yea black friday pricing havent been worth it since pre-pandemic. around that time they started increasing the price of product about 2-3 times about a month or two prior that way they can show a "30% off" deal, that way you can spend 270% of the price instead of 100% of the price.

Then they used the lack of event sales as the excuse of why it isn't worth doing decent black friday deals because shocker, as it turns out if someone is buying a high ticket item, chances are they have done the research and have been wanting it, so therefore than can see the TV worth 200$ being sold at 300$ at a 30% off is just a pure scam.

It's also the reasoning that many retailers sell specific event merchandise using its own UPC. They don't want the consumer being able to do the research to see they are being ripped off.

Price trackers are great for this because you can see when they jacked it up a month or two prior so they can bring it down as a black friday sale.

You can still shoot people over a microwave. It's in the constitution. 🇨🇰

Now it’s everything for half the double.

Black Friday is now over a month long so it kinda lost it's importance to bargain shoppers.

blackfridaydeathcount.com/

we still talk about you

Black Friday is so dead they've got Bruce Campbell fighting it.

Things are so bad that the expression isn’t even “we used to be a proper country” anymore. It’s now “we used to be a country.”

If you doubled the price last week, you can mark it 50% off and still make all the profit!

Back before I knew Amazon was cartoon supervillain evil, I caught a lightning deal on black friday for an Xbox 360 for like $50, at a time when you couldn’t get one at all. After that every black friday deal has paled in comparison, so I just don’t leave the house or buy anything online that whole weekend.

The deals were never good, you just have the Internet now so it's easier to spot the scam.

that's republican america, since tuesday everyone gets a free microwave

And they mark it up 30% 2 weeks before.

Back in the day, South Park had an excellent 3-part episode about Black Friday. I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago.

Black Friday used to be the hunger games.

I mean... you can still beat someone up, if that helps...

And if you need a bargain, once they're on the ground you can take their phone

EDIT: Ok, I'll admit it... this sounds bad. But hear me out. What if we had just one day every year when it's acceptable to do something like this?

Yes, let's glorify past rampant consumerism over current rampant consumerism. Absolutely brilliant.