I take no part in this made up bullshit. Black Friday was a disaster for retailers. Small business Saturday was surely a bust, as there are virtually no small businesses left. Now the hoopla for cyber-Monday, as if you won’t be able to buy anything on-line at any time for a low price. It’s all a joke. Retail sales will be terrible this year, as the ongoing recession deepens.
So on that note, don’t forget to use my Amazon Button on the right side of the page if you are going to buy shit you don’t need. TBP will get 6% of every transaction.
For those who block the ads and don’t see the Amazon button, here is the link:
Thanx for the link – I saved it in My Documents
Just think what sales would have been if gas was over $3.00 a gallon.
Dark clouds on the horizon for consumer sales…..
@ Card802
Except for guns and ammo…. and maybe booze….
We shopped on Black Friday … sort of …. we drove around to look at several rental properties for several hours.
What I saw (the parking lots only) was a mixed bad. Yes, the Best Buy, Target, Kohls, and even Sears were fully packed.
EVERYTHING else was not! Furniture stores … empty. All the strips malls on Route 22 … mostly empty. Especially Zombie-like were the Auto dealers. We stopped in the Hyundai dealership around 6PM to get touch-up paint, and were met by a hoard of Zombie-Salesmen — “Hi!! My name is Mark!! Can I help you??” — said so fucking eagerly they had boners. The place was dead, dead, dead.
shit
mixed bad = mixed bag
“Except for guns and ammo…. and maybe booze….” Toilet paper, and toothpaste too!
TP – yes – a more important bargaining tool in a crisis there is not. Mind you my wife has suggested we stock up on women’s hygiene products for the same reason. Maybe not a bad idea. What I really need is a warehouse. We’ll pack it full of these items only and call it “Fran’s Shit. Things You Never Thought You’d Need So Badly”. Single rolls of TP traded for bricks of 22LR….. I can see it now….
Stucky, I thought that “mixed bad” captured it perfectly 🙂
Admin, when I click on your Amazon link I can see a tag for TBP in the url, but as soon as I navigate away from that base page the tag is gone from the link. Is there something going on behind the scenes so that you still get the 6% or are they stiffing you?
@Francis: Maybe we’re married to the same woman? Every time my wife shops at Costco, she brings home 24 packs of toilet paper, paper towels, detergent, toothpaste. She has a 3′ x 8′ closet downstairs loaded with this stuff. There’s only two of us – I’m going to have to shit my brains out, in order to use up all that toilet paper.
My understanding is that if you enter into Amazon using a TBP link, anything you buy on Amazon within the next 24 hours will get credited to me. I have no way of verifying if that is true. I’m sure the massive conglomerate wouldn’t screw me. 🙂
I was quite the aggressive shopper on BF, I almost literally grabbed a rocking musical puppy from a little girl’s hands. As a veteran of the parking wars where other drivers have stolen my intended parking spot, I saw this opportunity and took it. The little girl said, oh mommy… and I grabbed it. Mom said, it’s probably too small for you. Who cares? My little Mathew gets a nice, last one, cloth puppy rocker. I hope Suzanna doesn’t see this!
The crowds were wild on Friday at Target, we were afraid to go to the mall. It was a calmer Saturday and even though Sunday was busy at the mall, the energy wasn’t there.
I tell the sexy mulatta that car commercials offer $4150 cash back on a Dodge and $2000 on a Hyundai. She says that’s only for the non-existent perfect credit customers. I say, even so, they never make those offers in a good economy. 0% interest on a 72 month loan sounds pretty desperate.
OK, I’m going to order some Black Cumin Seed Oil this afternoon. We’ll see if it shows up in your credits 🙂