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Black Friday - 11/25/2016 7:31:43 PM   
Greta75


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Status: offline 		Man, you know Chinese people are very superstitious about names, and calling something "Black Friday" would be seen as damn bad luck over here.

But it seems like Black Friday became really dark.

Shootings in malls and deaths. Things got violent!

I am curious. How cheap does things get in Black Friday precisely? 70% off shelves price?



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RE: Black Friday - 11/25/2016 7:37:51 PM   
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RE: Black Friday - 11/25/2016 9:51:54 PM   
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Man, you know Chinese people are very superstitious about names, and calling something "Black Friday" would be seen as damn bad luck over here.

But it seems like Black Friday became really dark.

Shootings in malls and deaths. Things got violent!

I am curious. How cheap does things get in Black Friday precisely? 70% off shelves price?






Some retailers get manic for the Black Friday sales. I ignore them other than to stay off the roads that day.
Now, to pull people into the store; a retailer will advertise a $1200 television for $400 but with the caveat there are only two per store. And the lines wrap around the store starting at midnight trying to get those "limited quantity" buys. And some will bite our hand off if you reach for something they want.

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RE: Black Friday - 11/25/2016 9:58:42 PM   
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Now, to pull people into the store; a retailer will advertise a $1200 television for $400 but with the caveat there are only two per store.

In my country, deals like this happens almost every week ha! There is always a big sale somewhere. And yea, they always got these limited quantities of ridiculous cheap items.

I guess we tried to have a "Black Friday" called "The Great Singapore Sale", but usually it's lacklustre. As in, because there are so many good sales all year round, no mad rush for the GSS.


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RE: Black Friday - 11/26/2016 7:59:34 PM   
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Man, you know Chinese people are very superstitious about names, and calling something "Black Friday" would be seen as damn bad luck over here.
But it seems like Black Friday became really dark.
Shootings in malls and deaths. Things got violent!
I am curious. How cheap does things get in Black Friday precisely? 70% off shelves price?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29


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RE: Black Friday - 11/26/2016 9:57:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Wikipedia article didn't have the origin of the name Black Friday that I learned when doing retail management back in the 1970s.
"Black Friday" is the drop dead date for a business. If your balance sheet isn't in the black by then, the whole store will be pulling a loss for the year. One reason, originally, for the big push on the weekend after Thanksgiving. You have to cover the costs for all the extra crap stocked for the Christmas Season. After Black Friday; everything sold should be pure profit.

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RE: Black Friday - 11/27/2016 6:18:49 AM   
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In my country, deals like this happens almost every week ha! There is always a big sale somewhere. And yea, they always got these limited quantities of ridiculous cheap items.

I guess we tried to have a "Black Friday" called "The Great Singapore Sale", but usually it's lacklustre. As in, because there are so many good sales all year round, no mad rush for the GSS.


Yeah right timmy...better for you to stay in idaho where imagination is trumnped by fact.

You would need around 5,574.17$ (7,955.72S$) in Singapore to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with 3,400.00$ in Boise, ID (assuming you rent in both cities).


https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=United+States&country2=Singapore&city1=Boise%2C+ID&city2=Singapore

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RE: Black Friday - 11/27/2016 7:22:33 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Greta75
Man, you know Chinese people are very superstitious about names, and calling something "Black Friday" would be seen as damn bad luck over here.
But it seems like Black Friday became really dark.
Shootings in malls and deaths. Things got violent!
I am curious. How cheap does things get in Black Friday precisely? 70% off shelves price?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29



Interesting article.

I always thought Black Friday was the last Friday before Christmas when work stops and the pre Christmas drinking begins. Shops close early to avoid the mayhem and Emergency Departments get ready to treat the injured, the nervous and those in need of urgent detox. Always best to get your shift requests in early if you work in the NHS or law and order. A night to get out to the pub early and get back home early before the "fun"descends into the flotsam of humanity clogging up the gutters.

In the last couple of years in the UK we have toyed with the US notion of "mad" sales but it's all a pig in a poke if you ask me (which you didn't). Old stock sold cheap when people's resistance is low after having to put up with Christmas marketing from the end of September.

Blughch.

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RE: Black Friday - 11/27/2016 8:12:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		There have been reports of violence occurring between shoppers on Black Friday. Since 2006, there have been 7 reported deaths and 98 injuries throughout the United States. Which isnt actually bad when you consider the American death rate per day from their guns is hmm that cant be correct fek me its 100/day x 12 days - 1 200 dead and 40 000 injured from shooty stuff. Seems like safe havens would be these stores

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RE: Black Friday - 11/27/2016 9:01:38 AM   
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I always thought Black Friday was the last Friday before Christmas when work stops and the pre Christmas drinking begins.

It is called "Black" Friday because on that day merchants hope annual ledgers will turn from "red" deficit to "black" profitable.

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RE: Black Friday - 11/27/2016 9:18:01 AM   
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RE: Black Friday - 11/27/2016 11:21:05 AM   
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RE: Black Friday - 11/27/2016 12:27:51 PM   
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I always thought Black Friday was the last Friday before Christmas when work stops and the pre Christmas drinking begins.

It is called "Black" Friday because on that day merchants hope annual ledgers will turn from "red" deficit to "black" profitable.

^That is correct.

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RE: Black Friday - 11/27/2016 1:40:28 PM   
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RE: Black Friday - 11/27/2016 1:53:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actually you are correct but it should be called 'green' Friday...the color of money. You know, that overriding culture of the capitalist diaspora and his ilk.

At or more than $27 billion taken in...in one shopping day. Oh...and most of it borrowed of course.

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RE: Black Friday - 11/27/2016 9:33:59 PM   
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In my country, deals like this happens almost every week ha! There is always a big sale somewhere. And yea, they always got these limited quantities of ridiculous cheap items.

I guess we tried to have a "Black Friday" called "The Great Singapore Sale", but usually it's lacklustre. As in, because there are so many good sales all year round, no mad rush for the GSS.


Yeah right timmy...better for you to stay in idaho where imagination is trumnped by fact.

You would need around 5,574.17$ (7,955.72S$) in Singapore to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with 3,400.00$ in Boise, ID (assuming you rent in both cities).


https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=United+States&country2=Singapore&city1=Boise%2C+ID&city2=Singapore

You are so ridiculously clueless about Singapore. I seriously don't know how they measure standard of living. But I reckon living in idaho means, no conveniences to anything. No freshly cooked cheap food 24/7 a day. Gotta actually cook yourself to eat fresh quality. That seem to be IMO, a more stressful standard of living for someone who hates cooking like me, but still want freshly cooked everyday. Cheap food in US means processed yucky fast food.

We are the country with the cheapest Michelin starred restaurant in the world. So we can eat cheap and also the best.

A person can definitely live pretty comfortably with 3500 over here. Very comfortably. Would want for nothing.

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RE: Black Friday - 11/28/2016 7:28:46 PM   
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