Target responds to backlash following video of Black Friday deals

The TikTok shows someone removing Target's "Black Friday Sale" sign to show matching sales prices on signs used beforehand.

[@Whykon1]

If you ever work retail you see a lot of companies do this exact thing or they will raise the price a month or two before a sale.

[@dc2guy2]

Wait til you find out the EU already banned this practice.

[@kazzsolo8207]

This part!!!💯👊🏼

[@rabbit0664]

This is so true

[@retlawx10]

Unfortunately most people on TikTok are brainless and think everything it’s news

[@MrAchieve2believe]

This never happens. Nobody takes the time to mark things up just to make it back down. Clown conspiracy

[@kiatequila424]

Shopping isn't even fun this year, I have been watching prices. It was a bunch of scams.

[@user-bg8fr3hg1h]

Right I'm good

[@nickgamble4544]

When has it not been a bunch of b.s . I literally never went black Friday shopping because it's just madness. People rushing around sprinting into a store when the gates drop like on a dog track. Everything they did was to incite a panic buy reaction and it worked all for what? $35 off $350 worth of goods? Nah I'm good I'll just pay the extra few dollars and not deal with that headache.

[@krissiet4718]

I agree with you 💯, it’s not been fun for years! I’ve never purchased anything on Blk Friday bc I always knew the things I wanted were not that cheap. They’re not scamming me! 😂

[@SourStrawberrys]

@@nickgamble4544 It hasn't been that way in years. You're behind. Most people buy online now since they began having the black friday deal early and also online so they stores be pretty much empty. To me it is worth just going in a grabbing the item from local store rather than paying for shipping or waiting days just to get it. I order something directly from Amazon on black friday and they haven't even shipped it yet. Yeah, I rather just pick it up from the store if it was an option.

[@vincentdagen1812]

Nah I got a 55inch for 188$ and now today the 50inchers are marked 198. I def got a deal.

[@flickboogers9325]

PetSmart did the same thing. They offered a deal where you buy two dog treats and you would get one free but they raised the price of the dog treat so it evened out😂

[@nboccanfuso]

This is not even close to the same thing. This is just Target changing the signs for black Friday on an item that was already on sale. There was no price manipulation here.

[@denverlilly3669]

Technically, so long as the price wasn't doubled, you're still getting a deal.

[@flickboogers9325]

@@denverlilly3669 They raised the price so that even getting the free one It would have been that you were just paying for three treats before.

[@rdy2brn]

​​​@@denverlilly3669Doesn't have to be double. A 50% price hike is all that is needed to be a wash. No deal whatsoever.

[@rdy2brn]

It's done with tires all the time. Buy three get one free 😂. It amazes me how many people fall for those.

[@mschief-central4940]

I worked at what was a major well known department store back in the late 70s. Nothing has changed. Prices would be increased about a month before Black Friday, then the “sale” prices would kick in. Those sale prices were regular retail before the temporary increase. Difference is we didn’t have the internet to price check, we had the big printed flyers in newspapers for black Friday and the holiday season. I don’t miss working retail one little bit! But it taught me a lot of lessons. Like, don’t shop these big sales, whether in-store or online. Do your homework on things you need and on your holiday shopping list.

[@JS-yj4rb]

You Would think this would constitute a fraudulent advertising lawsuit. People shop Black friday for great deals and low prices but not expect same price or it to even go back to original price and make it look like it's on sale. Deceiving the public.

[@user-pe8po6ct7h]

Oh I'm sure somebody will find the time to sue

[@TV-rm8zc]

I think by now everyone has got a TV in this era. It's just people who want to be the ones to get something for cheap for something they really don't need it's what they want. That's the problem these days people buy more than what they need instead keep buying what they want and return the stuff after they use it. It is in retail stores all over. The American consumers are the worst and seem to never get enough that is what I have seen.

