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Not sure if it was posted already, but Black Friday sales were down 11% this year lol Media spin-cycle barely mentions the massive demonstrations in connection.
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2014-12-01 13:19 #1Black Belt
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Black Friday sales down 11%, Thanksgiving sales plus internet sales up 26% over last year. Yup, must be all the protests.
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2014-12-01 13:51 #3Black Belt
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To say that had no impact would be naive, at best. Walmart being closed for hours on Black Friday at ONE location is crazy. Entire shopping plazas and hundreds of Walmarts having demonstrations means millions lost. We'll probably never know how much Walmart lost, but I'm sure we'll get some estimations in the near future.
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That's still not an 11% impact. At best, maybe a 2% impact. Best Buy having it's site go down for an hour Friday Morning impacted sales more than one WalMart for a few hours. Out where I was shopping, I saw 0 protesters between two best buy's, a shopping mall, and a BevMo. Originally Posted by notorious bum
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2014-12-01 14:08 #5HABS SUCK!!!!!
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I think this is the part he's not wanting to process. People have figured out that instead of camping for 24 hours outside of bestbuy, they can just go online at midnight. Originally Posted by Melena
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2014-12-01 14:17 #6
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How much of the 11% lost was looted?
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2014-12-01 14:19 #7Ridill
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For me, I thought the deals this year were not as good as last year so while I went out to shop, I didn't buy anything.
Did score some online deals though!
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2014-12-01 14:20 #8I trusted Zet and this is what happened
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Shitty black friday sales probably lead to shitty sale numbers (seriously, I wasn't even interested in anything this year except a cooking set at JCPenny)
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2014-12-01 14:30 #9Banned.
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yeah, this year's sales were garbage.
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2014-12-01 14:33 #10BG Content
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This was all over my social media feeds
http://40.media.tumblr.com/58a5322e8...uzbo1_1280.jpg
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2014-12-01 14:43 #11Black Belt
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I'm not denying that sales were down partly due to the decline in interest of Black Friday, but the protestors did a great job mobilizing for both Ferguson organizers and the 3rd year of Walmart workers protesting, seeing a large increase in support.
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2014-12-01 14:52 #12Banned.
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2014-12-01 14:57 #13Relic Shield
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Someone creates a page, makes a claim about wages and taxes without sources, then asks for your email address so they can send you advertisements for other places to shop and, since they don't show their privacy policy, we can assume they are also selling your info for profit! Originally Posted by Mazmaz
edit: Also, the complaints are about taxes in the UK, not the US.
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2014-12-01 14:59 #14Banned.
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What? It's an actual protest.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/201...veto-christmas
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2014-12-01 15:02 #15I trusted Zet and this is what happened
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Sorry, but I actually ordered 5 things today (none were on sale though lol) Originally Posted by Mazmaz
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2014-12-01 15:07 #16Banned.
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The complaints are about working conditions. Read this shit Originally Posted by Acevalefor
http://www.theguardian.com/money/201...ing-for-amazon
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2014-12-01 15:07 #17Relic Shield
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I'm happy for them. They still have a website giving the vaguest of information, no privacy policy, and a request for your email address. Something like that is not going to stop me from shopping at Amazon (because the $150/yr I spend is SOOO much). Originally Posted by Mazmaz
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2014-12-01 15:07 #18HABS SUCK!!!!!
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Off topic: Atleast thats better than the protest they had in Quebec a couple years ago about ridiculous gas prices. The gameplan: "dont buy gas for a day", with no mention of "dont use gas for a day".
On topic: So instead of Amazon, people will just go to Walmart, because thats so much better.
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2014-12-01 15:15 #19The Anti Miz
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LOL @ GIVING UP AMAZON. THEY ARE MY LORD AND ALLFATHER
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2014-12-01 15:15 #20Relic Shield
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Or any one of the dozens of corporate retailers who operate under the exact same standards as Amazon! Originally Posted by NynJa
The point here Maz, is not shopping at Amazon will not change the industry-wide practices. Consumerism is at an all-time high. As long as people want more stuff, they will shop wherever they have to to get it.
