To me, it seems so. It used to be something i looked forward to: seeing the sales from the big three (Walmart, Target and Best Buy) - with Amazon price matching some deals. Then setting up plans on what to get (and where). Now, it's more like why bother.
Some of this is sales spread out from October to beyond Black Friday (making the Black Friday sales meaningless or redundant). It could be that this year/decade/century/millennium absolutely suck. Most of it is sales of uninteresting items. Maybe some of that can be blamed on persistent inflation. Some of it is the bias towards internet sales.
Sales prices are not that good. They don't have many Blu-Rays/DVD (one of my big Black Friday purchases). The ones they have aren't hitting the sub $10 price point much. Seems the "best sale" is buy 2 get 1 free type. Video games aren't really worth buying anymore. i was hoping for decent sales on Game Pass - denied. Wouldn't have minded some good deals on LEGOs or MEGA Bloks 14+ sets.
It's amazing how many items on my Amazon wish list have increased in price (even many of the items "on sale") in the last few days.
Though to be fair, Black Friday doesn't hold the place that looking through the Montgomery Ward catalog did when i was growing up. Back in simpler times before scalpers for "hot" items.
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