Black Friday: no gain without pain
Just do us one favour: if you score big, please don’t go on and on about it.
A crowd gathers on Black Friday at the Checkers store in the Mall of Africa in Midrand on 24 November 2017. The annual shopping event saw the malls thronged with shoppers looking for goods during the sale. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
As the hours, minutes and seconds count down to Black Friday, many of you are steeling yourselves – as did the soldiers of old – to go into the battle.
You will be armed with cash, credit and debit cards and protected (perhaps) by padded shoulders because it can get brutally physical in the breakneck charge for HD TVs.
Some of you will be camping outside the doors of major retail chains at midnight tonight, knowing they will open then – and that you won’t have to bunk work tomorrow to secure your bargains. Some of you will, no doubt, leave it a bit late and be swept along by the crowd-tsunamis.
At the end, there will be disappointment. Some good value items will be long gone by the time you reach the counter. Others will have been dodgily priced up a few days previously, to make the “saving” look all the more impressive.
Yet, as they say, there is no gain without pain. And there will be some stupendous deals to be had out there. Your savings could enable you to buy a few extra Christmas presents.
Just do us one favour: if you score big, please don’t go on and on about it.
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