Black Friday

Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of November's 4th week is thanksgivings holiday.
In US, families gather up during the thanksgivings, and enjoy turkey dinner together.
Because I'm not 100% americanized, I tend to do something other than what most of typical American families do during thanksgivings.

Black Friday is on Friday of thanksgivings week. It offers the biggest discount sale during the year from most of retailers. In terms of accounting and finance, the color of black represents profitability, while red represents loss. Because a lot of people purchases items from various stores, the stores tends to make profit particularly during this day. That is why it's called 'Black Friday.'

During Black Friday, lots of electronic items go on sale. I believe Bestbuy, one of leading electronic retailer, offers biggest discount for their customers. This year, they offered one of Sony laptop for $400 (regular price $850). Also, they offered desktop system with monitor and color printer for $199 (about 18,000 yen).

Black Friday sounds very tempting deal do customers. However, there is one downside to it.

























About 500 people waits for the Bestbuy. The thing is that the store carries only about 20 of computers and laptops with +50% discount. To be one of 20 people in line, for this year, you have to wait in line for 15 hours outside (from 2PM to 5AM). To make things even worse, the temperature was below freezing point.

Getting in is one thing. Getting out is another beauty about Black Friday.














Because people buys so much, it takes very long time for cashers to process transaction.
It takes about 2 hours to check out.
although it may look hectic to wait in line, it can save lots of money for you.
Let me summarize this post in Japanese.

-Thanksgivingの金曜日にはBlack Fridayと言うバーゲンセイルがあります。
-Black Fridayは普通のバーゲンセイルとは違って、一年中一回しかありません。
-Black Fridayで売れる商品は５０％以上安いです。
-でも、あまり少ないせいで長く列に待たなければいけません。