11/29/2009 - Link
Black Friday w10 reblogw10
Black Friday is an annual event. Famous for retailers giving great deals on almost everything in their stores. Electronics seems to be the most popular items every year since stores go as low as $300 for laptops, and $400 for flat 40’ flatscreens. but as yahoo reported stores arent telling the customes about their 5 instock limit per store. I think this is wrong. On the most popular day of the year, when tens or even hundreds of people line up outside of a store, the chances of getting what they want is almost impossible. I think they do this on purpose just to draw in people to their stores. I belive what yahoo is trying to expose is that even large retailers are in such a crisis that this year they cant hold up to the great price slashes. but if they can afoord to give such great deals and make em so that atleast more than 5 can enjoy then they just shouldnt advertise them.
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I agree with you, that seems like such an unfair thing of the retailers to do. I used to work at Abercrombie and Fitch and we put everything on the floor. Yes, its a retail store unlike Best Buy or Curcuit City but I believe it is required to have all the surplus goods in the back to the front during this day. You would think that they would have more than lets say 5 LCD t.v. for sale! The stores have to make a cetain quota everyday and especially that day. Every store should at least want to put everything out on the floor including the huge stores. When I worked in a boutique last year during Black Friday, we were told by superiors of the chain to put everything out on the floor and we advertised this everywhere and we made more than our intended quota. Stores should really rethink that “strategy”.
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I agree that this is kind of unfair of the retailers, however, the customers should have enough sense to read the fine print. That’s something my mom taught me when I was younger. Plus, they’re just trying to run a business. The great deals and advertisements draws customers to their store, so it is all a part of strategy. The part about a stampede at wal-mart killing an employee is just overboard. People will do anything for a good deal. What has this world come to?
this is really interesting to me because up until this year i had worked black friday in retail (once in the mall and once for gamestop.) and none of the stores i worked for did this. i worked the doorbuster each time and we usually had enough supplys to last us until about 9 or 10o’clock. so this makes me wonder, is it because of the hard economoy? because people arent shopping as much anymore so they anticipated not being able to make their numbers for black friday so stores are not lying but not telling the whole truth? it just makes me wonder why they would even do this?
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I agree completely with this article because I also read it from Yahoo. It’s ridiculous to see how many people line up for these sales and as soon as they get into the store, they are already sold out. I know plenty of people who were next in line to get the hottest item on the shelves at a highly dropped price and weren’t able to get it because the store sold out of stock. I don’t think that’s fair and I most definitely think that the store should not advertise the item if they are going to be sold out of it in 5 minutes. I also learned that a lot of people put those items that are on sale, on layaway, that way they are guaranteed to get the item and don’t have to wait in line. That’s not fair, but hey, life isn’t fair. I just agree that some changes need to be made to the Black Friday stocks and sales.
