It’s finally November. As Thanksgiving rolls around, you may be thinking about what are the best Black Friday deals.
Hit your local Walmart for 50% off, new 55-inch tv for $298.Save $70 on a Play Station five. Save over $200 on a new basketball hoop for your kids or yourself.
April Stoner works at Home Depot and was able to share her experience working a Black Friday shift and what deals are available. “I have [worked a Black Friday shift]. It was probably the quickest shift of my entire life.”
Black Friday is known to be chaotic and busy. Stoner described her experience: “…It looked like a massive dumpster fire going on. Or like we’re on the sinking ship of the Titanic.”
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“[There is] a bunch of money off for primarily power tools and Christmas stuff,” Stoner said. She also says that a lot of the things “going on sale” are things that have already been on sale for the past few months.
“I feel like it should be a lesser version of Black Friday so it’s not violent,” Stoner said.
“I think it’s crazy to have Black Friday start at midnight. Take into account the other people like the workers and stuff like this. They have families too [and] they are trying to enjoy the day as well,” AJ Soerens said. Soerens worked in retail in the years prior.
Even though we all know Black Friday as the day or night to stand in line so we can run in and get first dibs on a new TV or a cheap priced item, it might not be the same as it used to be. Walmart has now spread out its Black Friday to multiple Fridays since the pandemic in 2020. According to blackfriday.com: “In 2020, 100 million consumers shopped online (up to 8% from 2019). Meanwhile, there was a huge drop in-person Black Friday shopping – 58.7 million hit the stores on Black Friday (down 37% from 2019).” In other words, there are less in person shoppers than there used to be.
