Shopping on Black Friday: how to find real discounts and avoid a crush

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Black Friday in the USA is called the day after Thanksgiving, which traditionally opens the season of Christmas sales. On this day, shops are trying to attract buyers with unprecedented discounts. This is a professional holiday shopaholics and sales managers. For those who do not belong to this categoryFor example, ForumDaily collected tips from experienced people on how to find really big discounts without harming the family budget and their health.

There are many explanations for why this Friday is called black. One theory says that it is Friday after Thanksgiving, the planters and the slave owners arranged sales dark skinned slaves. According to another version, it is on this day that stores get super-profit, Profit information was traditionally recorded in black ink books (losses in red). It is possible that the name Friday gaveand withemployees of the Philadelphia police: there was a lot of work, and no one was allowed to take a day off - because a huge number of people went shopping overnight, which often led to traffic jams, accidents and even violence.

Anyway, Black Friday has become cultural iin America. Shops do everything to increase sales, often without disdaining dishonest receptions. But in this madness of consumerism you can find really profitable offers, for which it was worthwhile to stand in line or to monitor offers on the Internet.

The main thing is not to fall into the traps of cunning sellers and make the most profitable purchases.. And for this clgoes to shopping with a clear mind and a cold heart.

We plan to purchase in advance

To avoid unnecessary shopping, prepare for Black Friday.. Arrange a little brainstorming, think about what you want to buy, consult with your loved ones. The results of reflection set out in a list. Training will help to understand whereIt’s better to shop, find out about store promotions and maybe To buy a thing before the most running sizes or colors disappear from the shelves.

This approach will also help to avoid impulsive spending. It is important to remember that many stores are starting to offer discounts long before Friday.

Analyzing prices

Not all mega offers that day are so profitable. Someone offers excellent discounts, but from a pre-inflated price, and someone in a very small type appends to the proposal disadvantageous conditions for obtaining discounts.

Andrei Prokopenko, the author of the Ukrainian-language blog about New York, says: “A few years ago I wanted to buy a new lens. Just at the beginning of November, the price for it rose, and I suspect that this was done just to announce a more attractive discount on Black Friday. ” Prokopenko advises checking stocks on the site camelcamelcamel.comwhere the entire history of price changes for products from the site is available Amazon.

The site camelcamelcamel.com allows you to see when the price of a specific product on the Amazon website was the lowest and when it was raised

We are looking for discounts online and protect health

Few people want to "fight" for a thing, and then still stand in a long queue at the box office. Black Friday can be found in online stores, sitting at home with a cup of coffee and in your favorite pajamas. There is another advantage - security. Let's give 3 sinister stories that happened on black friday in the supermarket chain Wallmart.

In 2012, in Tallahassee, Fla., Two people were shot during a dispute over a parking space at a supermarket Wallmart. In 2011, in the store of the same network in Los Angeles, a woman was so worried that she would not have time to buy a game console Wii 60% discount, which decided to neutralize rivals with pepper spray. In 2008, in one of shops Wallmart The state of New York 2 is a thousandth crowd that burst into only that the doors that had opened, trampled upon a completely fragile man. In addition, more than a dozen people were injured, including a pregnant woman.

Among other things, by making purchases online, you can save money by going to the store’s website from a special “discount” site, which gives you a part of the purchase price back. Ebates - one of the most popular sites of this kind, he offers returns on purchases at almost 2 thousands of online stores.

When shopping online, be sure to check Is it possible to get a bonus to your purchase in the form of a coupon for an additional discount, free delivery, a gift or something else. You can search for coupons using a simple search in Google or by visiting one of the sites where they have already been collectedAna all information. For example, the Retailmenot or Coupon.

How to win in stores

The bravest of thosewho still decides to go to the shops on Black Friday and will participate in the crowd, may well get additional "buns".

Usually lucky first visitors. For example, a few years ago, the first 100 store visitors H&M Receive coupons up to $ 300 for purchases. The shops Sports Authority they opened their doors at exactly midnight, and the first 80 lucky ones received coupons up to $ 500.

Going to the mall, be alert wear a purse on a belt or use a shoulder bag, because an unprecedented influx of people can take advantage of attackers. Leave cash at home - in case of a theft of a credit card (how to get the first credit card, read in our material) it can be blocked and even canceled purchases. On the other hand, if you really hard refrain from impulsive actions, it is cash that can save you from exceeding credit card limits.

Think about whether to go to the store on your own or with someone. Shopping in the company always takes more time. But carefully thought out articlestrategy, you can split in the store with your friends or relatives and quickly collect everything you need in different departments. That is exactly what Grigory Pogosyan, who almost every year flies with his family to New York from Moscow just on Black Friday, does this. He says that they don’t have time for shoppingto a lot to completely spend it on the pursuit of things - I want to walk around Manhattany Therefore, in such large stores as Macy's, the family can split up, and each goes to the department he needs, and Pogosyan shares his experience.

Muscovite Grigory Pogosyan arrives in the US just on a black Friday almost every year. Photo: from the personal archive

These discounts are not samae high, do not lose our headswoo

Shopping in the United States during Black Friday can be beneficial for residents of the CIS countries and Israel - even with the current exchange rateAllard. In addition to affordable prices and pleasant service, in the United States a better choice, more brands and a wider size range are presented, Pogosyan notes.

However, you can take advantage of American discounts, even without being in the country. Anastasia Sanford says that she was able to build a successful business by helping others to shop in the US online. She tells that in November she has a full house. “During Black Friday, I have to specially reserve assistants. On this day, I traditionally don’t eat, well, if I drink water, orders come in without stopping, and 1 day is about 2 to the usual months of successful work, ”says Sanford.

Anastasia told us that purchases at the end of November are especially popular with residents of the CIS countries, as this is the last opportunity to order gifts to New Year from the USA - parcels just have time to reach. But if to abstract from purchases for the New Year holidays, Black Friday is not the best time for discounts in a year. Anastasia He says that the biggest discounts come from mid-August to mid-September — then summer and winter are given away for nothing.

Read: 8 tips on what tricks - up to price comparisons with competitors - should be used in American stores to get discounts all year round.

It is believed that the most discounts on Black Friday offer on electronics. All the above-described riots in supermarkets Wallmart It happened in the departments of electronics. But not all companies take part in this discount fever, for example, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), - out of the game. On Black Friday, you can buy a player in discount stores iPod, or get a gift certificate for a small amount when buying equipment for the full cost.

В Anyway, if you missed Black Friday sales, there are still Cyber ​​Monday is a celebration of online shopping. Online stores offer excellent promotions and discounts on this day, no worse than Black Friday discounts. After Cyber ​​Monday, Christmas discounts are just around the corner, followed by New Year's and Saint's Day discounts.o Valentine, for Easter - and so all year round.

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