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usrevenge t1_ixu6jf3 wrote

Reply to comment by Laser_Souls in Black Friday online sales to hit new record by wander9077

Lines weren't even long.

The longest line we stood in was 1 person deep. Walmart we literally walked to self checkout and was done in a few seconds because we only had a few things.

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SpaceObama t1_ixufuig wrote

Yeah, but the reason your Walmart had reasonable lines is because of online shopping.

I know quite a few families that do the order online, pick up in store method. My local Walmart even loads it into your car, you just pull up to a spot. They do all their shopping this way.

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Xero_id t1_ixuxati wrote

I work for walmart and most of the black Friday stuff ( tvs & ps5s) were gone on walmart+ online with pickup on Tue or Wed. There's was like 80 total people in the store through 6am to 10am, it was dead.

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cranberrydudz t1_ixvdix1 wrote

Honestly I thought Black Friday traditions would have had the stores crawling with people on Black Friday morning. Weird have times have pivoted

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LegoBrickCactuar t1_ixvi8uv wrote

Its a perfect storm of pandemic, inflation, and lack of exciting products. There's nothing that exciting to buy. For example I have a PC and I guess I'd like a few upgrades, but I'm not paying $1500 for a graphics card. Alot of things are nearly double the price they were in 2019 and its dumb. I'd argue fake inflation, since people are getting wise to this crap and opting to wait or just live with what they currently have.

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JennJayBee t1_ixv4y1o wrote

I ended up going out yesterday as well because I needed to get dog food, but I purposely waited until after lunch just in case. The roads and stores were the most abandoned I've seen them in years. I even dipped into Sam's to grab a few more things, and I ended up walking around for the hell of it because it was just so nice to be able to navigate it without the crowds.

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The_Istrix t1_ixw3sd8 wrote

Hope you gave yourself the employee discount and scanned a couple PS5s as paper towel rolls

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