[@siulyeoj]

Yup 7 billion people in the world all have tvs. Okay bozo

[@justbored3.14]

how is it fraud? they never promised a discount for black Friday nor are they obligated to.

[@DHyre]

It’s always been a good idea to watch prices and have a target in mind; then you’ll know if a price is really a deal. In my case, prices on everything I was considering dropped a week in advance, so my Black Friday shopping was done by the Saturday before… and none of them ever went lower. Is it me, or does it feel like entitlement to outright expect or demand an extra discount on Black Friday?

[@that1guy424]

People have been scamming like this for years and years. That’s why I don’t really mess with Black Friday and I just spend Thanksgiving days with my family.

[@AndrewJ1313]

FYI, if you ever shop at stores advertising a liquidation sale, wait until the sale is at least 50-70% to buy anything as that's usually the threshold where you're actually getting a deal from the usual store prices. How you ask? That's a good question; any store going out of business or liquidating products, removes all sales and discounts on the items and sets the price at actual MSRP. So if the store typically sells a $100 MSRP item for $80 and then has sales on the item regularly for $60, the store eliminates all of that and then the liquidation sale starts at a 25% discount on everything. That item you used to get for $60 is now "on sale" for $75. Do people fall for it? All the time. I worked for a company that closed a store and hired a liquidation firm to help. The store we closed did the equivalent of 3 months of sales/profit in 1 weekend. The liquidation lasted 2 months and only the final week were things actually discounted.

[@Gst.Academy101]

I never asked how 😢,

[@hickey4747]

​@@Gst.Academy101keep on scrolling then.

[@Gst.Academy101]

@@hickey4747 nice to see you standing up for your boyfriend 🤭

[@thokomampa190]

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[@raeanna451]

Same with Amazon. I watched the prices of gifts. After all the hype of Black Friday and cyber Monday ended. The prices are the exact same. I feel like Black Friday hasn't really actually been good for a long time. They just bloat the price a few weeks before and then cut it and then after Black Friday it's a "christmas sale". I worked at JCPenney's as well as Boston store and they both did this. And that was like 8 years ago.

[@krissiet4718]

Exactly! There really hasn’t been any “good” Black Friday deals in a very long time! The joke will eventually be on them when the others figure this out!

[@JenniferKokoski]

It depends on the items. There were several things on Amazon I was watching. The price went up on Tuesday but it had dropped last week. So now I'm waiting for it to drop again.

[@raeanna451]

@@JenniferKokoski Amazon is fickle like that. So many private sellers that just Jack the holiday prices up. I'm about to start shopping for Christmas in summer I swear 🤦🏼‍♀️ I guess I'm lucky because the things I was watching prices on are still the exact same price.

[@JenniferKokoski]

@@raeanna451 but these were not things that came from private sellers. They were direct from Amazon.

[@SlamDancinMoogle]

Maybe not for the stuff you were watching, but the PC monitor I was watching was $150 off for Black Friday through Cyber Monday and now is only $20 off. The deals are there, just not for the nonsense people are looking at.

[@metalfreak4791]

I'm surprised they didn't jack up the price for the black Friday sale.

[@finemelon]

Then that means no REAL black friday sale .

[@thystaff742]

No. Many stores started the sales the week of Thanksgiving. This was to alleviate the large crowds which resulted in fights, people getting hurt or killed. They still have select door buster items that they only sell for Friday.

[@frightful95]

What's fun is when you move the sale price and it's the same as the regular price. I've gone through Target moving sale prices to find that there is no sale.

[@tammiemcelya1130]

I remember Kohls did this, I worked there for five years and thought wow… sometimes the discount would be 29.99 to 29.50 or 40 to 39.99 just a few cents off or just changed the paper color to make it look like a sell. Foolery!🤣

[@kazzsolo8207]

I worked at Walmart 20 years ago and this has been a going practice well before I worked there!!! This is why I refuse to do Black Friday shopping because it’s all a lie!!!!

