What's the apple shopping event on Friday 23rd November 2012

Black Friday.

It's a shopaholic's special holiday shopping event retailers use to sell more stuff. Usually products are sold at discounts during the usually one day event. If you have too much money and need to spend it, then this is your day.

Usually all stores have Black Friday sales, not just Apple.

The first day after Thanksgiving - purportedly the "busiest" shopping day of the Christmas season in the US and some other countries - with retailers offering all kinds of super discounts, sales, etc. In reality, its a day of frustration and stupidity, the super sales are largely smoke and mirrors, and the crowds pretty much unbearable. Apple historically has not done much in the way of discounts or sales for this, so don't expect any deals on iPads and such.

Sadly, it's a day when many Americans act like idiots to save a few bucks...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)

Which infers that the rest of the world doesn't act like idiots to save a few bucks?

Kappy wrote:

Which infers that the rest of the world doesn't act like idiots to save a few bucks?

Just not so much on that specific day 😝.

I beleive the madness has caught on a bit in Canada and the UK as well.

Hmmm. Try Asia, the Middle East, just about everywhere. It doesn't require Black Friday. Just any opportunity to save money. If we didn't attempt to save money then we would be idiots. 🙂 And, this has been going on for tens of thousands of years and longer.

You think the vast majority of shoppers actually save money on Black Friday?

James Ward4 wrote:

You think the vast majority of shoppers actually save money on Black Friday?

Technically, nobody that shops on Black Friday saves money ... They spend money on Black Friday. 😁

I don't know, but if you are willing to do the research, collect the data, and analyze it, I'm sure you will find out, Jim.

But if you were to ask, "Do they save more money on Black Friday then any other sale day?" then I'd say, "No, they probably do not."

Who's Jim?

Sorry, James. 🙂

Black friday is the day that most retailers traditionally moved to profitability (black) from losses during the rest of the year. The US has turned this Accounting phenomenon into a shopping event to celebrate. It has become a tradition with college gridiron "foot" ball and overeating (even for americans!). Maybe soon there will be a deep fried McTurkey.

Apple usually doesn't discount their products much if at all. most of what you'll see pertaining to apple products can be things like Best Buy offering you something like 'earbuds, case and screen protector for only $$$ with the purchase of .....', in other words they can't discount apple products so they discount other things to bundle with them

The phenomenon of black friday will have countless people camping outside retailers as early as thursday afternoon to be 'first in line' when the stores open in the wee hours. The sad thing????? In the past few years they're standing in line to try and snag pathetically understocked 'doorbusters' (things advertised at spectacularly cheap prices with the catch of 'quantities limited'....which can mean a store can have as few as a couple of each item with hundreds of people trying to get them). Also, many of these doorbusters, if you do your research, are discontinued or old products that they've been keeping in warehouses to sell on black friday instead of clearancing them out months ago.