my mental meanderings...

Day After Thanksgiving Shopping

Ok, so how many people woke up early Friday morning after Thanksgiving to hit the stores to get some shopping done? And how many of you went to Best Buy only to find out that what you wanted to get was sold out? Yeah, me too. It was kind of disappointing. I got there earlier than I did last year, and everything that I wanted was sold out. On the plus side, the line to purchase stuff didn't wrap entirely around the store to the front entrance this year.

So I noticed this year that the after Thanksgiving sales weren't as good as last year. Also at the malls, the lines were so long that it didn't seem worth it to spend so much time in line just to get an extra 10% off my purchase. Even though I didn't get as much stuff this year as I did last year, it still felt good to get out and walk around the mall or the stores. Weird, huh?

Another thing I noticed was that things were way overpriced. Like a small tube of lipgloss at Bath and Body Works was $10! Just for a small tube of lip gloss. I bought a pair of pants for that much on Friday.

It also seems stores are getting more strict on their return policies. My cousin bought a sweater at Guess in the morning and decided by the afternoon that she didn't like it so much, and when she returned it they wouldn't give her any money back. Instead she was issued store credit.

Well anyway, that's my two cents about the supposed "biggest shopping day of the year."

posted by ~clai @ 4:27 PM