[@r-e_mii]

Target isn't the only one who did this. Ive seen original prices up to the day before thanksgiving be one amount then on black friday, that same original price was listed as higher to make the sale price seem to be a big discount.

[@MrAchieve2believe]

Show pics or it didn’t happen

[@areviewer5177]

You should learn the difference between MSRP and listed price. 🤡

[@ladychamberlainisit]

​@MrAchieve2believe did you drop a dump this week at all? Show pics or it didn't happen 😂

[@Jim22572003]

someone has to pay for all the free stuff they are allowing people to steal.

[@abass4057]

That’s exactly the thing 😂

[@tykendrick800]

They'll do this anyway. Stop it

[@nicoj3660]

Thank conservatives for encouraging crimes by saying it isn't punished. Dumb propagandists.

[@crosstie417]

​​@@tykendrick800oh so glad corporations eat the cost and don't pass off their costs on every sale. Bidenomics guru you could get a job at the white house right now convincing people as dumb as you that they're better off. It's a great gig. Healthcare and a paycheck that we'll won't be worth much long at this rate look up the Weimar Republic for clarification and remember that's how ya get notC's.... like real ones. The very people claiming they hate them creating the specific conditions that gave birth to the movement. Irony.

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

Who cares? People don't need to be spending money on the vast majority of stuff. So as it's not a need, just stop complaining. You don't need some new TV or fancy phone or whatever

[@liamlowenthal8476]

This is why you need to know what you want to get and shop around, online and offline. Don't look for "deals", just look at the best possible price for what you need. Lord knows it's all going to cost you an arm and your first born son anyway. :/

[@Raymel88]

Whoever decided to pull that sign back is a saint

[@manuelvargas5165]

If you pay attention to the price is the same sales happen all year. What they are guilty of is saying that you're getting $300 or 600 off any TV MSRP is what they're comparing it to not the actual price. That is false advertising!

[@areviewer5177]

Anybody who actually budgets and researches and understands finances would disagree with you. Only morons classify that as false advertising.

[@tonyredemann2001]

Like they said in video, they were already doing the sales weeks out. Almost every single store had black friday prices before black friday. Alot of the stores will even tell you this. It's pointless ro actually go on black Friday anymore. If people had actually researched and browsed pricing then all that and the target situation shouldn't have been any suprise. Best buy was even putting "black friday deals" above items online. Seen several of the items and they didnt drop more on friday.

[@analbeats]

Oooor companies could stop false advertising, maybe. Way to ignore the accountability

[@MrBrandenS]

Exactly. They might as well call it Black November since they discount prices out so far now.

[@tonyredemann2001]

@@MrBrandenS 😂

[@dmg.2443]

Is it really discounted though? Or are we just so used to being overcharged for everything that we think we're getting a discount? I know people have their dislikes and speculations about Temu but Amazon sells a lot of the same products at triple the price. I believe a lot of the messaging around sites like Temu are propaganda due to American companies feeling threatened.

[@tonyredemann2001]

@@dmg.2443 stores definitely are marking stuff up for sure. It is discounted from the perspective of what they normally would charge tho. Like they TV I got was normally $2899, but I got it for $1799 and tax free since bought on military base. I'm sure they still made a nice profit tho and would still be considered a decent mark up at the discounted price

[@learning5188]

Most stores do this. Or they raise the prices beginning 2 to 4 weeks before the holiday deals come along then offer the product for slightly under sale price during deal's week.

[@christophershore8481]

As a fan of Portal 2,” The Cake is a Lie”🎂

[@KL9702.]

Best comment ever

[@jayrtrvlr8834]

If you check other stores, they did exactly the same… looking for the black Friday deals… you can see there’s no change on prices 🤦🏻‍♀️ 😡😡😡😡

[@stacymcgeehon2877]

This might shock everyone as well, GOODWILL, THEY REMOVE 90% OF THE COLOR OF THE NEXT DAY. THAT IS WHY IT IS SO HARD TO FIND "COLOR OF THE DAY" ITEMS. You would think GOODWILL, would want to give back to the community as much as the community gives them!!!!

