Although this year's Black Friday was hard to attend by people living in Iowa and Nebraska, shoppers spent about 25% more this year than last year. There's not a very clear report as to what items were bought more this year compared to last year, yet. This year's most popular items bought were 32 inch flat screen TVs for $125, RCA Tablets for $30, and Nintendo Wii bundle U for $250. The average Black Friday shopper spent around $370 this year which was slightly lower than anticipated, but again greater than last year.
Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Toys 'R' Us, Macy's, and Kohl's were just some of the stores that opened early Thursday night instead of Friday to get ahead of sales. Some Black Friday shoppers said that they skipped meals with their family to try and get a better spot in line for those hard to beat deals.
Questions:
Do you think there should be a rule that stores cannot open until Friday?
Are you surprised that sales went up from last year's Black Friday?
My Thoughts:
I think that there should be a rule that stores can only open on Friday because people are forgetting the true meaning of Thanksgiving. I am also surprised that the sales went up from last year's Black Friday but that's probably because not very many people around here could go because of the weather.
Replies
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I feel like they should open at night because you get the crazy people that you can fight at night and win better stuff then going in the morning when alot of the old people are out and try and hurt you just because they have a walker and cant move fast
I like that stores open early, because when you go later on Friday it isn't busy at all.
no the store are just trying to make some more money and by opening before Friday just helps them out. i'm not surprised at all that it went up.
I don't think there should be, it makes the stores less crowded. I'm not surprised, because I'm sure the price of stuff has also went up.
That's true, Emma. We need to take in account how much prices have gone up from last year to this year to find out if we really did spend a greater percentage of money.
I think it was smart to open earlier because the people that don't really want to die Friday, will go Thursday night. I'm not surprised at all because there were more sales and more stuff. More sales + more stuff = more people.
I understand that people want to get ahead of the game and not have to deal with the crowds, but I think that it's wrong to start sales the day of Thanksgiving because I feel like they're taking away the meaning of the holiday.