Black Friday

The days are getting colder and nights are getting longer. Nauseating Christmas ambiance is slowly entering the atmosphere, but before it arrives for good, black friday is an ideal day to get scammed. American commercial holidays have spread around the world in recent years and are quite impossible to avoid, but really, giving up on celebrating won't be the end of the world. The stores will trick you with their attractive deal into spending "less" money on the things you actually don't need. At the end of the day they will keep your hard earned money and you will keep your new piece of garbage that will be left unused. 

 

The fact that most people are struggling financially, especially in recent years prompted many to evaluate their spending and overconsumption habits. Perhaps it is because of that analysis that the holiday is not, as The New York Times puts it, “what it used to be'' in Black Friday Isn’t What It Used to Be. Today people finally see through the tricks and illusions that stores put on for the day. For example, the prices get inflated right before the holiday, so when the day comes, retailers are expecting the customers to be amazed with the price that is still astronomically high.  

 

If more and more people know that black friday is a scam, why do they still shop? What is the appeal? The fact that it is one of many holiday season traditions is just attractive to some people. We also can read in the Black Friday Isn’t What It Used to Be article: “Just standing in line is a childhood memory,” it has a nostalgia factor. Also once in a while one lucky customer will find the product they were looking for on sale instead of just overstock that the store owner is trying to get rid of. Fomo is forcing people to go back for more. 

 

Not everybody goes back though. The black Friday 2023 was a shocking turn of events. Retail workers on social media sites like tik tok shared videos from work that day. In some, instead of herds of people fighting in the stores for TVs or microwaves we can see that there are hardly any customers. Can it mean that people see so little point in physically going to the stores that they stay home and browse the internet in search of bargains instead?  

 

Commercial holidays are a scam and people are slowly realizing it. More and more young people are beginning to challenge their habits and take up a fight with a world run by consumerismWith December and holidays approaching, let's try to be mindful about our spendings and control our money spendings when it comes to things like fast fashion or seasonal trends.