[@ladychamberlainisit]

Goodwill is a scam also, research it

[@waltergill1226]

I've been watching TV prices for MONTHS needing one for my deck area and yes those prices were the same for MONTHS with the only deals I noticed was Walmart with their 65 inch TCL for $228 and Target at one point offering a 70 inch Westinghouse for $299. Very few items were actually discounted(some video games were and some home appliances) but that's it.

[@pyrosaxplayer12]

The heavily discounted TVs were the low-end 60hz refresh rate or like you said, discontinued models. I have my eyes on 3 different 4k 120hz TVs, only went down 10% lol the TVs that got hit with 50-70% off were horrible specs lol

[@waltergill1226]

@@pyrosaxplayer12 man they were horrible! I only broke down and got the 65 inch,$228 TCL from Walmart because it was a TV I was putting outside. It was literally the same TV I had purchased around the same time last year for my son's room. I even went back in my past purchases to check and everything is exactly the same except they added an "R" at the end of the TV model. Probably stands for "refurbished, revamped, reloaded, remade"... Who knows lol

[@robertyoung2819]

I remember buying a 55"... For my cabin in Colorado... It was $1640.00...

[@nboccanfuso]

Why would you ever waste money on TCL or... bleh... a Westinghouse..?

[@nboccanfuso]

There's a reason you won't find any other 70" TVs at that price and it's because they're garbage. And a TCL or Westinghouse would never survive outside anyway

[@heidi5378]

As someone who works for one, we had TV's on sale before Black Friday even came. It's not like how it used to be-all these huge sales on that specific Friday. Nowadays stores offer it prior. It does take away some of the fun, but it also allows more people to take advantage of deals.

[@Itsmestephd]

The mall in the city where I live had deals starting two weeks before Thanksgiving. It's definitely different now days

[@smileychess]

The small software company I work for had the Black Friday sale open for the entire month of November. It was helpful for people who struggled to decide on the purchase; less pressure.

[@crosstie417]

There used to be 90% off deals all over the place on the day of. On items you actually wanted.

[@randomperson6433]

Seems like it started with Covid to spread out the foot traffic in the store. I like the new strategy personally. It’s less overwhelming for staff. At least in my experience. We’re one of the self checkout 10 or less pilot stores so that’s fun too lol.

[@bron5025]

​@@crosstie41790% off all over the place on things people actually wanted? How long ago was this???

[@jackpurlee6150]

My family came to a agreement. Just the grandkids get presents this year .with the prices of food and housing. Let the rich have this holiday. We have each other it's enough

[@jeanne1271]

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[@KL9702.]

Which is more than what the rich have. They tend to be the loneliest people... Some one is always after their money. I'd take my family living in a shack over that any day. Have a blessed Christmas. ❤

[@mattcoldiron5869]

As some one who worked for target for the better part of a decade it has to do with how the computer processes ads. That week there's 3 ads the pre, the black Friday, and the post with the weekly ads usually rotating sunday/Monday. The reason the second sign is there is in the event a black Friday doorbuster doesn't sell out it carries onto the sat ad, which you'd see if they showed the bottom left corner with the effective signage date. Usually there is other stuff added for that ad along the lines of buy so much get a gift card for so much cause they're not sure what will be left over and still wanna have a sale. New ad, new signs. Girl making the video is just doesn't show that part, not saying right or wrong but when I worked there we usually did exactly this cause it's easier to pull all the black signs from the front than to swap them, making for faster turnover. And when you set 3 ads in 4 days ya do what ya gotta do.

