Early Holiday Shopping Report: Mixed Bag
The initial push to the 2013 holiday shopping season is off to a slow start – but the retail aYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Walmart sold 2.8 million towels on Thanksgiving
Why Black Friday’s surprise hit was a 29-cent washcloth
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/black-fridays-surprise-hit-a-29-cent-washcloth-2013-11-29
Yesterday, Walmart stores opened at 6 p.m. and processed more than 10 million register transactions in its stores through 10 p.m., the company says. The store sold 2 million televisions, 1.4 million tablets and 1.9 million dolls. But that’s child’s play compared to the number of towels it sold — 2.8 million.
Why the ravenous demand for linens? Walmart offered a doorbuster deal on towels: Customers could get a six-pack of washcloths or one bath towel for $1.74. If Twitter is to be believed, towels deals may have been fight-worthy. Several shoppers tweeted they saw fights break out over the towels: including @anthony2328 who wrote “I just saw the best fight tonight at walmart tonight over towels !” (Walmart has not commented.)
Well, a towel is the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
“Charlie Chan say cheap towel is most welcome and useful when honorable woman wiping blood off face received in most disgraceful dispute.”
“Shoppers spent an average of $407.02 – down from $423.55 a year ago. That translates to $57.4 billion in total sales – down from $59.1 billion last year.”
GOOD!!!!! I hope the retail greed-mongers who forced their employees to work on Thanksgiving Day, rather than spend it with their families, wind up losing their asses, this season! You can bet the damn CEO’s and their staffs weren’t working that day.
You said it. I always go hiking on Black Friday while all of the dumbasses fight each other over some big screen TV that they will pay for with a credit card that they will never pay off.
Not that I disagree with the sentiment surrounding the decay our present society, but have you considered that some of the working poor might have appreciated the opportunity to make money that day?
I have, but a bet a lot more who needed a job and the steady income it provides would rather have had an all-too-rare day off with their families, too.
I have been in both situations over my lifetime. As I get older, I realize that time with family is something that, once it is gone, you can never get back.
Damned hippies!
I sold out in the 80’s, what the hell is the problem? Surely it can’t be not enough credit to get shit with.
Don’t ever forget – the one who dies with the most toys wins!
Of course, that Chinese crap is getting old fast… we need more brightly colored crap – new crap, FASCINATING crap! … not recycled old crap in a different package!
TVs and cell phones – I mean, WAKE UP! we’ve already GOT everything! How about some NEW electronic gadget? Let’s cross the brain/chip boundary already! Get rid of the keyboard altogether… how about a little spin-off from fission technology, Uncle Sam? Let’s have a generator that runs on safe nuclear fuel in a AA battery! Pocket sized C02 lasers to replace projectile weapons! cheap 3d printers that print metal!
Some new super vehicle that’s so dangerous every kid will want one! Affordable personal flight!
Affordable rail guns!
We need new crap!
Happy Fun Ball