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How were the Black Friday sales in your part of the world?

How were the Black Friday sales in your part of the world?

  • Great! Better then last year

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • About the same as last year

    Votes: 5 83.3%

  • Junk. Worse then last year

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Waste of my time, I really wish I hadn't gotten out of bed

    Votes: 1 16.7%
  • Total voters
    6
Today was Black Friday?!!!

WHY WASN'T I INFORMED?!!!!!!
 
I don't believe I have ever in my life gone shopping on black friday. I try to avoid shopping AT ALL, but to willingly go shopping when I know it's going to be packed? I'd have to be completely out of my mind.

I do most of my shopping online. If I could, I would never go into a store again.
 
We don't have 'Black Friday' sales over here. Our sales begin after Xmas, around New Year, when stores mark down all the extra items they have left over from Xmas. The Myer sales are usually rather busy, and there are many people, but not the kind of stampede we saw in the US. I usually avoid popular stores during the sales, knowing how busy they will be. Wait a couple of days and then go - and you know something? There are still plenty of items on sale. You don't have to go on the first day in order to get a bargain.
 
I ignore this foolishness.
Man, the consumer must control the market; not the other way around...In an effort to save pennies, even dollars, should a man buy what he does not need and be trampled to death at Walmart ???
People need to be less greedy and more thoughtful.
 
As this poll was started before the day had even ended and as the numbers from retailers have not yet been reported, who can say?

Besides that the last place I'd be caught on Black Friday is anywhere near a retail establishment. I spent the day hiking off my Thanksgiving meal and playing Disc Golf. Both beat lining up with hordes of shoppers to fight over a place in line and over merchandise IMO!:shock:
 
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it appears that the more expensive products were moving slowly....WalMart had a gread deal on a 42" plasma TV, and when my wife went around 9AM, there were 7 of them. We went back after lunch and 3 were gone...
 
Sir Loin said:
As this poll was started before the day had even ended and as the numbers from retailers have not yet been reported, who can say?
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Update:

CHICAGO – The holiday shopping season got off to a surprisingly solid start, according to data released Saturday by a research firm. But the sales boost during the post-Thanksgiving shopathon came at the expense of profits as the nation's retailers had to slash prices to attract the crowds in a season that is expected to be the weakest in decades.

Sales during the day after Thanksgiving rose 3 percent to $10.6 billion, according to preliminary figures released Saturday by ShopperTrak RCT Corp., a Chicago-based research firm that tracks sales at more than 50,000 retail outlets.
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Early data shows strong Black Friday - Yahoo! News

Maybe it won't be too bad
 
The tally is in and around here the sales were brisk and about the same as last year. Nobody was killed or injured here either, which is good IMO.;)
 
Wessexman said:
What's black friday?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)

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Not to be confused with Black Sunday.
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