Capitalism wins again.

[SomeStupidName]

Record breaking U.S. Black Friday sale despite an active boycott called by foreign and democrat backed money laundering operations. 

Adobe Analytics, which tracks e-commerce, said U.S. consumers spent a record $11.8 billion online Friday, marking a 9.1% jump from last year. Traffic particularly piled up between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. local time nationwide, when $12.5 million passed through online shopping carts every minute.

https://apnews.com/article/black-friday-...e8a91bffd0


Those Trotsky sniffing Marxist grow weaker by the second! Cyber Monday is tomorrow go and buy stuff, even if it's normal household goods. Lets send a clear message to the socialist movement that it's over.

[andy06shake]

Record breaking U.S. Black Friday sale despite an active boycott called by foreign and democrat backed money laundering operations. 

https://apnews.com/article/black-friday-...e8a91bffd0


Those Trotsky sniffing Marxist grow weaker by the second! Cyber Monday is tomorrow go and buy stuff, even if it's normal household goods. Lets send a clear message to the socialist movement that it's over.

The problem i have with the likes of Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

I that it's a clearance sale of sorts where they essentially discount the stock they cannot get rid of.

You think you are getting a bargain, and sometimes you are, but a lot of the time you are simply helping them shift stock, taking up space that they cannot move.

It's basically inventory management disguised as some sort of magical deal.

That being said, yeah, buy stuff, that's how the world spins, which is just a fact, like it or lump it. 

[DBCowboy]

Record breaking U.S. Black Friday sale despite an active boycott called by foreign and democrat backed money laundering operations. 

https://apnews.com/article/black-friday-...e8a91bffd0


Those Trotsky sniffing Marxist grow weaker by the second! Cyber Monday is tomorrow go and buy stuff, even if it's normal household goods. Lets send a clear message to the socialist movement that it's over.

Apologies but you are wrong on every count.

The economy is terrible and people are suffering under Trump.

Yay socialism./s

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[UltraBudgie]

There is an interesting "hourglass" shape to the gifts I'm considering getting people this year.

Either they last a few weeks, consumables or single-use things, or I want to get things that will last at least a decade or two. No middling-quality! Gifts like that, like "here's a new water kettle that will break in 2 years right after the warranty has expired" are not a gift, they're an obligation!

So much of what's out there is "churn".

That's what bothers me about "capitalism", I guess, is that it makes more money for the economy to push a "disposable" consumerism. Other than that, things seem to be ticking along. Don't listen to the chicken-littles; they're always wrong (until they're right, if they ever are, of course).

[argentus]

Record breaking U.S. Black Friday sale despite an active boycott called by foreign and democrat backed money laundering operations. 

https://apnews.com/article/black-friday-...e8a91bffd0


Those Trotsky sniffing Marxist grow weaker by the second! Cyber Monday is tomorrow go and buy stuff, even if it's normal household goods. Lets send a clear message to the socialist movement that it's over.

"Trotsky sniffing Marxist" , hereafter known as TSMs  ​​​​​​​   I would love to give you a "like", but unfortunately a gltch has rendered my "like" function inert*




​​​​​​​*that's what she said

[SomeStupidName]

The problem i have with the likes of Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

I that it's a clearance sale of sorts where they essentially discount the stock they cannot get rid of.

You think you are getting a bargain, and sometimes you are, but a lot of the time you are simply helping them shift stock, taking up space that they cannot move.

It's basically inventory management disguised as some sort of magical deal.

That being said, yeah, buy stuff, that's how the world spins, which is just a fact, like it or lump it. 

It is just product rotation, but it's also about the returns on the companies investment to make the product and employ the laborers. If it it's profitable it wouldn't be worth doing.

[andy06shake]

It is just product rotation, but it's also about the returns on the companies investment to make the product and employ the laborers. If it it's profitable it wouldn't be worth doing.

It's all about the money.

And yeah, if it were not so immensely profitable.

They simply would not do it.

I prefer the January sales, if im honest.

But im just as guilty of participating in the likes of Black Friday deals as the rest of us. 

[SomeStupidName]

"Trotsky sniffing Marxist" , hereafter known as TSMs    I would love to give you a "like", but unfortunately a gltch has rendered my "like" function inert*




​​​​​​​*that's what she said

In my head I hear it in Sean Connery's voice like in Indiana Jones 3 when he mentions the goise stepping Nazis.

I like TSM that lines up with another acronym that we are not aloud to type out here as it will auto edit it to ... even though it's now a recognized syndrome.

[BeTheGoddess]

[angelchemuel]

I am very pleased to say I am on taget to get all my Christmas gifts this year will have been bought from small, privately run businesses.
For example, one of the gifts my son wants is a thermos flask. I could get it off Amazon, but I'm going to one of my local ironmonger's (hardware) shops and buying it there.
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