Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday

Why does this surprise you? The amount of celebrations (reasons to have sales) have increased throughout the years. If you got sales regularly people will wait till stuff's on sale. Now they gotta wait less long. It might seem silly, but the whole trick is to get people to buy things they'd otherwise not buy.

Re: Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday

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Post by cybertronic » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 2:09 PM UTC

pouetpouet wrote: post #2

Black friday is a thing in Italy??

Yes, but sadly, not Thanksgiving

Re: Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday

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Post by Symbiote » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 2:09 PM UTC

pouetpouet wrote: post #2

Black friday is a thing in Italy??

The American retailers have been busy promoting it, leaving the European competition little choice but to join in.

Few people realise it's related to American thanksgiving.

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Post by kristoff_it » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 2:10 PM UTC

pouetpouet wrote: post #2

Black friday is a thing in Italy??

Discounts are a thing, black friday not that much honestly. We have other periods with discounts that are famous. I believe black friday is only a thing in italy with regard to amazon and maybe some other online shop, and we definitely don't have people stomping on each other in front of malls at opening hours.

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Post by forinti » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 2:14 PM UTC

pouetpouet wrote: post #2

Black friday is a thing in Italy??

It's become a thing in Brazil recently. Halloween has also become unavoidable. I find this strange, because most people couldn't give you the time of day in english.