more about “Black Friday Discounts“, posted with vodpod
This year’s Black Friday discounts and sales were touted to be spectacular. So anxious was one mob at the Long Island Walmart that they trampeled a worker to death. If you haven’t already heard or read the story, you can read it here. For this slideshow, I opted to locate not only the mist discounted items but also sales that weren’t commonplace. For instance, perhpas more startling than the $5.99 Valentino shorts I spotted at Century 21 that originally was priced at $150, was seeing rampant discounts on wedding dresses and diamonds. All wedding gowns at Macy’s the weekend of Black Friday were slashed 15 percent. At Zales, diamonds that were larger than 1 carat were discounted 20 percent. Seeing such rampant discounts dulled the luster of these diamonds. They didn’t appear rare or one-of-a-kind anymore, in accordance to their marketing. It was a similar feeling when I saw a big SALE sign plastered on Jimmy Choo’s window. But some luxury brands did hold out. Louis Vuitton offered no discounts on their leather goods.
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