Black Friday

Avoiding like the plague. These are not really discounts, just another example of money off offers which are around constantly. Hardly ever need to pay whatever full price is these days. M&S had 20% off vouchers last weekend for example.

Completely opted out! There is nothing that I need and I think we will just go out for a walk!

I do my food shopping on a Friday, will go a bit later in the hope that any crowds might have dissipated a bit!

I'm joining buy nothing Friday.

I think its a great pity that we have adopted the title of Black Friday for this discount day and I don't think there are any more bargains than there would have been. I might have a look on JL for new pans as I recently boiled dry 2 of mine!

Well Oak Furniture Land certainly is Anya they must belong to the same group as DFS.

Anya

I refuse to take part, I shall not go to shops or buy online.

I think DFS are having a sale

It has been - I have to agree with you there ab! The 'bargains' have been on offer all week and will probably continue to be so over the weekend.

It's been Black Friday for days

If you do it online, that's fair enough for a bargain, I wouldn't rush round the shops though.

Some people are thankful for the reductions just before Christmas. It's the same as sales on Boxing Day when people used to queue from Christmas Day for a bargain.

It's Thursday

Oh, is it Black Friday?

I've finished my present shopping
<very smug emote>

I went around the shops today, only because I had to pass through the city. If they reduce items so much one can see how much the shops must make.
All I got was a Christmas card reduced as it says:
'Happy Christmas, you guys'
Just right for my son who lives in NZ!

Black Friday is after thanksgiving - I didn't know we celebrated thanksgiving. That will be next.

I will not be doing anymore shopping of any kind until Monday, not even online.

Yes, they are.

The number of e mails are a pest

I've just sent off for a couple of Christmas presents from the Habitat Black Thursday sale, 25 per cent off which means I can buy nicer presents than I would have done. Also a couple of things from Boden which have also started their sale early. That will probably be it.

I have started Christmas present shopping anyway and can't see the point of deliberately ignoring Friday.

I think that it is fine if there is something that one wants and it has been heavily discounted. I bought an Amazon HD Fire last year and I never regretted it. I bought it on line- I could not be bothered being part of a rugby scrum- I am not that desperate for anything. I will look for an office chair on line but if I do not see one, fine.

I think it's fine offering great deals on products, and if people want a bargain they should go for it. What makes me hate the whole black Friday craze is seeing manic people crawling over each other and screaming over a non-brand discounted telly.

Why the hell would people sink this low? They're behaving as if the nuclear apocalypse is imminent and it's first come first serve on the canned food. Get a grip people!

It's just their equivalent of our January sales, getting rid of old stock before the end of their financial year. I don't know why it has caught on here, there's no logic to it. We have our sales in January for the same reason, (people have been known to sleep outside shops, behave badly etc.,) and in July to make room for winter stock. I shall ignore 'black Friday' and hope it goes away.