:04:32 PM
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I just saw the WallyWorld ad that said the 'sales' will start at 10pm on Thanksgiving night.... good grief, we can't even digest our dinner....
I plan to hunker down, sew and eat left overs!
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom and Glamping Diva!
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sjmjgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Stephanie
Mt. Vernon
Iowa
USA
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Posted - Nov 17 2012 : 09:20:55 AM
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I guess you could say we do the exact opposite of Black Friday in that we go to Amish country every year. We have a great time, get started on Christmas gifts and are FAR away from the crowds!
Farmgirl Sister # 3810
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
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Virginia
USA
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Posted - Nov 17 2012 : 09:43:35 AM
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| My husband and I spend Black Friday eating leftovers and catching up on our reading. |
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queenmushroom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lorena
Centerville
Me
USA
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Posted - Nov 17 2012 : 2:07:22 PM
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Here in Maine we still have blue laws that prevent stores over a certain sq ft from being open on Thanksgiving and Christmas. So if black Friday is what the stores want then they can't be open until midnight. I don't Christmas shop until after Thanksgiving myself and won't on black Friday. Christmas is too commercialized.
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
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Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - Nov 17 2012 : 4:10:09 PM
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If anyone has time to vacation to NC I'd humbly suggest Old Salem or of course The Biltmore- especially the candlelight tour in the evenings. Very fun and super family/holiday oriented. Both are super organized so there's no bad hustle right now either.
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