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three rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right.
In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled "$899.99" and Wallace says "hold".
The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same.
In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with ~~$1099.99~~ struck through with "$899.99" written underneath, and Wallace charges.
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in slovenia we just passed a law that requires shops to state the price change of an item in the last 30 days :)
One of the benefits of being part of the EU :)
I think its a thing here in norway as well. Thats why they just increase the price in early october, just a month ahead of black week bullcrap. Have seen plenty of electronics "super discounted" to the same price they had in september/october
In America we keep the same price but decrease the amount of product. #profit
Oh wow that's cool! I'm from Slovenia too and I didn't know that.
How did you figure out your citizenship then?
I know nothing about your country, is it common to speak English and what's the native language?
It's quite common for people to speak English. The native language is Slovene. It's a really small country in central Europe (much larger than Liechtenstein tho).
I think its a thing here in norway as well. Thats why they just increase the price in early october, just a month ahead of black week bullcrap. Have seen plenty of electronics "super discounted" to the same price they had in september/october
It might actually work if the requirement was a year instead of 30 days.
Also mandate minimum font size for it and that it must be displayed along with the current price anywhere the current price appears.
I honestly think 1 year would be too far back to be actually relevant to the current price, but I can see a 3 month period being a good middle ground.
All of EU is adopting this practice to comply with the EU Price Indication Directive.
I love to see the eu fucking over companies
As a past retail worker. Black Friday was miserable. I worked at Bestbuy. I saw a lot of people breakdown and quit thay day due to the stress. Don't encourage it. If you do go out. Be respectful and remember it's just things that don't really matter. I have never gone out and don't support it especially the trickling of businesses forcing employees to work on Thanksgiving.
Currently at work at the worst company you could ever work for, Big Lots. We've even got extended hours today, but hardly anyone here shopping. ANY corporation that has shareholders has no choice but to become increasingly evil and vile to their employees.
God damn, that sucks... Best of luck pal.
Honestly my entire life is a wreck, my fiance is probably going to leave me because I absolutely can't seem to find a real job and I'm my debt has ballooned like 3x it's size in 6 months because even though I'm a manager who does literally everything you could do working retail, I get paid $10.50 an hour. I quite literally can't afford to eat and am going hungry most days for the last month. Yet the only thing my mind can seem to focus on is saving my relationship but I just feel it drifting every day I can't secure a real job. I've applied to literally hundreds of jobs over the past 6 months, gone to many interviews, called called called and called some more, and yet nothing, no one wants to give me a chance even though I have a decent resume, I'm polite, I'm very good with computers and have no criminal or any kind of bad history. Definitely thinking about ending it a lot lately. Sorry to dump on you, just feel like I need to write this out somewhere instead of just festering in my head.
🤗 I'm sorry your having such a tough time.. Everything is temporary. I know it feels hard right now... Don't make a permanent solution to these temporary problems... Things will change. Keep going. Best of luck to you. 🤗
I was on year 4 or 5 retail, working in a small strip mall that included a best buy. The people swamped the door so hard it came off when the poor kid unlocked them, literally doorbusters and he got trampled and died.
Every year there’s a few deaths to the craze and I made a habit of checking the count every year.
Work at Best buy currently in inventory, last year all week of black Friday we have over 300 online orders at once until we were getting closer to the end of the night. This week so far the most I've seen is 50. We're staffed the same, less so in fact with all the call-outs, but still we have a full team in tomorrow from 1am until midnight.
Years ago, in October I wanted to buy a new TV, my wife said we should wait for black Friday but I just bought it anyway. I keep checking the price day after day and the price of it keep rising slowly every day, until black Friday when it had a 40% sale off and was still more expensive of what I paid two months before.
Speaking of sweet Black Friday deals, I came across this gem recently and chuckled a bit, the nerve.
These transcriptions are getting incredible. I never would have thought it was possible to accurately convey a comic through text, while keeping the meaning and humour intact.
Oh, you're too kind. I can't nearly compete with the masterpieces shown over at alttexthalloffame.org :))
Wrong, Black Friday not $899, but ~~$1099~~ $999
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For anyone who is unaware of what this refers to, it is this website:
The website describes it's services like so:
Our free Amazon price tracker monitors millions of products and alerts you when prices drop, helping you decide when to buy.
The only way to know if a Black Friday price is good is to know the usual "regular" price of the item. That takes planning to jot the price down a month or more in advance and then wait to see what the Black Friday price is. It's all a game.
Also using plugins like camelcamelcamel can help with this. Shows you a graph of history for prices
You've discovered the secret sauce of marketing.
Why are people giving descriptions of their images
So text-to-speech can be used, meme made accessible to people with disability.
Helps accessibility and search indexing
It's so blind people who use screen readers can still enjoy the meme.
That’s awesome
Low price Sale does not exist. It's a myth!
This year especially it feels, prices actually went up for Black Friday. They don't even care anymore.
It definitely does, I've already made out pretty good on a couple things but you have to know the actual price well in advance and shop outside of Amazon
That exact model was $599 in October. I would know, because I bought one.
It's actually a really great smoker, but the app is terrible.
Black Friday not $899, but ~~$1099~~ $999
Sometimes it will be ~~$1099~~ $899 but they may use subpar quality for Black Friday models compared to standard models.
Like TVs for example, certain models that are discounted on Black Friday have lower quality displays, fewer HDMI ports, cheaper speakers, etc. when compared to the "standard" model from the same line, and the ads will downplay or obscure the exact model number so you think you're getting something better than you are when you look it up.