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Don't know about that. I have scanned bar codes at big box stores and compared them scanned bar codes at mom and pop, and smaller retailers and the numbers are the same.
Actually, having worked retail for a long time, I can tell you from the reps that come into the store to my experiences with purchasing managers, customers showing me their comparisons on their smartphones/printed off reports from cnet, amazon, etc (before the smartphone was commonplace) and looking stuff up online myself over the years, that there is indeed a percentage of stuff that is made cheaper using weaker components and stripped down models that go into the Black Friday sales.
Overgeneralize? A bit, maybe. But what I say is out there more than most would think.
Actually, having worked retail for a long time, I can tell you from the reps that come into the store to my experiences with purchasing managers, customers showing me their comparisons on their smartphones/printed off reports from cnet, amazon, etc (before the smartphone was commonplace) and looking stuff up online myself over the years, that there is indeed a percentage of stuff that is made cheaper using weaker components and stripped down models that go into the Black Friday sales.
Overgeneralize? A bit, maybe. But what I say is out there more than most would think.
It's out there. Most notably on electronics and appliances. But you're most certainly overgeneralizing.
When i was in the army we got off early t-giving eve & had t-giving & the day after off. During the xmas season we worked 1/2 days the week before xmas & got off at noon on xmas eve & xmas day & 26th off. The same went for new yrs (off at noon on the 31st & the first & 2nd off). Some people had great jobs in the military but i didnt.
I just feel sorry for the people who thought they were going to get to spend a nice Thanksgiving with the ones they love and now have to work. Poor Thanksgiving is being squeezed out by the commercialization of Halloween and Christmas and it looks like it's only going to get worse. It's just so sad.
What discusts me is seeing halloween stuff in august & xmas stuff in sept. Thats crazy.
T-giving day is now also black thursday. The crazy consumers asked for it & have now ruined many peoples traditional thanksgiving day. May you all go into debt.
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