Most box store items are designed specifically for the BF sales, and are not available at any other time and will never be made again. They are made to the price point target, or well below, depending on the box store and what 5 months of polls and studies have told them to do.
In general, the items made for BF sales are manufactured in China. Very little of it is a value, in that it is a necessity of life, or in that it is actually a quality item discounted an extreme amount. It is aimed at the season of shopping because shopping.
For those reasons, I have long viewed black friday as the single largest export of American citizen's US dollars to China of the entire year.
The events that happened in the past, people's behaviors toward their fellow man- over the most useless junk they don't need makes my stomach turn. Imagine those people that were trampled because they had to be the first person in the store to buy a purpose built minimally viable product available that day, and the people behind them so crazed over the same minimally viable product they were willing to walk on their neighbors to get it.
No thanks.
On the rare occasion something actually normal is on sale at a discount, I may make an effort. This historically has NEVER been at a national chain store/box store and has been exclusivly something advertised in the local shoppers/coupon paper or at a store front sign on main street. The paper with all the ads for the day was routinely passed around on Thursday as something for the extended family to all laugh and chat about. So at least it served a purpose there.
