Black Friday ( to when ever )

[bernardgreen]

Can we please get a BLACK OUT of adverts and news about Black Friday

And remind stores and advertisers that Friday is 24 hours long and not 24 days long

 

[JBR]

I don't see them. Try AdBlock.

Incidentally, having seen the yobs literally fighting each other last year (in this country, not America), I'm pleased that there was apparently very little interest this year. I wouldn't dream of joining in the melee, anyway.

 

[noseall]

We have been flat out at work getting an extension ready for first fix plumb and leccy. We were finally able to take our foot of the gas on Thursday and suggested we (me and the labourer) go to Brum shopping.
My heart sank when he reminded me it was *****-Chav Friday!
We hit Selfridges at 8:00 a.m. and had an absolute boon. 70mins later on a way home with a MacBook Air and a few bags of shopping at a nice discount.

However, it was looking ominous by the time we left.

 

[Brigadier]

People waiting for humanitarian food parcels behaved better, iirc.

Skanks, scrapping over stuff they don't even want, let alone need. Most don't have the brain to actually realise it though.

"Shopping" - Religion / Opiate for the mouth-breathers

 

[Brigadier]

 

[Brigadier]

 

[joe-90]

I wonder why they call it Black Friday?

 

[bernardgreen]

I don't see them. Try AdBlock.

Is there a version that works on Freeview TV ?

 

[JBR]

I don't see them. Try AdBlock.

Is there a version that works on Freeview TV ?

No, but there's a simple solution that I and many others adopt.
Record - watch later - skip through the ads. I don't know why everybody doesn't do it.

 

[tony1851]

A stupid import from the US, which has no relevance here. Black Friday follows Thanksgiving, when all shops are shut, so perhaps our nearest equivalent is Boxing Day.

 

[securespark]

There is an easy solution.

Each store knows how many of each specially discounted item they have on sale.

Queues form early. As people arrive, they are given a numbered ticket for the item that is top of their shopping list. They only get one ticket, so have to decide what item they want.

The items for sale are kept behind closed doors and ticketholders collect them once paid for, from the loading bay where they can load the items straight into their cars and drive home.

This is how our local B&Q operated a cut-price opening sale I went to in the early eighties.


But of course, greedy retailers don't want to do it this way because they may lose sales.

 

[noseall]

I have to say that it was very civilised at 8:00am. It was no different to any other shopping day. I found it easy to park, no queues, got exactly what I wanted too.

 

[ladylola]

Skanks, scrapping over stuff they don't even want, let alone need. Most don't have the brain to actually realise it though.

What you mean people actually don't need stuff like this ? http://myfrebble.com
Think of a sentence with the words crap , pointless and most.

 

[conny]

Skanks, scrapping over stuff they don't even want, let alone need. Most don't have the brain to actually realise it though.

What you mean people actually don't need stuff like this ? http://myfrebble.com
Think of a sentence with the words crap , pointless and most.

I don't know anyone on their list of people who like/use this.

 

[terrypin]

We have been flat out at work getting an extension ready for first fix plumb and leccy. We were finally able to take our foot of the gas on Thursday and suggested we (me and the labourer) go to Brum shopping.
My heart sank when he reminded me it was *****-Chav Friday!
We hit Selfridges at 8:00 a.m. and had an absolute boon. 70mins later on a way home with a MacBook Air and a few bags of shopping at a nice discount.

However, it was looking ominous by the time we left.

Totally agree, I much prefer Selfridges, a much better class of snob.