Experiencing BLACK FRIDAY in the USA! | Feli from Germany
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Күн бұрынCome Black Friday Shopping with Ben and me and find out if Black Friday is still as crazy as it used to be! 🤔
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0:00 Let's go Black Friday shopping!
2:24 Kenwood Mall
9:26 Starbucks break
10:43 Best Buy
12:17 Home Depot
13:49 Walmart
15:13 Final verdict
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ABOUT ME: Hallo, Servus, and welcome to my channel! My name is Felicia (Feli), I'm 29, and I'm a German living in the USA! I was born and raised in Munich, Germany but have been living in Cincinnati, Ohio off and on since 2016. I first came here for an exchange semester during my undergrad at LMU Munich, then I returned for an internship, and then I got my master's degree in Cincinnati. I was lucky enough to win the Green Card lottery and have been a permanent resident since 2019! In my videos, I talk about cultural differences between America and Germany, things I like and dislike about living here, and other topics I come across in my everyday life in the States. Let me know what YOU would like to hear about in the comments below. DANKE :)
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@edwardhaynes8857 5 ай бұрын
Black Friday is actually a business concept: it marked the first profitable day of the year for a lot of retail businesses. It was in the black as opposed to operating in the red...
@FelifromGermany 5 ай бұрын
Most sources say that that's actually the myth www.history.com/news/black-friday-thanksgiving-origins-history
@DENVEROUTDOORMAN 5 ай бұрын
@FelifromGermany yeah it's because People were so stressed out...they had to smoke weed and sit under black light posters to recover
@tru3sk1ll 5 ай бұрын
I always thought it was Black Friday because shoppers got up before sunrise to stand in lines
@BrianJuntunen 5 ай бұрын
I agree. It's the most profitable day for retailers. All the other explanations are fake news.
@BrianJuntunen 5 ай бұрын
That's fake news@@FelifromGermany
@craigcraigster4999 5 ай бұрын
Riding shotgun while sipping Starbucks -- you're officially 51% American now Feli. 😄 Would love to see more of these a-day-in-the-life videos with you and Ben, it's a nice change of pace for your channel. And I hope you guys found a good deal on a table saw during Cyber Monday sales. 🎅
@bobthebikerny 5 ай бұрын
The lack of Thanksgiving Day sales was due to the constant push back from employees and shoppers to give people a day to spend a day with their families. Thanksgiving is the biggest holiday of the year.
@garyshan7239 5 ай бұрын
True but it only happened because so much was getting bought online plus now Black Friday pricing happens well before BF
@pulykamell 5 ай бұрын
@@garyshan7239 Even better, last week (Thanksgiving week), I heard an ad for a Black Friday sale that was ending on Wednesday before Thanksgiving! WTF?
@garyshan7239 5 ай бұрын
hey they had to get ready for their Cyber Monday sale I guess@@pulykamell
@orangeguy3314 5 ай бұрын
Sorry, just about all companies shut down for thanksgiving day and Christmas. It's like a ghost town across america on thanksgiving day and Christmas day in america. Don't let anyone try and tell you anything else. These discount sales will continue until the first week in january. P. S. Christmas is the biggest holiday in america and not thanksgiving.
@bishop51807 5 ай бұрын
@@orangeguy3314 where do you get your numbers on what's the biggest holiday?
@richardtodd6843 5 ай бұрын
Huge Black Friday near-riots used to happen in some big cities, but I never heard of one around Cincinnati. The Thursday night Black Friday sales started dying out before CoVid, because employees didn't like them, and supervisors probably disliked them even more. Members of the public started complaining about over-commercialism, and I suspect stores were just diverting some of their weekend business to Thursday, and paying lots of money to their employees to do so. Some stores started advertising that they were letting their employees stay at home for the thanksgiving holiday. Retail wages have gone up a lot in the last couple of years, so it's no surprise Thursday sales haven't come back.
@nooneatall8072 5 ай бұрын
Don't forget that online shopping had started impacting local stores by that time. Cyber Monday had become a big thing by then. Why go fight the crowds and the craziness when you can simply stay at home, order online, and enjoy your favorite libation. And watch some football.
