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Na, I'm poor, and I'm not going to feel bad for getting some bulk household essentials at a significant discount today.
I get not wanting to participate in unnecessary consumption, but this classist view that everyone can afford to ignore big discounts on items they actually need (which definitely do exist among the other noise) is just another high horse people need to get off of and instead focus their energy fighting the system that leaves people desperate for discounts in the first place, not on telling those people off.
Are essential items on sale? I didn't look around much but most things truly on sale are garbage electronics.
I really don't think they're talking about essentials. Although around here I'm not seeing any deals on things like toilet paper, baby formula or anything like that.
If anything, the classism that happens is the manipulation of folks who think they'll get a TV on sale when it's usually too low on stock and it's only used as a lure to get folks in the door. The better deals tend to come after the holidays, too.
Probably because they're consumables and you can't use them for life
OP: Today is buy nothing day
Fighting classism with classism is just more classism.
Imma classism all over the place
The Rich: "Hey, we're massively discounting our products today!"
You Apparently: "We're not going to buy them at their low prices! We'll wait until they put them back to normal."
I'll be the one to ask then. What is this accomplishing? Short term we don't get the discounts and long term they just recoup the profits in the coming days. If you have poor impulse control, yes, stay home but otherwise I'm just lost.
Same here, I've put off luxuries and other big purchases for 6 months or more in a queue-like spreadsheet. For example, I still post using a 6 year old phone and have been waiting for enough free savings and a discount to buy. I wait patiently and avoid consumption until opportune points like these.
I shopped at a memory express today and it wasn't busy at all.