Walmart Starts Black Friday at 10pm Thursday

[Slimprofits]

Moving the inevitable riots up by 7 hours..... I look forward to the news footage of the fools lining up all day on Thursday.

http://www.11alive.com/news/article/...-10pm-Thursday

Walmart has announced it is joining Toys R' Us and starting Black Friday at 10pm Thanksgiving Night.

[lektrode]

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and The Race to The Bottom begins...
i mean what do they really accomplish with this tactic?
other than to pull-forward by a day or 2, sales that would happen anyway?
what - take a few bux more out of the competition's till before they can lure em in the next day?
how in hell does this help total sales volumes? they spend their wads, theyz done anyway - whats another day?
its the same madness that has hijacked the election process...
that starts a year-1/2 before.

[Sutter Cane]

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Not to mention the poor (literally, with Wal-Mart wages) employees who will now have to work an all-nighter the day after a major holiday.

This Thanksgiving I am visiting one of our nation's least-crowded national parks, and come Black Friday I hope to be a thousand miles from most of humanity.

[Slimprofits]

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[charliebrown]

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Would that be big-bend? I love that park. I nearly ran out of gas getting there, because I filled up at the last station before the park, drove nearly 200 miles, then the gas station on-site was closed when I got there. Go outside at night for the the most beautiful sky in the U.S. Also a lot of really unusual birds hang out there, like ones that are in Mexico or central America.

I have gone to black friday events before, just to check out the hype. I didn't stand in line, because I'm not going to get up early just for a silly sale, but I do find myself rising at 5:30 - 6:00 AM due to insomnia. I live one mile from a target and am up anyway. I never bought anything, because by the time I got there the deals were already gone.
A few years ago I tried to get a wii game for my kids, it was gone in the first half hour. I think I picked one up at amazon without the hassle. Now that they have moved the starting time earlier by a few hours, there is no reason to go. I'm not going to wake up early to be pepper-sprayed.

And that post about the employees having to work .. right on. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Family and Food without all the mercantilism and busyness. Now they destroyed that holiday for retail workers and their families'

[Sutter Cane]

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Would that be big-bend? I love that park. I nearly ran out of gas getting there, because I filled up at the last station before the park, drove nearly 200 miles, then the gas station on-site was closed when I got there. Go outside at night for the the most beautiful sky in the U.S. Also a lot of really unusual birds hang out there, like ones that are in Mexico or central America.

I have gone to black friday events before, just to check out the hype. I didn't stand in line, because I'm not going to get up early just for a silly sale, but I do find myself rising at 5:30 - 6:00 AM due to insomnia. I live one mile from a target and am up anyway. I never bought anything, because by the time I got there the deals were already gone.
A few years ago I tried to get a wii game for my kids, it was gone in the first half hour. I think I picked one up at amazon without the hassle. Now that they have moved the starting time earlier by a few hours, there is no reason to go. I'm not going to wake up early to be pepper-sprayed.

And that post about the employees having to work .. right on. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Family and Food without all the mercantilism and busyness. Now they destroyed that holiday for retail workers and their families'

Actually, Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Went to Big Bend two years ago.

Climbed the highest peak in Texas on Thanksgiving, and intended to do more hiking on Black Friday, but it turned cold and rainy. So I went to Carlsbad Caverns instead! Not a bad little trip. Had never been to that park before, it is cool having such different environments like a high peak (high for Texas, anyway) and a huge cave so close together. Definitely beat being at a big box retailer. Wasn't very crowded, either.

[charliebrown]

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Been to both of those places too, it was probably the same trip. Loved it.

[Starving Steve]

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Consumers are still eager to consume when they should be saving. That is what I find interesting about America. And Federal Reserve Bank policies penalize saving/savers, now more than ever before..... It is as if nothing has been learned at the Fed by this Great Recession and that they are still following the theories of supply-side economics, the same failed supply-side economics that caused this mess in the first place.

America did not grow its way out of debt. America (and much of Europe) is drowning in debt. Consumption postpones the reckoning of paying back the debt, and the frivolous consumption is encouraged by Fed policy.

With higher real interest rates set by the Fed, saving would be encouraged. Debt/deficits could be retired. That saving would fund production. That production would create products that could be exported. Those exports would bring in capital which would allow the economy to grow.

Arthur Laffer and his supply-side economics was a failure in America because deficits do count, and deficits can not be kicked down the road forever. There is a reckoning. Economies do not grow their way out of debt, at least not forever.