[@mattcoldiron5869]

And for anyone saying it's fraudulent technically it's not it's just a processing quirk. The real problem yall should have is the fact that the doorbuster are generally specially ordered products with lower specs. Everybody loves the idea of owning a 70 inch TV and forgets to look at the fact that it's 1080p instead of 4k or that it's made by a brand with quality control issues. Honestly there's a reason all that stuff is cheap

[@grungeera4561]

Shout out to that Fred Meyers clothing section! I see you with the mark up sale. You don't think we go to other stores & see what you're doing?

[@ashleyvillalobos9253]

I bought Nike socks at footlocker that were advertised as by one pack get the other half off (I was originally going to buy both black and white) regardless of “sale”. I bought them. BUT I was curious about this “sale” and checked at the other shoe store a few stores down that had the Nike socks as well and were NOT on “sale”. So had original price of $22. We get home and I’m telling my husband that I suspected they raised the price for this so called sale bc the ones I bought at the first shoe store were “$28”. Long story short at home I realize it’s a new sticker covering the original price so I take it off and there it is. It’s original price of $22 😄 they raised the price to $28 and the others half off but if you do the math you are paying still paying $22 😂 so you aren’t getting anything half off you are just getting “tricked” to buy two instead of one.

[@ziskokid1]

Black Friday starts weeks ahead.

[@ifbfmto9338]

Does it ever really ‘start Z’ at all?

[@colorblindbasshead913]

They're in the business to make a profit, not to save us money. They mark it up to mark it down. They create the sales people, they create the game, and we're just the customer.

[@sandroaces]

Good thing for competition

[@krissiet4718]

They already have a super high profit margin, it would not hurt ANY of these companies to REALLY offer some deep HONEST discounts on Black Friday!!! We, The People are the ones who are HURTING & these companies just continue to raise their prices & profit! 🤦‍♀️

[@Mickieshelton]

If you decrease that price by 40% and the sales jump up 70% in that time-frame..the profit is there. False advertising is pitiful.

[@Sudekip]

They're breaking the law.

[@sharonwilliams901]

Sad

[@cheeseballs3825]

I used to work for artvan. Everything is "on sale" almost all the time. There's some law you can't do that so for a couple weeks certain things would skyrocket in price. People don't want to miss out on a good deal! 😂

[@Sukilicious]

Target has been doing this with their everyday sale price for several YEARS now, so I'm surprised that someone is just now exposing them!

[@gregoryroth9638]

Yes, OMG! These horrible companies lowering their prices but not enough for us entitled Americans. They should know it’s not nice when they realize how ignorant and gullible we are. It’s not the actual cost of the item. It’s whether they say it’s a special sale. We have NO ability to compare prices at every store in the world. How dare they !! 🙄

[@SourStrawberrys]

This is not always true, sometimes you can truely get a sale on items. One year nintendo had their main first party games like Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyesey, and Donkey Kong, etc. for $30. I haven't seen those games on sale for that low since. Now the lowest they go on sale for is $40.

[@SlamDancinMoogle]

Yeah these people are just sad that they don't know where to look for good deals. Got a $400 monitor for $250, and it's now on sale for $380. I'll take that all day.

[@TRIPLEDIGITS]

What happened to the last tv

[@paddleswake8372]

Shopping at Target is your first problem.

[@user-ii3vn8tn3q]

Come back after the holiday, when they have 100 in stock left over , and a new shipment ready in the back to put out on the floor. THATS when you find a real deal. When The store needs the room.

[@Koontzilla]

Smh. I was in a Target on black Friday, a guy asked if they price match Amazon. The employee said "not today". All target stuff was $5+ higher than other places. First and last time shopping at Target

[@coasternut3091]

The people saying that this has been done forever aren't randos, they're people who work in retail

[@TheWojo01]

Years ago I worked at a electronics store that has since gone bankrupt. We recieved special black Friday model TVs with slightly different model numbers to sell on black Friday. Those TVs were only worth the black Friday "deal"

[@edema.3418]

If people took their time and looked at the small print, they'd notice it was marked down from a higher price. So, the item was already on sale, but Target didn't discount it any further for Black Friday.

