Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday and many businesses are closed the following day. That brings an awful American tradition known as Black Friday. Stores open at midnight (and now some as early as 5 PM on the holiday itself) advertising huge (and sometimes deceptive) bargains. Hoards descend on places like Walmart like a swarm of hornets or do their best to burn up Amazon's servers. It is consumerism at its very worst.
SO DON'T DO IT. DON'T BUY STUFF TODAY. You don't need it. It just makes Jeff Bezos richer than God and hastens environmental breakdown. Make today look like one of our big malls did yesterday.
Fat chance. All our family is buying today is movie tickets. We're going to see Mr. Rogers.
Stores here advertise for Black Friday and have sales, but realistically speaking, it's nothing near the bludgeon each other riot scale images we sometimes see out of American Black Friday sales.
ReplyDeleteI took your advice and didn't buy anything but a movie ticket.
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