Black Friday is behind us and I hope you all have survived it! If you want to know how does Black Friday look like in Southeastern Europe or more specific Balkan area, keep reading!
Hello, my dear readers and welcome to the new post whose topic will be: “How does Black Friday look like in Southeastern Europe ?” and I really hope this will be interesting to you! Black Friday became some sort of a holiday all around the world, including the area I will talk about. I am from Bosnia and Herzegovina and I have seen the interest for Black Friday increase so much over the past few years. Entering malls all around my country was stressful and something I didn’t expect to see this Friday, knowing that our stores aren’t usually ‘celebrating’ this ‘holiday’ the way American stores do. I skipped this year’s Black Friday shopping because I couldn’t stand the crowds and lack of air in stores with so many people. It was a view I have never seen before! I literally stepped in there and went back in few minutes disappointed.
Why was I disappointed?
Black Friday isn’t something that retailers here, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, respect at all. I’ve realized they (or most of them) play it really wise. They only put discounts on products which are left from season before and probably couldn’t be sold for their original price. Winter clothes usually get their prices increased day before Black Friday and then decreased on Black Friday- wise way to fool people. Discounts are really small, most stores have only 20% off offers- not something that would make me stay in the line for an hour to buy it. When I watch videos of American YouTubers who usually publish Black Friday hauls on their channel, I notice they get so much better offers than we do. Stores offer them from 50 to 70 percent off without fooling them and writing the wrong original price, which is really great. If I was an American, I would’ve probably done a huge damage in my wallet this Black Friday. Also, I notice the offers in America and other parts of Europe are like ‘buy one, get one free’ while, in my country, they only offer you to buy three and get one free. Our Black Friday has nothing to do with American and more economically developed countries’ Black Friday.
It’s all in our brains. Black Friday is psychological and marketing trick.
When you see an item is sold at half price, you measure its worth in it’s original price and think you are getting more quality than you actually paid for. Is that true? No. At least, in Southeastern Europe countries whose retailers are trying to use Black Friday to deceive people. And people fall for it. It’s working.
But, my country still has some positive examples…
If you know anything about Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and other countries in this area, you probably know these countries have a lot of poor people, homeless and hungry people. One store, in these countries, turned Black Friday into Giving Friday with message: #givingisthenewblack and decide to donate 5% of their total income for soup kitchens all over mentioned countries. I love this and I was so happy because someone remembered to think about people who need to be thought of. Food for hungry people is way more important than getting your closet full of items that we would probably get in full price but with mark of ‘50% off’.
And how does Black Friday look like your country? Are you facing any scams like these?
Write me down below! I’d love to hear what you think about this topic and how Black Friday looks like in your country. Thank you so much for reading and visiting this post! I appreciate your presence here. Love you all and talk to you really soon!
xoxo
Bye, V
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Black Friday popusti stidljivo dolaze i u Srbiju zadnjih godina, ali su presmešni i čist marketing. I kod nas je dm drogerija dala saopštenje da neće biti 15% popusta na sve, kao što obično daju, već da će 5% prodaje tog dana otići jednoj instituciji za nezbrinutu ili bolesnu decu. U prvi mah se i meni činilo kao nešto humano i lepo, ali onda sam bolje razmislila i shvatila da oni žele da budu humani na naš račun i to samo 5% a do sada su uvek davali 15. Oni se tu ne odriču ničega a žele Black Friday gužvu i povećan promet da bi dali 5% naših para, što je stvarno smešno, i oni ispali jedini humani od svih prodavnica! Ne znam kako su prošli, ali ja nisam otišla tamo, nego u Lilly gde su davali -15% na sve parfeme, i na već snižene, pa sam se nešto malo počastila jer je ionako kraj meseca a ja utanjila sa parama 😀 . U svakom slučaju, BF popusti su prilika da se nešto kupi sa velikim popustom, a humani možemo biti cele godine i ja nemam problem da dm drogerija od bilo koje moje kupovine, bilo kog dana u godina, donira nekoj ustanovi tih 5 %. Kad je Black Friday, neka bude Black Friday a ne bi bilo loše i da budu popusti kao u Americi, pa da nam svima bude lepo, a ne samo marketinški trik i jedva 20% uštede.
Evo sada idu ponude za Cyber Mondey, ali su iste, ako ne i gore nego za Black Friday 😀
Slažem se da je marketinški trik ovo sa DM-om ali opet je nešto, ‘ajmo reći, pozitivno i vrijedno pomena. U BiH su skupili mnogo za narodne kuhinje i bilo mi je baš drago zbog toga, pa koliko god da je- nekome je od pomoći. Da je svaka prodavnica ispala tako ‘humana’ zamisli koliko bi se samo novca skupilo od tih njihovih 5%! To bi bile ogromne svote novca. Hvala ti puno na komentaru! ❤❤
Predivan post i jako mi se dopada kako si sve ispisala. ljubac
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Hvala ti puno! ❤
Slažem se s gore napisanim, nažalost često tako trgovci navuki, dignu cijenu dan prije neke akcije, čak ni ne mora biti BF.
U trgovačke centre mi ne pada na pamet ići kad znam da će biti tako ogromne gužve, živio on line shopping. 😀
Hvala ti mnogo. Slažem se!❤
Such a nice post!
Xoxo.
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Thanks dear!
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I am just like you completely disappointed in such a concept since stocks are usually simply on paper and do not provide any profitable offers.