[@FinalStage4L]

I miss the old Black Friday days where you had to fight for that 55 inch tv at 300 bucks lol

[@salbahejim]

They should have shown the rest of the video where she holds up a price tag that doubles the price, then offers 50% off.

[@JeffereyBowman]

The only truly good deal I found was an item that was a set. 3 for the price of 1. Literally the best deal I saw the entire time. Now, whether or not the retrailer will fulfill it...

[@chemmerling]

Amazon did this with black Friday computer components. I've been tracking the price of storage and the price actually went up even though it was a "deal"

[@antant7777]

The funny thing is I always do my research on items that I want buy before black Friday

[@IamIzayis]

This has been on going for years.. went Black Friday shopping in 2014, they had a 40” tv I was eyeing for 2 weeks on sale for 449.. something low like this… my sister kept saying wait.. don’t get it yet, come Black Friday it’ll be a lot less.. I kept saying it would be the same price, it was in the ad for the Black Friday deals.. once the day finally came, we went and the tv was there on “sale” except it wasn’t that low price anymore… it was 489… so the price had gone up.. the only way to get the sales price was to get the target card 😑

[@alisong7120]

To anyone that still thinks black Friday is a thing...wow. black Friday prices has been advertised for over a month now. From working retail I will tell you it's what people want though. I use to work for a name brand outlet store that would always have out printed paper coupons at the door with a percentage off. Well that brand tried to go green and get rid of the coupons and just have everything literally marked down to that discount or even a little less but sales went down. So we went back to the paper coupons with the percentage off and prices went back up a little and people started buying again. Also it's not really false advertising if the sign was a price on Wednesday and then the line on top changed to "black Friday" on a Friday.

[@nofilter814]

That exactly why I don’t buy electronics on Black Friday i wait until after Christmas 😂😂

[@chaddlingle574]

Just like when stuff is on sale they raise the price first so you think it's expensive then it goes on sale so you think you get a deal now. This whole world runs on greed 🤑

[@kraalwig]

The sign obviously says sell it's not the original price.most places extended black Friday sales before and after Black Friday

[@cafenightster4548]

I've been watching prices for a while and they usually only drop $20 dollars or stay on sale all the time. I miss actual Black Friday deals where people fought. I was too young and broke to go back then.

[@stephanievansteen5909]

Dude I know lol I watched two ladies get into a fight one year over a bath towel lol was crazy

[@areviewer5177]

That moronic fighting is why they don't offer discounts like that anymore. Because the morons then turn around try to sue the store for liability and it cost them more money. Blame the idiots.

[@yukie_tn]

You need to price watch items if you want to find things that actually go on a good sale.

[@nervusbreakdown]

These items are not black Fridays. Most of them are what retailers call "door busters" items. They are discounted items that are only made for that day. What you see here is the store taking an item that is not part of black Friday and putting signs.

[@michaelobrien4292]

Amazon doing the same exact thing this year too, right through Cyber Monday ...

[@ricothomas9056]

I saw at Edgars once that the 50% discount was more than the actual selling price underneath the 50% sticker.

[@iriemars8125]

Didnt sales go live like a week before?

[@daveowilliamson]

I worked at ALL of the corporate GNC in Indianapolis. They did the same thing. They would make us rotate the prices every 3 weeks. Every one who spent 10 bucks on a GNC card would "save" money one week out of the month when the prices where hacked way up. They fired me because I informed people not to buy that week

[@TunTheOfficial]

I used to say it so loudly that the prices are the only changes that these clothes been here for months. That when they hit clearance it's only then a true discount. But I worked in under armor Florida. I quit after a year cause they were paying 10$ and only when the protests started they went to 15$

[@PaolaGonzalez-pn2wt]

This is not new and not a scam. Holiday deals always start early in Oct. There are doorbusters and certain coupons to get even a better price on these sale items on black friday. Tv's are at there best price in January for the super bowl. Observe prices and this will help you shop better deals.

