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    Where are all the ads?

    in 2021

    Posted

    If anyone is a member of all those various walmart/target facebook groups, keep an eye on them this week in case we get more old school newspaper ad leaks.

     

    And if it does, PM me immediately so we can get it posted :)

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    Official 2021 Black Friday T-Shirt Status Update Thread

    in 2021

    Posted

    I have a few shirts left, mostly XL but a few other sizes available.

     

    If anyone wants to buy some, they are $10 or $9 each if you buy more than one. Free shipping.

     

    With the postal service there is no guarantee they'll arrive by Thanksgiving. Send me a message on here if interested.

     

    Any remaining shirts will be saved for the next "leftover merch" giveaway in a few years :)

    Potential Hoodie Color Poll for Next Year

    in 2021

    Posted

    Thanks everyone for your help.

     

    I tallied everything up and there is an legit tie between Charcoal and Navy (both in the number of people who have them as their first choice AND as either of their first 2 choices) so I'll have to be the tie breaker.

     

    Guess you'll find out what I picked next year :)

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    Is Black Friday as we knew it gone?

    in 2021

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    You can see this happening with the retail workers demanding the store remain closed on Thanksgiving and the store saying they will be closed on Thanksgiving.

    Exactly. At the very least, this transition served to end the practice of major stores being open on Thanksgiving Day which the majority here agree is a good thing.

     

    Another thing that has changed is free shipping. We used to see a lot of big retailers (Best Buy, Target, etc.) with free shipping on all orders this time of year. But now with store pickup and curbside delivery being used much more widely, stores tend to push that as an option for those who don't want to pay for shipping.

     

    Kohl's for example used to have free shipping on $25 or $50 this time of year but they haven't budged from their $75 minimum in years. With shipping and freight costs much higher, they can't make a profit shipping a $7 item for free.

     

    Once supply chains and the pandemic are more under control, which could happen as soon as BF 2022, I think retailers will want to have their cake and eat it too. They'll still have big sales all November like they do now but they'll want to reclaim that huge spike of in-store sales revenue that Black Friday would always bring them, so they'll hopefully give shoppers a reason to show up bright and early on Friday morning. While online sales have skyrocketed, they are still a small piece of the pie compared to in-store sales.

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    Is Black Friday as we knew it gone?

    in 2021

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    COVID allowed retailers to extend the holiday shopping season from a month (BF to Christmas) to nearly 2 months long and to extend Black Friday from one or two days to anywhere from a week to an entire month. They won't want to give that back.

     

    For many years stores would advertise "early Black Friday sales" in early November but they were never anything exciting and we never even bothered posting 95% of them on the site because they'd just be using the term "Black Friday" to trick people into thinking the deals were good.

     

    But last year they were able to say "hey, these early sales are legit now - they are our actual BF sale split up over multiple weeks" and it has made these early sales much more interesting for us to follow as there way more actual deals in them than there used to be.

     

    I think the best we can hope for is that these various sales continue throughout November but they save some big doorbusters for Black Friday to get people in the stores again once supply chains catch up and COVID (hopefully) becomes less of a concern.

     

    And remember - you can still treat BF as the way it used to be - many stores are opening up at 5am - you can still shop all day and night if you want. You just won't have to because the deals will have been available previously in store and online.

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    Official 2021 Black Friday T-Shirt Status Update Thread

    in 2021

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    Update: shirts are (finally) being delivered to me from the printer today.

     

    Best case scenario they will be on their way to you tomorrow, otherwise over the weekend for sure.

     

    Hopefully nearly 3 weeks is enough time for the USPS to get them to you in time for BF, but knowing the USPS, anything can happen.

     

    Note that if you both bought AND won shirts, they will arrive together in the same package.

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