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[reprobayt]

Walmart is moving "Black Friday" to this Friday in a desperate attempt to make some money this holiday season. Never mind that this "holiday season" is weeks away. Black Friday is here, folks.

Comments

[elena23.livejournal.com]

You can lead a consumer to water, but you can't make him shop.

Oh wait, that's wrong, yes you can. You can tempt him with shiny shiny merchandise at prices so good that they will buy $300 worth of not much at all!

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

http://www.dealtaker.com/CompUSAand39s-29999-laptop-THIS-FRIDAY-SAT-t151150.html

Comp USA has it cheaper this friday, it seems.

[reprobayt.livejournal.com]

Less memory on the CompUSA.

[dark-blade.livejournal.com]

Also, it seems they are going to be doing something similar EVERY friday for the next two months?

[ladysilverlark.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up. Moving into the new house this weekend. So they may put some thing on sale we need.

[curvedmetal.livejournal.com]

I hope they go down. In flames. Black death flames.

[kissmythistle.livejournal.com]

I refuse to shop there. :P

[littlesebastien.livejournal.com]

g'damn it

i work this friday AND i'm too broke for it this week

grrr

[ditz-35801.livejournal.com]

*smack forehead* Now that's just messed up!

[mia42.livejournal.com]

Um, sorry - no dear. The retail holiday season starts the last week of August, it's just taht it's usually in the stockroom and not so public. PUBLICLY the retail holiday season starts in October, by the second week most stores have at least STARTED setting up displays. People say X-mas comes ealier every year but I've worked a lot of retail for the last ten years and to ME - it seems to start the same time each year.

But yes - Black Friday is one particualr day and can't simply be 'moved' unless Thanksgiving is ALSO moved. Walmart is just trying a marketting gimmick in an attemtp to up their sales. And it will probably work, too. Money, money, money; it's the American way. :/