[@antsypantsy6113]

Macy's does the same thing 🤣. Some women's cologne (Not major brand) was like $25 dollars before black friday. On black friday and cyber monday the regular price was like $166 and change with the sale price $120 something 😭.

[@sanzonegrouplvrealestate]

Um duh? Everyone knows Black Friday never has the best deals of the year. Probably also the reason “Black Friday sales” start weeks before Thanksgiving…it’s because the savings don’t actually exist. Companies have been doing this ever since e-commerce became a thing.

[@gregmadison556]

Walmart had a Black Friday sale and a lot of the items are still there as of Tuesday. This tells me it's not the same as before covid when people where rushing and grabbing things, while pushing babies out the way. I worked at Macy's years. They had towels on sale every day marked down from $35 to $19.99. Then they had 3 day sales and they had a sign that said marked down from $35 to $20. They would sell 3 times as much at $20.

[@MrAchieve2believe]

Why would any civilized society want to go back to that???

[@areviewer5177]

​@@MrAchieve2believe A civilized society wouldn't? The one we live in feels entitled to it. Big difference.

[@rodrianaderisme7534]

That’s the reasons we don’t do Black Friday anymore 🤔

[@oj5885]

Target out here thinking we don’t know they be scamming us. 😂😂

[@Arkansaswoods]

A sale is never a sale. They just want to get rid of the old stuff to make room for the new stuff.

[@stressdavis4517]

If it has been on sale that whole time, it wouldn't be a black friday deal. Wouldn't it?

[@ChrisB0423]

And now they will make it mandatory policy to remove all other promotional signs before placing any exclusive sales prices. That way in their minds what consumer doesn't know, won't hurt them. They think most retail shoppers are stupid.

[@SlamDancinMoogle]

Most are. This comment section is proof.

[@chrismiller7033]

Yeah this is going on for probably since Black Friday ever started. When I worked in retail like that our lowest prices were actually during the summer when everybody was on vacation. It's just a marketing scheme that's it. Everybody during the summer doesn't think about buying TVs or baseball bats or gloves or ProForm treadmills. Or ellipticals. They think it's the holiday when they're cheapest. So funny

[@4movieslove]

A practical approach is to buy when you need, so called deals happen all through the year. For e.g every product in Costco is on sale at least 4 times a year.

[@elecaire9094]

That's just like Kohl's where they have the lowest prices of the season 78 times a year

[@bjmorgan3092]

My mother worked at Kmart in the 70s. They use to put their crockpots in the sale paper. They were not on sale but they would sell out. In Kmart case they never said it was a sale, people thought it was on sale because it was in the sale paper. My mother said they didn't sell many crackpots when they were not in the sale paper.

[@RashaKahn]

Actually saw prices change on Amazon for specific items I was looking at, lots of small items dropping $5-10 bucks, but bought altogether there was a decent discount.

[@SundayCookingRemix]

I saw mine go up

[@geddoe316]

Even playstation did this on their store. "Black friday" deals popped up that were literally the same price that they were a month ago.

[@mackyj7801]

Did the same thing at footlocker just add in some other stuff that was selling from the store room. That's why its always best to price watch a few months before black Friday.

[@Elle3211]

The stores usually raise prices before a big sale, then sell the items at regular price the day of the sale.

[@creativeexpletives]

Not a new thing, it happens every year but I'm sure people are this stupid not to realise it. To get a deal, you keep tracking the price several months in advance and then pull the trigger on BF, only if you're really getting a deal.

[@nousername4402]

So what was targets response...?

[@12Djpedro]

Had stuff in my Amazon cart that actually increased in price on black Friday. 😢

[@DogHairDontCare]

Historically, many "deals" for black friday weren't really great in the first place. Now, they just offer them earlier to offset the annoying rush so that we don't have as many traffic jams and people trampling over each other, ironically, right after Thanksgiving. Personally, the realization that our country has been dumb over consumerism is a good thing. It's how the middle class keeps itself mid.

