Black Friday : memes

[-] tilcica@lemm.ee 183 points 2 years 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 91 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ximtor@lemm.ee 32 points 2 years 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 14 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

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[-] JazzGRaffe@lemmy.one 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] GregorTacTac@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

How did you figure out your citizenship then?

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[-] orl0pl@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Also in Poland

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[-] ensignrick@startrek.website 109 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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. 🤗

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

It's funny how when you're doing okay a message like that doesn't feel like much from a stranger, but his a lot deeper when you're feeling at the end of your rope, I appreciate your kindness and compassion. It's just gotten worse and worse every year, I had stability at one time and I was an equal contributer, but I just feel like complete shit about myself constantly and nothing seems to go right. My vehicle which I'm still paying a loan on has been in a mechanics shop for 3 months, the car that I had been borrowing developed a major oil leak and can't be driven so I am stuck getting rides across town with no decent bussing options (which I've admittedly never taken a public bus out of anxiety), my credit cards which I got initially to help my fiance with things have gone unpaid for about 6 months with daily calls from collectors, and whatever else I can't bring to mind right now, but it's all just a decline no matter how hard I try or how decent of a person I try to be to everyone I interact with in my life. And on top of that most of my friends haven't talked to me in years and the one good friend I do talk to every few months or so has her own life and issues to deal with, I have no family anywhere near me and have a bad relationship with my father, my mother is wonderful but I feel even worse dumping my troubles on her because she has no way to help me from across the country and with her extremely limited resources and I know it makes her feel like she failed as a parent because she couldn't provide me with the things she thinks she should have (I don't blame her a bit, she really is a wonderful person), which means the only person who I can talk to about anything going wrong in my life is the love of my life who is being embittered towards me by every compounding issue. I recently got back on ADHD meds after being off them for a decade or more and it's only seemed to serve to make me have energy and no appetite, but not help me that much, I want to try antidepressants for the first time in my life, but the doctors don't make it easy, it was a struggle just to get on the ADHD meds even though I had taken Adderall for 5+ years in the past. It's just overwhelming and never ever seems to let up. I can't play video games any more, television just seems to fade into the background as I'm consumed by horrible thoughts constantly.

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[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

[-] ensignrick@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

1am geezus back when I worked at Bestbuy. 2008ish I came in at 3:30am to sell shitty netbooks to customers waiting in the lines outside.

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 85 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 72 points 2 years 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.

[-] Masimatutu@mander.xyz 34 points 2 years ago

Oh, you're too kind. I can't nearly compete with the masterpieces shown over at alttexthalloffame.org :))

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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 62 points 2 years ago

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

[-] RamSwamson@lemmy.sdf.org 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

three words: camel, camel, camel

[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Right now the product is showing camel. You can wait for it to be camel and then buy, but if you’re patient you’ll catch it when it’s in the camel and save a lot.

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[+] ToeNailClippings@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] diffcalculus@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

Camelcamelcamel

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[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] krush_groove@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 22 points 2 years 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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[-] little_hermit@lemmus.org 17 points 2 years ago

You've discovered the secret sauce of marketing.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

Why are people giving descriptions of their images

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 66 points 2 years ago

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

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 41 points 2 years ago

Helps accessibility and search indexing

[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 17 points 2 years ago

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

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

That’s awesome

[-] Sagar@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago

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

[-] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 18 points 2 years 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 13 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years 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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