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I hate that American conglomerates are trying to make America's "black friday" crap a thing in the UK. I hope Trump does as maximum a number on America's economy as possible.

Forgive me, but I recall reading an LJ post from a London-dwelling friend recounting the horrors she endured accompanying her mother on a... Boxing Day sale? This was in 2002 or something. Seems to me the UK never needed any persuading.

Boxing day sales are a traditional UK sale, goes back to the Victorian reinvention of Christmas. Black Friday is unambiguously American, with a trigger even that has no analogue in UK culture, and can bugger right off.

Right, so let me get this straight. What you're objecting to isn't excessive commercialism, but this particular instance of excessive commercialism, while all the others are fine.

That's pretty weird, but carry on.

From 2013: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2529381/Boxing-Day-sales-begin-Thousands-queue-grab-post-Christmas-bargains-stores-slash-prices-50.html

"As the doors opened at 9am at Selfridges in London, security guards urged them to ‘keep calm’, shouting ‘there are old people and children in the queues, please stop pushing’ and ‘take your time, you will all get in, don’t panic’."

Re: Sodding American Bastards

(Anonymous) - 2016-11-25 00:13 (UTC) - Expand

Sssshhh, don't confuse its poor little brain. The mental gymnastics have clearly worn it out already.

American commercialism has no right to impinge on other cultures' unique and diverse forms of commercialism.

Re: Sodding American Bastards

(Anonymous) - 2016-11-25 02:18 (UTC) - Expand

With the amount of excessive commercialism western society has, I don't blame anyone for not wanting another day of rush sales imported into their country, since they think they already have enough.

loooool "you american pigdogs with ur filthy 'black friday' i hope your economy fa-- wait, what's that? no, no, boxing day totally isn't the same thing you blasted sots LET ME HAVE THIS GOD DAMN YOU I DON'T NEED A SEDATIVE I OWN THIS DAYROOM YOU CAN'T PUT ME BACK IN THE ISOLaaaaa...*"

The lesson here is that humans are the same no matter which country they come from. And boy do they love shopping.

In addition to the traditional aspect of Boxing Day sales, it is also practical because shops want to clear out extra inventory that sell before the holidays. Exactly like the after Christmas sales in America.

Black Friday is just to stimulate consumer spending and detract from the higher cost of goods in the run up to the holidays. Black Friday sales means companies can't lower prices near as much before Christmas without hurting their bottom line. So one day of frenzy to whet their appetites and then sell everything at a higher cost and triple profits.

I think "steeped in tradition" is a transparent excuse and does nothing to ameliorate the terrible things that these sales create.

With the demand that skyrockets in the lead-up to Christmas, there's little reason for businesses to lower prices in the first place. Still, whoever came up with Black Friday was a real wizard. You'd think companies would have pushed for this in the UK and other places sooner, when you just know the consumer's mentality is already there.

Asda are the ones who inflicted it on us and then last year they didn't even do Black Friday sales. Dunno about this year as we don't have one close by, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.

I hope Trump does as maximum a number on America's economy as possible.

Blow me.

Don't give in! Fight the power!

We'll drag your dumb ass down with us, fucknuts.

We've burned ourselves down with Brexit just because we could.

I swear to god fuck with us and we'll kill you all with us.

I LOVE Brexit!

whatever, I might just use the system to get cheap stuff.

So you want to screw over a whole nation of people including those trying to scrape a living because your pissy about the UK adopting something from us you dont like?

You're an entitled pissbaby

Hey, I just got a brand new 3DS for $99 thanks to Black Friday. No complaints from me here.

Just don't go shopping. I've never been shopping on Black Friday in my life. If enough people don't do it, it won't be a thing. In the US, there's a big backlash against stores trying to start the sales on Thursday and making their employees work on Thanksgiving, to the point that companies advertize that they will be closed Thanksgiving because it's good publicity. REI even stays closed on Black Friday.

I'm baffled they're trying to make thanksgiving happen in some of our stores. Baffled.

Stop trying to make Thanksgiving happen! It's not going to happen!

And if it must happen, can it not be Harvest Festival in September? That is the closest thing to actual thanksgiving here, we're "thankful" for the safe completion of the harvest and praising God (well, we say that but really were praising the weather -or trying to appease the weather, depending on the weather we had that year- the early Monks and Saints just slapped the Jehovah brand on something already pre-existing) for the bounty of the year.

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