Black Friday : memes

[-] tilcica@lemm.ee 187 points 11 months ago

in slovenia we just passed a law that requires shops to state the price change of an item in the last 30 days :)

[-] Localhorst86@feddit.de 89 points 11 months ago

One of the benefits of being part of the EU :)

[-] ximtor@lemm.ee 32 points 11 months ago

I think its a thing here in norway as well. Thats why they just increase the price in early october, just a month ahead of black week bullcrap. Have seen plenty of electronics "super discounted" to the same price they had in september/october

[-] ximtor@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

I think its a thing here in norway as well. Thats why they just increase the price in early october, just a month ahead of black week bullcrap. Have seen plenty of electronics "super discounted" to the same price they had in september/october

[-] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

It might actually work if the requirement was a year instead of 30 days.

Also mandate minimum font size for it and that it must be displayed along with the current price anywhere the current price appears.

[-] Localhorst86@feddit.de 9 points 11 months ago

I honestly think 1 year would be too far back to be actually relevant to the current price, but I can see a 3 month period being a good middle ground.

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[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

All of EU is adopting this practice to comply with the EU Price Indication Directive.

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago

I love to see the eu fucking over companies

[-] JazzGRaffe@lemmy.one 10 points 11 months ago

In America we keep the same price but decrease the amount of product. #profit

[-] GregorTacTac@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Oh wow that's cool! I'm from Slovenia too and I didn't know that.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

How did you figure out your citizenship then?

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[-] ensignrick@startrek.website 109 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As a past retail worker. Black Friday was miserable. I worked at Bestbuy. I saw a lot of people breakdown and quit thay day due to the stress. Don't encourage it. If you do go out. Be respectful and remember it's just things that don't really matter. I have never gone out and don't support it especially the trickling of businesses forcing employees to work on Thanksgiving.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 36 points 11 months ago

Currently at work at the worst company you could ever work for, Big Lots. We've even got extended hours today, but hardly anyone here shopping. ANY corporation that has shareholders has no choice but to become increasingly evil and vile to their employees.

[-] ensignrick@startrek.website 19 points 11 months ago

God damn, that sucks... Best of luck pal.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago

Honestly my entire life is a wreck, my fiance is probably going to leave me because I absolutely can't seem to find a real job and I'm my debt has ballooned like 3x it's size in 6 months because even though I'm a manager who does literally everything you could do working retail, I get paid $10.50 an hour. I quite literally can't afford to eat and am going hungry most days for the last month. Yet the only thing my mind can seem to focus on is saving my relationship but I just feel it drifting every day I can't secure a real job. I've applied to literally hundreds of jobs over the past 6 months, gone to many interviews, called called called and called some more, and yet nothing, no one wants to give me a chance even though I have a decent resume, I'm polite, I'm very good with computers and have no criminal or any kind of bad history. Definitely thinking about ending it a lot lately. Sorry to dump on you, just feel like I need to write this out somewhere instead of just festering in my head.

[-] ensignrick@startrek.website 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

🤗 I'm sorry your having such a tough time.. Everything is temporary. I know it feels hard right now... Don't make a permanent solution to these temporary problems... Things will change. Keep going. Best of luck to you. 🤗

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[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

I was on year 4 or 5 retail, working in a small strip mall that included a best buy. The people swamped the door so hard it came off when the poor kid unlocked them, literally doorbusters and he got trampled and died.

Every year there’s a few deaths to the craze and I made a habit of checking the count every year.

[-] elementalguy2@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Work at Best buy currently in inventory, last year all week of black Friday we have over 300 online orders at once until we were getting closer to the end of the night. This week so far the most I've seen is 50. We're staffed the same, less so in fact with all the call-outs, but still we have a full team in tomorrow from 1am until midnight.

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 85 points 11 months ago

Years ago, in October I wanted to buy a new TV, my wife said we should wait for black Friday but I just bought it anyway. I keep checking the price day after day and the price of it keep rising slowly every day, until black Friday when it had a 40% sale off and was still more expensive of what I paid two months before.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 71 points 11 months ago

These transcriptions are getting incredible. I never would have thought it was possible to accurately convey a comic through text, while keeping the meaning and humour intact.

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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 64 points 11 months ago

Wrong, Black Friday not $899, but ~~$1099~~ $999

[-] RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Speaking of sweet Black Friday deals, I came across this gem recently and chuckled a bit, the nerve.

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

three words: camel, camel, camel

[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

For anyone who is unaware of what this refers to, it is this website:

https://camelcamelcamel.com/

The website describes it's services like so:

Our free Amazon price tracker monitors millions of products and alerts you when prices drop, helping you decide when to buy.

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[+] ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] diffcalculus@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Camelcamelcamel

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[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

That's why I have extensions that track prices so I have an accurate price history.

[-] Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago

That's why I live in the EU, and they have to include the lowest price in the last 30 days with the "discount" price.

[-] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

That's a strange reason to live in the EU.

[-] krush_groove@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

There's many, many good reasons to live in the EU, fam.

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I'd rather live there for the healthcare, education and public infrastructure.

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[-] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 months ago

The only way to know if a Black Friday price is good is to know the usual "regular" price of the item. That takes planning to jot the price down a month or more in advance and then wait to see what the Black Friday price is. It's all a game.

[-] Jaamulberry@beehaw.org 15 points 11 months ago

Also using plugins like camelcamelcamel can help with this. Shows you a graph of history for prices

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[-] Dettweiler42@lemmyonline.com 21 points 11 months ago

That exact model was $599 in October. I would know, because I bought one.

It's actually a really great smoker, but the app is terrible.

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[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago

Why are people giving descriptions of their images

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 67 points 11 months ago

So text-to-speech can be used, meme made accessible to people with disability.

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 42 points 11 months ago

Helps accessibility and search indexing

[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 17 points 11 months ago

It's so blind people who use screen readers can still enjoy the meme.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

That’s awesome

[-] little_hermit@lemmus.org 17 points 11 months ago

You've discovered the secret sauce of marketing.

[-] Sagar@sopuli.xyz 15 points 11 months ago

Low price Sale does not exist. It's a myth!

[-] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago

This year especially it feels, prices actually went up for Black Friday. They don't even care anymore.

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[-] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Haven’t seen this in the comments, shouldn’t this shit be illegal? Forgive me if i am being dumb

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

For companies "illegal" just means "make more money than the fine you'll pay once you're caught".

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

They'll sometimes bring in the exact same form with a different SKU/UPC so it's technically a new product.

Also look out for weasel words like "Compare To", "X value", or "Special Buy" where they aren't actually saying it's on sale.

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