IS it just me????

[Racket_Man]

or are all of the big box retailers running continuous DOOR-BUSTER-SALES during the week AND weekends.

I was watching TV on Tuesday night (NCIS fan here) and during the 2 hours on over-the-air network TV I observed no less than 6 - 8 door-buster type adverts. even Toys R Us is running "special" sales like mad.

I have not seen any for the Clearance Swamp YET though they did send out a discount coupon flyer but no catalogue type thing since Thanksgiving.

Anyone else notice this????

[raudf]

It's not like Black Friday was anything other than a marketing idea and a media circus. I'm constantly getting emails about, "New BLACK FRIDAY DEALS ALL WEEKEND!!!" or "New CYBER MONDAY DEALS ALL FRIGGIN WEEK!!!!!!" So, is there ever a time when a deal of this sort isn't running during the holidays?

[XCashier]

The Christmas shopping season is shorter than normal this year. (The adverse weather isn't helping.) Retailers are more desperate to make plan. Therefore, more and bigger sales. So no, it isn't just you. The lunatics have long since taken over the asylum.

[Pixilated]

The Christmas shopping season is shorter than normal this year. (The adverse weather isn't helping.) Retailers are more desperate to make plan. Therefore, more and bigger sales. So no, it isn't just you. The lunatics have long since taken over the asylum.

And I think the fact the economy is still lurking near the bottom of the tank in most places isn't helping either. I am old enough to remember when stuff went on sale after Christmas. Now stuff goes on sale in mid-November in some stores.

[fireheart]

And I think the fact the economy is still lurking near the bottom of the tank in most places isn't helping either. I am old enough to remember when stuff went on sale after Christmas. Now stuff goes on sale in mid-November in some stores.

Stuff still goes down cheaply post-Christmas over here.

In fact, one year (well before I was born) they did a Black Friday-esque post-Christmas sale over here. It stopped after two women fought over a fridge!

Nowadays most post-Christmas crap runs sensibly and people very rarely fight over stupid stuff.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Our big doorbuster sale is today. We're open from 6 am to midnight now through Christmas Eve--I don't believe that was the original plan.

And of course, we have a truck to do, in addition to putting up all the ad signs, and I don't know what my crew is going to look like.

[dalesys]

... I don't know what my crew is going to look like.

Mirror, mirror ...

[raudf]

And of course, we have a truck to do, in addition to putting up all the ad signs, and I don't know what my crew is going to look like.

Like zombies, which from your posts, would be a vast improvement over what you currently have!

[Ben_Who]

The public gets inured to perpetual sales, just like everything else; retailers have to be louder, louder, louder to get their attention. If you get a chance to watch 1970s advertising, say, on YouTube, marvel at how sedate it can seem.

I noticed about 25, 30 years ago that car manufacturers were starting to lose their damn minds. One that stuck in my head was Toyota's Before-The-End-Of-The-Year-Clearance Clearance Sale. Not a typo. The struggle to be distinctive, and Toyota was the first to finally snap. The others followed quickly.

[Aethian]

I remember when Toyota started with those commercials. It was funny cause around my neck of the woods Ford was king. But then my neck of the woods then was Lansing. The individual dealers used to mock the commercials.