re: Is Black Friday Shopping Dead?

I told this story on here before, but an old boss of mine told me that a few years prior to him telling me the story that there was a furniture store that had a piece of furniture his wife wanted and in the paper it had SALE with the price next to it.

She went out and bought it.

In February, that same store had sent out their normal sales paper and they had that same piece of furniture listed as a regular item $100 cheaper that what his wife bought it when it was "SALE".

They have good deals, but the are usually early in the day to basically get people into the stores, but if you wait about 2 weeks before Christmas you can get some good deals.

I remember my dad & I, when I was a kid, used to go on Christmas eve to by my mom's gift. He would get like 70% off then bribe me by buying me something to not tell my mom and tell me that if I say anything next year he wouldn't buy me anything. We would then go to his mom's to get her to rap it.

He pretty much explained to me that some things matter more to women than to men and what they don't know will not hurt them so as long as my mom thinks he didn't wait until the last minute to get her gift, that's all that mattered..

But he had his wad of cash he kept to himself so if he was buying anything with it, he was going to make sure he got it as cheap as possible.