▶️ Criticism: Why is Black Friday business and economic nonsense?
Promoting overconsumption: Black Friday encourages customers to make ill-considered purchases and increases throwaway consumption. | Environmental impact: The discount battle leads to massive consumption of resources and increasing waste production. | Profit margins are falling: Retailers often offer rock-bottom prices, which drastically reduce their margins. | Shipping chaos: Online orders are exploding and putting a strain on logistics companies and their employees. | Dissatisfied customers: Overloaded systems and delayed delivery times regularly cause frustration. | Returns madness: As purchases increase, so do returns, which cause immense costs and environmental problems. | Burden on small retailers: Small and medium-sized companies can hardly keep up with the discount battles. | | Price trickery: Many discounts are misleading because prices were often artificially increased beforehand. | | Short-term gains, long-term damage: the focus on bargains can distract customers from long-term loyalty to brands. | Lack of sustainability: Black Friday contradicts modern values such as environmental awareness and fair business practices. [...]
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