Shopping Strategy For Black Friday

How To Strategically Attack Black Friday Sales

Posted by: Lily Q Filed in: style
5:00PM, Thursday November 26th 2009

It seems a rather cruel joke that Black Friday, one of the most aggressive shopping days of the year, comes the day after Thanksgiving, one of the most aggressive eating days of the year. So start mentally preparing yourself now to nurse that food hangover and shop like a pro. We’ve got a few tips to help you make the strategic most of the sales before your competition snaps up that dress you wanted.

Decide what you ~~want~~ need both for yourself and as Christmas gifts. Keep your list in mind and don’t deviate from it in a heat of the moment frenzy.
Wear easy in, easy out clothes, especially if you’re hitting up a multi-level store. Ballet flats, leggings, a tee and a trench are my mad woman shopping outfit of choice. Then, if need be, you can even throw things on over your clothes.
Unless shoes and accessories aren’t on your mind, start there as those items tend to disappear fastest. We spend a while trying and re-trying dresses to see if they look good on our asses, but shoes fit or don’t. Same with bags. Thus, they’re in the most danger of disappearing quickly.
If you like it, take you with it like the greedy little hoarder that you are. Most stores don’t have a policy forbidding you from taking merchandise from one floor to another. Take advantage of that to give yourself more time for decision making.
Know the return policy. Let’s face it, even if you do step 1 and make a diligent little list, Louboutins at 40% off are going to reel you in. You won’t realize until you get home that 1) they’re still way expensive and b) you were label blinded to the point where you didn’t realize that pink sparkly pumps totally aren’t what you need. Return!

Good luck out there, ladies.

comments

Kelseyyy
wrote on November 26 2009 @ 05:20 pm: [report]

I’m too claustrophobic to go shopping on Black Friday..

Lanai
wrote on November 26 2009 @ 06:34 pm: [report]

Down with Black Friday!

impoddity
wrote on November 26 2009 @ 08:34 pm: [report]

I just want to see the frenzied masses. I could write a research paper on it. “Anthropology and Shopping” Hmm….

Isabela Laval
wrote on November 26 2009 @ 10:08 pm: [report]

@ impoddity

Totally unrelated, but is that a picture of your dog? It’s the cutest picture ever and just made me smile!

draymond
wrote on November 26 2009 @ 10:24 pm: [report]

When shopping in a store that you expect to have a long checkout line, like an electronics store, use the checkout buddy system. One of you immediately gets into the checkout line while the other goes grabs the stuff on the list. If necessary trade places if there is something the one in line needs to see in person first.

River
wrote on November 26 2009 @ 11:36 pm: [report]

Here are my tips (as a store manager at one of those stores in the mall): Bring a bottle of water, some wrapped hard candies/gum, and hand moisturizer/hand sanitizer- and most of all, a sense of humor. It will be crazy and the people at the checkout will be trying to get through people as quickly as they can; it will make your day (and theirs!) much brighter if you give them a smile and some encouragement. If you have a short chat, you know that they’ll be making sure those awesome holiday sales go through correctly as opposed to counting down the customers until they get to clock out.