Editorial: Black Friday not a bargain

From The Lookout Staff

Americans are not flooding to seek Black Friday deals like they used to because there are no longer any significant deals worth buying into.

Stores offer little to no discounts during the holiday season. Recent shoppers have been seen exposing the same prices under those red tagged signs. Americans looking to save are not so easily fooled. They now wait for promotional deals throughout the year instead.

Retailers are found to inflate many product prices to take advantage of frantic Black Friday shoppers, and Cyber Monday is equally as dishonest.

Price previews on apps and store sites are distorted to appear as if they are offering a more proportionate percentage off, as they would during regular promotional sales.

From an economic perspective, it is good business. Product supply and demand increases before the gift-giving season.

With steadily increasing inflation within the U.S., businesses online and in-store perform a distraction of big red prices and percentages, causing anxious Americans to oblige out of perceived necessity.

Fortunately, there are ways for patrons to get the best deals out of their favorite stores and save a few bucks this season. Check out some of those ways at www.havenlife.com/blog/best-price-tracking-apps/