The following report is by The New York Post:
DeJay Downey posted a viral video on TikTok showing her browsing for products at an unidentified Target only to discover that the price tags for Black Friday displayed the same price as those for non-Black Friday deals.
Downey was in the electronics section looking at prices for television sets when she reached her hand for the display showing the prices.
The piece of paper displaying the Black Friday price of $649.99 was the same as the non-Black Friday prices, which was concealed behind the “updated” sales price, according to the video.
“It’s the same, I don’t get it,” she said in the video. “I’m confused.”
Downey noticed that the sales price remained unchanged for several other items.
As of Monday, the video has been viewed more than 38.4 million times. It has generated nearly 60,000 comments and 3.3 million likes.
A spokesperson for Target told The Post that the TVs “were on sale before Black Friday as part of our early Black Friday sales.”
“We continued to offer those items at the same discount during Black Friday, but updated the signage to reflect the extended timing,” the Target spokesperson told The Post.
The company said that “in both instances” shoppers would have saved “between $20-$80 depending on which TV they purchased.”
“Those discounted prices compared to the regular prices are clearly shown in both sale signs in the video,” the Target spokesperson told The Post.
Commenters on TikTok reacted to Downey’s post with their own experiences.
“I found one where the regular price was lower then black Friday deal,” TikTok user Brandon Saunders chimed in.
Another TikTok user commented: “Far too many of us have worked retail for us to not check these.”
“Black Friday deals used to be SO GOOD,” Kirsten Elizabeth wrote on TikTok.
“Now I don’t even bother. Even online they raise the price, to ‘drop it’.”
A TikTok user who goes by the name “Sharlene” wrote: “This is why I stayed in bed relaxing!”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.
Proverbs 20:14
This situation is perfectly summarized by our proverb. The plot twist here is that Target is most certainly not the only doing this, as Black Friday, Cyber Monday, President’s Day, layaway sales, etc., are routinely like this. These companies like Target get their merch for cheap, then they jack up the price, and then seduce the covetous and idolators to buy their junk with a fake deal. They made out while the buyer struts away thinking they just got a deal. Quite the contrary: you just got bamboozled!
While not all Black Friday “deals” and other blockbuster discount shopping holidays are as egregious as this example, most Americans in their haste and lust for worthless junk are ignorant to the fact that this is more common than they realize.
There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
Proverbs 21:20
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Black Friday, a day that hypocritically follows a day that was originally meant as a special feast to give thanks to the Lord (Thanksgiving) now it’s been mutilated into a wicked Americanized holiday of gluttony, drunkenness, and watching a bunch of pampered burly millionaires throw a football, they say some fake and not genuine and shallow “prayer” before they chow down.
After a night of their turkey tryptophan induced comas, they used to gather around every Walmart, Target, and shopping mall like an army of ants over a discarded ice cream cone, and they’d wreak havoc and cause violence LITERALLY causing injury and even death for a TV, an Xbox, a tickle-me Elmo, or the latest Call of Duty or Grand Theft Auto, greed and covetousness at its worst!
Now since the so-called pandemic, Black Friday is reduced to a trickle, and while lots of people still go out, they come in more slowly.
This is how black friday works;
“we mark it up, so we can mark it down, to save you money”
Nothing but greedy crooks
Well poor Target, run by homosexuals, is trying to save their BILLIONS and collect even more from us unsuspecting merchants. Nothing is as it used to be. The almighty dollar is more important in this world that the ALMIGHTY GOD. Let’s go HOME this year, folks. Don’t give up on this year until midnight 12/31/23.
It would be great to be in the catching up soon, Char.
I’m so grieved and so vexed by this world and my flesh. I’m so angered and saddened as well as fed up by all the evil and heartless heathens who plague this planet.
I’m sick of America and that all along, I was being patriotic to arguably the most evil nation on earth.
The worst thing is that my mom is not saved and a pastor in the pentecostal cult and how I was so led astray. Of all the daughters of the Vatican, the pentecostal daughter is the biggest harlot. I tell ya, the Pentecostal daughter is having a mother daughter competition with her Roman Catholic mother!
So far (NOT BRAGGING, just recapping on what I’ve been doing and done so far)
I helped guide and lead a boy who I consider my brother and nephew in Christ named Marco to the King James Bible and referred him to brother Bryan and I believe he is truly saved
I’ve laid gospel tracts
I repent of my sins
I defend and fear as well as proclaim the King James Bible as God’s true word.
I want to be caught up.
I think that will get me some rewards in Heaven…I hope.
My oh my how the wicked conjure up lies.
But no need for me to get worked up about them and their lies when i sit and read their future, I smile and look up saying “Thank you God for being just and righteous alway”
I hope a godly man posts Rev21:8 KJV on that companies social media comments and warns them because i know they have never read God’s word. Had they, they would tremble is fear.
Revelation 21:8
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
King James Version (KJV)