No Black Friday for Asda
- Thread starter SwingsitlikeHogan
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C'mon Phil, we all want to pay more money for what we buy.
I paid £17 for a Mars bar yesterday, and I'm sure spuds should be at least £1 each...If the govt are removing tax credits, its only fair we should give retailers more money...
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Stores can sell whatever they sell on Black Friday at the cheaper price any day of the year.
Robster59
Tour Rookie
I'm glad to see it go. The film of the way people behave I found to be really depressing. It's all mob mentality and people just go mad.
I would never go into a store on Black Friday because of this very reason.
Saying that I did buy a 24" TV last year online on Black Friday for £90.
If you look around on sites like HOTUKDEALS you can pick up a good bargain most days of the year.
I would never go into a store on Black Friday because of this very reason.
Saying that I did buy a 24" TV last year online on Black Friday for £90.
If you look around on sites like HOTUKDEALS you can pick up a good bargain most days of the year.
Stegsie
Head Pro
The irony is that Asda (owned by American Giant Walmart) were instrumental in bringing this craze to the UK in the first place!
I do agree though, hats off to them for making a stand. That's to be applauded for sure.
The scenes last year of people fighting over stuff really summed up, to me anyway, just how much of a materialistic society we've become.
I do agree though, hats off to them for making a stand. That's to be applauded for sure.
The scenes last year of people fighting over stuff really summed up, to me anyway, just how much of a materialistic society we've become.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I'm glad to see it go. The film of the way people behave I found to be really depressing. It's all mob mentality and people just go mad.
I would never go into a store on Black Friday because of this very reason.
Saying that I did buy a 24" TV last year online on Black Friday for £90.
If you look around on sites like HOTUKDEALS you can pick up a good bargain most days of the year.
I just found it a very sad indictment of the way our country is going that avaricious greed and total disregard for others seem so easily to supplant the basic values that make us British - decency and restraint.
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Deleted member 15344
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Or they can have sales like they do all through the year.
Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
To quote from the FT web site.
"British retailers are attempting to scale back Black Friday offers after the US import disrupted last year’s Christmas sales and hit profitability."
The only stance they are making is against their reduced profits.
Stegsie
Head Pro
Fair point!
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
That's like thanking the girl at the pharmacy for getting you some cream when it was her that gave you the rash.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
It is - but I don't really care why they are ditching it - it is unseemly and depressing.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
They could - but something that happens every day would not be special so would not result in the chaotic scenes we have been seeing.
ger147
Tour Winner
I hate sales too. I have a perfectly lovely time wandering round Harrods all year round and then they go and waste it every Boxing Day by cutting the prices and inviting the peasants.
Hacker Khan
Yurt Dwelling, Yoghurt Knitter
At the end of the day it's just some people shopping. And the pushing/shoving has always gone on in sales as stock footage of the xxxxxxx (insert any famous shop) boxing day sale when they open the doors will demonstrate.
In a way, in these times you can't fault people for wanting a bargain as we are brought up in a materialistic marketing led consumerist society. The days of the British being known for our 'decency and restraint' have long gone.
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Deleted member 15344
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Then don't go to the shop that day ?
And Boxing Day is a one off special - do you want that gone as well ?
hovis
Tour Winner
Tragic news. Where will i buy a 50 inch blaupunkt tv from now!!!
Halfords, Argos, Co-op, AO, Homebase, Clarks, Superdry & Hobbycraft are just some of the stores already punting for an increase in sales by having bigger discounts under the Black Friday tag, pretty sure it won't stay there, reminds me of the fairground antics of sellers getting people into a frenzy selling a few decent items for a bargain, probably to a stooge and then making a killing on selling crap, those gullible don't realise until they get home they've bought for the sakes of buying, just because it was cheap, numpty's the lot of them!
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I don't recall it ever been necessary to experience something in person to think that it was not a good thing.
I was never wanting Black Friday done away with - I just didn't like the behaviour it was encouraging and so I'm pleased to see at least one store pulling out. I don't recall Boxing Day mayhem being quite what we've seen for Black Friday, but if Boxing Day customer behaviour is as it has been for Black Friday then I don't think that's great either and doesn't need encouraging.
But I am looking at this purely from a non-materialistic perspective where I view spiritual well-being as being more important to me than anything particularly material - and I don't expect everyone (many?) to take such view on things.
So on this we will differ.
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Deleted member 15344
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It's a sale ? That's all - a sale where things are sold at a reduced rate. Have you never gone into a shop or looked online at something because it's in the sale ? Have you never bought something because it's been reduced ?
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Of course I have. Didn't act like some Black Friday customers though.
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