I get it that this is a very important season for retailers. However, I think that it has reached some sort of the theoretical maximum carnage. I started getting Black Friday emails two weeks ago and not all of them were from retailers. Village inn sent me a Black Friday pie sale and I also got an email for half off signing up for running races. I get Amazon, even Harbor Freight (I am addicted to Harbor Freight) what I don’t need is a Cyber Monday sale on soap.
The best was the Cards against humanity maker had a Black Friday deal, spend five dollars on nothing! It was a button on their web page to spend five dollars and get nothing, apparently they made $71,000. This makes me laugh if you gave that to a charity tomorrow on giving Tuesday it would make a huge difference in the lives of needy people. Instead, we would rather just give it to nothing, as long as that nothing is on sale!