The website \u201cBusiness Insurance Quotes\u201d offered a column in its Monday newsletter entitled \u201c10 Reasons Black Friday is awful and needs to go away.\u201d<\/p>\n
I have to say I agree with that point of view, having seen idiots make even bigger fools of themselves as they scrum into stores, elbowing one another, pushing one another and trying to pretend to be having a good time.<\/p>\n
Here are six of the the reasons why Business Insurance believes there should be a Black Friday blackout:<\/p>\n
\n(1) It\u2019s dangerous. A few years ago, a Walmart worker was trampled to death. Dozens of people are injured, store employees and customers alike.<\/em><\/p>\n \n(2) Shopping rage isn\u2019t worth it. Like road rage, shopping rage turns normally ordinary and polite people into dangerous maniacs as they scramble to get hold of some special thing they think will make a good gift. Some people even are killed when shopping-raged customers go at it.<\/em><\/p>\n \n(3) Retail workers lose their Thanksgiving. Stores are opening before Friday, some as early as 10 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day.<\/em><\/p>\n \n(4) The best brands aren\u2019t usually on sale. \u201cSome of the best deals you\u2019ll find during Black Friday are on electronics, like TVs and laptops. The only problem, they typically aren\u2019t brands you would consider buying at any other time of the year. The prices are cheap, but the products often are, too. Kitchen appliances on sale are often more poorly made than the full-price versions and are items you won\u2019t use frequently, like donut makers and low-grade blenders.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \n(5) Retailers have purposefully low inventories on the Black Friday bargains. They know customers, seeing Black Friday items already gone, tend to buy more expensive goods. \u201cThe problem with these impulse buys is that you don\u2019t always know if they\u2019re actually good deals or not. You haven\u2019t compared prices, read reviews, or thought about whether you really want the item.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \n(6) It\u2019s making us crazy rather than thankful. There\u2019s not much about Black Friday for which to be thankful. \u201cIf we could just end Black Friday now, that would give us all something else to be thankful for.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Amen to that.<\/p>\n And by the way, Small Business Saturday is much more satisfying, and much better for the communities in which we live, because the money from small businesses pretty much stays at home.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The website \u201cBusiness Insurance Quotes\u201d offered a column in its Monday newsletter entitled \u201c10 Reasons Black Friday is awful and needs to go away.\u201d I have to say I agree with that point of view, having seen idiots make even bigger fools of themselves as they scrum into stores, elbowing one another, pushing one another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-5744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}