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grasswire

(50,130 posts) Mon Nov 26, 2012, 03:34 PM Nov 2012

How do all these people afford to shop Black Friday? [View all]

From what I see in the news, many of the most frantic Black Friday shoppers are not well off.

I'd like to know how they are shopping those sales, at the near end of November. A good portion of the 47 percent don't have much money left toward the end of the month.

Please tell me they aren't using credit cards to try to get a bargain, and then making minimum monthly payments to get out of the hole?

I think the whole Black Friday scheme is a real POX on America. Just the latest ruse run by retailers and the media (and the media makes a wad on the advertising!) The ads portray aggressive people who are all hepped up with frenzy. It's ugly stuff.

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How do all these people afford to shop Black Friday? [View all] grasswire Nov 2012 OP

I wonder about that, too. I tend to wait and get the sales closer to Laurian Nov 2012 #1

We learned about some of this with respect to my wife's mom.... NRaleighLiberal Nov 2012 #2

Sounds just like my mother in law 4_TN_TITANS Nov 2012 #5

Maybe Worried senior Nov 2012 #12

My mother was a shopaholic, she used credit cards and would Raine Nov 2012 #23

not everyone is buying stuff they don't need sammytko Nov 2012 #3

exactly - there is no single answer to the question. far more complex. n/t NRaleighLiberal Nov 2012 #6

That's what I did, too. knitter4democracy Nov 2012 #10

Maybe some dipsydoodle Nov 2012 #4

I often wonder the same thing. SheilaT Nov 2012 #7

"Black Friday" sales represent only around 10 percent of all holiday sales onenote Nov 2012 #8

I can't answer for everyone vankuria Nov 2012 #9

I see it literally as marions ghost Nov 2012 #11

then I must tell you that you are wrong in your "knowing" grasswire Nov 2012 #14

Of course many who are fragile economically are bamboozled marions ghost Nov 2012 #16

I'm uncomfortable with your use AlexSatan Nov 2012 #18

no deceit involved in deceptive marketing? no deceit in credit card lending? grasswire Nov 2012 #22

If you consider photoshopping models wearing clothes being advertised AlexSatan Nov 2012 #24

Some stores have layaways that encourage people to go into debt. hollysmom Nov 2012 #13

I put off school shopping liberal_at_heart Nov 2012 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author eugene jones Nov 2012 #17

They Save up money, put off buying things they need until black friday etc JI7 Nov 2012 #19

Credit cards for many of them SoCalDem Nov 2012 #20

I think these excesses are unecessary. smirkymonkey Nov 2012 #21