[@krissiet4718]

Best comment of all!!!

[@areviewer5177]

I love how this sensible comment has three likes, but all the morons crying "sCaM!!!" Have hundreds of likes. Which just perfectly goes to validate what you have stated here. Clown world we live in.

[@andrewperryman8490]

I was in target on black Friday those tvs at the location i was at was 299 . And this everyone has been advertising black friday sales all month long

[@Phaye-co4zj]

Lol the furniture store down the street been having a closing sale for 5 years now

[@roserodmen]

Cause the price under is "sale" price... so the "sale" price and "black Friday" price are the same.

[@robertboulware8260]

Really curious to know what they could possibly say that would make it ok?

[@everettd2]

If you didn’t know company’s were doing this…well there’s one born every minute

[@AllieNikol]

Tell me you've never worked in retail without telling me you've never worked in retail.. lmaoo every store does that. They just extended the deal price.

[@jamalx4743]

As a former target employer they been doing that

[@chromefin5378]

Best Buy keeps extending the Sale date. And they show the original price more than double of the Sale price. It was last year's TV model, and the original price was never that much.

[@brooklynnjones6269]

Are used to work for Toys “R” Us. They used to make us jack up the prices the month before Black Friday so when Black Friday came we would just put everything back to the normal price! So people thought they were getting a good deal 😢

[@Warphoenix22]

Stores change signage all the time, way to go detectives! 😂😂

[@BreeBrog]

I was a manager at old navy for six years... we did the same every year, they just add a few more items to the sales and claim is a Black Friday sale but actually are they added was five items and one doorbuster but also I can say this I was a manager at Altar for 3 years and they did the complete opposite

[@rayluo4665]

What do you mean by "opposite"?

[@BreeBrog]

@@rayluo4665 ulta would put stuff on sale for the whole week before Black Friday and we would get our stock for Black Friday sales like 2 weeks earlier and just keep it in the back and then on Black Friday we would have a ton of stuff on sale we will also have the normal sell items but at least 15 to 25 items that was just added for Black Friday

[@Hiro39367]

I guarantee you target will stop keeping old price signs behind the new ones now.

[@joeschmoe5231]

Fr

[@aliasiskey4434]

It was obvious with savings of only $50. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@CA-gk3cf]

You are not forced to buy it.

[@shawnjones2928]

They price is the same. Then a few months before they jack it up then the holiday sales come around and they go back the regular price, but says it's a sale.

[@TitusB226]

Grocery stores do it too. They have a everyday price that has margins way higher than normal, then the "sale" price is their normal margin price.

[@Brizzi414]

I peeped this too everywhere. I noticed the price change was less than $5 on most items if that. They think they’re slick but it’s obvious we all notice the math ain’t mathing. Hopefully price sales stats drop far enough for stores to see that we’re catching on.

[@bradleywilk6881]

I have worked at target. The sales signs begind the black friday deals are for the day after black friday in case of any of that same product in stock. Its easier for the floor managers to just take the sign off and provides more time in other areas of the store. I cant speak for other stores though but think smarter not harder!

[@anthonysullivan4311]

WalMart does the same thing. Looks at the prices on their BF items a month or two after, same prices.

[@Stressed2Capacity]

We waited until Black Friday thinking we would find a great deal on a new mattress somewhere. We had been pricing them at different places. On Black Friday the prices went up on every place we checked. We couldn't believe it! Lesson learned.

[@amazincrackmonkey7176]

Presidents day for some reason is the cheapest time to buy a bed.

[@Stressed2Capacity]

@@amazincrackmonkey7176 , thanks for the tip!

[@number1yota]

Having worked for several "box stores" they all do this, or the other tactic is to slowly make items up during the year so it and then mark it down to Black Friday at the original price.