That, and people can buy more stuff, of course.
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Similar deals to Black Friday can be expected, mostly electrical gadgets, like laptops, tablets, mobile phones and homeware – including furniture.
“We plan on getting out and doing some shopping”, said Maynard Dean of Bossier City. With the special deals, items are set up in a variety of locations throughout the store where they don’t normally appear. “Well, a bunch of stores, anyway”.
After its famous NY City parade has wrapped up, Macy’s will open its doors at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, kicking off the holiday season with some insane door busters, including 60 percent off Samsonite luggage and 30 percent off all diamond engagement rings.
Shoppers will be able to save between 20 and 70 percent at almost 100 name-brand stores throughout the mall. Plus, millions of items will include fast, free shipping.
“If it’s not on sale, I usually don’t buy it”, said Alecia Miller.
CEOs are eager to publicize this, of course, as if a store choosing to remain closed on an American holiday is newsworthy, but are their motives that pure?
“They have to do promotions to get people into the store”, said Ron Friedman, national leader of Marcum’s retail and consumer products group.
KTBS contacted more than a dozen locally-owned retail stores. He is among those who doubt that opening on Thanksgiving increases overall sales.
“You do get a lot of time-shifting of spending where the person would have just spent the money at a different time, but there’s at least a marginal effect on some consumers”, Jacobsen said. One in five (23.1%) say they will or may shop on Sunday. We run a tight ship.
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About 59 percent of those surveyed said they wanted to receive a gift card, topping the list of requested gifts followed by clothing or clothing accessories, books, CDs/DVDs/video games.
“Sadly”, he says, “the community that used to exist around the Thanksgiving table is now becoming an imagined community of others at the mall”. I’m not so greedy to think that we need to eek out every little dime from a few sales.
Often, better deals can be found around mid December.
Pamela Dean of Shreveport agrees.
“You know we’ve had trucks in and out all the last week and you know we’re carting in stocking shelves and ready to get the cash registers going”, said Justin Pike, Manager of the West Ridge Mall. “That’s what I believe the holidays are about”, she said.
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With stomachs full of turkey and mashed potatoes – or maybe not – they will trade the comforts of home to camp outside stores with hundreds of strangers during the zero-dark-thirty hours of “Black Friday”.
