A pretty bleak Black Friday – NBC4 Washington
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 27, 2023
The numbers are in, and Black Friday was kind of a dud this year. It was definitely a dud for the whole "let's-go-storm-Walmart-for-a-$200-50-inch-TV" type of thing. In-store sales were up just 1.1% from a year ago. And that's nominal. So after inflation--call it 3.2% based on the latest CPI--"real" sales actually fell by 2.1%.
I happened to be in Target on Saturday morning, because I needed to buy a couple of family table games (Bingo, etc . . .
