This is so silly. I keep hearing about all of these businesses having a "President's Day Sale". What's the big deal? So you're having a sale. It has nothing to do with President's day! "oh yeah, I save up all my money to buy all this awesome stuff because you can only get it on special when it's President's day!". Car dealerships are doing it - I kinda understand this a little bit more because hey, what else do you have to do on your day off other than go into a car dealer and buy something that will need to be washed within 5 minutes of driving it off the lot. The thing that kinda made me go into this rant and rave mode is that I received an email from Tiger Direct pushing their President's Day Blowout Sale. These guys have "blowout" sales all the time, why do they feel the need to attach the holiday name to it?
Businesses. ugh. makes me almost wish I didn't run one of my own and wasn't always trying to hawk my own stuff lol. (oh btw, great deals for Paper or Plastic Sports.com President's Day Sale!!! lol, give me a break).
Christmas is in the rear view mirror. Most folks are low on cash and its Winter and nobody is going out. Retail is always in the toilet this time of year. The retailers need to pry people out of their cacoons and into the stores to get rid of inventory that has been sitting around for a long time. Hence, President's Day sales.
You want cabin fever rant?! What's up with having an effing President's Day in the first place? Because Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton are equally deserving of a special holiday as Abraham Lincoln and George Washington? You overcame the insurmountable odds of defeating what was then the world's greatest super power in order to make possible this great experiment in democracy. You get a holiday in your honor. But now we're going to make you share it with this dude who overcame the insurmountable odds of getting a blow job from an intern with his wife just down the hall, perjured himself in a federal lawsuit and got impeached for it.
On top of that, why do we have to have all these stupid made up holidays in the dead of winter? It's bad enough that even though I have a lame government job, I can never take these stupid holidays off, because no one does my work when I'm not there. But if I am a day ahead in my work at the jay oh bee, there's a foot of snow on the ground and I don't ski!
Businesses have President's Day sales because a lot of people are off work. If people weren't off work and able to go shopping, then it wouldn't be a holiday in the eyes of the commerce driven world.
Quote from: tacimala on February 16, 2008, 12:30:07 AM
Businesses have President's Day sales because a lot of people are off work. If people weren't off work and able to go shopping, then it wouldn't be a holiday in the eyes of the commerce driven world.
This is exactly right. I'm not sure when it happened but the national pass time is no longer baseball...It's shopping. doesn't make a lick of sense to me, but if people don't have to go to work or school, their #1 choice of activities is shopping. So, how do you attract all those shoppers? Have a sale. God I wish people would find another hobby.
just call it the "hey you have a day off why don't you come out and buy something" sale.