@akillercat64 5 ай бұрын
As someone who worked at Walmart peak black Friday 2016-2021, yeah it was a madhouse. Before the pandemic black Friday would start 6pm on Thanksgiving day and run thru the weekend till cyber Monday. Have to hire security those days and watch out for stampedes. Covid definitely changed how people reacted to black Friday because a lot of stores open at 6am instead of midnight now. So yes, busy, but not as chaotic as prepandemic but I think online shopping has a big impact as well. Glad you were able to get some experience of the chaos 😅
@FelifromGermany 5 ай бұрын
In our area, many stores didn't even open until 8am or 9am this year 🤷♀️
@divebomb99 5 ай бұрын
Glad to read that. We're losing (or already lost) our humanity to materialism. Frohe Weihnachten. @@FelifromGermany
@epicfoodzone1581 4 ай бұрын
What is cyber Monday ?...... 🙄
@alastairthegreat2887 4 ай бұрын
@@epicfoodzone1581The sales on online platforms like Amazon on the Monday after Black Friday. Consumerism waits for no one.
@Janet.D.C. 5 ай бұрын
It used to be much worse before people started shopping online. It was madness! People started lining up outside stores after midnight. Pushing and shoving sometimes. I remember taking my small-town Grandma to a Hallmark store on Black Friday (30+ years ago). The store was packed with women grabbing Christmas ornaments. My grandma was pressed against the wall, her eyes were so big! She had never seen anything like that. I didn’t even expect it to be that bad. 😮 I avoid BF crowds like the plague! (I think “black” is because stores are in the black after the sale.)
@3DJapan 4 ай бұрын
I worked at Best Buy in 2004 I think, during Black Friday. Every employee had to come in but we were only there for 4 hrs. There was a line that snaked around the whole store for the cash registers. I worked in DVDs so my whole job that day was to stand in the middle of the aisle and point at DVDs when people asked for them.
@FelifromGermany 5 ай бұрын
Regarding the *origin of the term "Black Friday"* : Most sources state that the explanation of businesses going from red into black numbers on that day (making profit) is actually a myth: www.history.com/news/black-friday-thanksgiving-origins-history 👉Did you guys do any Black Friday shopping? 😊🛍
@Lisared023 5 ай бұрын
No and never will. My parents tell a story of going to a black Fri sale, My dad had to quickly scoop up my mom and get up against the wall to not get run over!!! I learned from their experience. I did work one year at a retail store. I had to start at 2 am bc the store was opening at 3 am. I climbed up on a display to keep from getting ran over!! The crowds were all running to get the items they were specifically there to get!
@ann-charlotteholman7843 5 ай бұрын
Crazy.
@Oma_Wetterwachs 5 ай бұрын
Puzzles, books and documentaries for the daughter of my Cousin.... I'm honest...this kid wants no smartphone or Computer Instead of 500 Page books and 2000'parts (parts? Idk If this is the right translation) Harry Potter Puzzles and she reads Sometimes...GOETHE (little parts, I don't send her a while book, only the positive Things..)... I mean wtf she is 9y old, If I buy her Faust my Cousin will k*ll me... If I would live in her neighborhood, this kid would be 24/7 at my Home... I was the Same at this age before my father d...Nja, whatever. Hope she will Not bipolar Like so many in my Family and me, too. I would Not Wonder If some day she comes to me and could the "Nibelungenlied/Niebelungensage" by rote..... 🤯
@Oma_Wetterwachs 5 ай бұрын
Ok, correction: The gun. Just for the stereotype.
@powerguymark 5 ай бұрын
I can't believe you said, " one of the reasons Black Friday is called Black Friday is because of the chaos, like black day for police incidents..." According to who? None of my cop friends...
@alvagoldbook2 5 ай бұрын
You kids today have no idea what a real Black Friday looks like. Most of the craziness has stopped because of Amazon. But I remember the days before Amazon got so popular and people still bought CDs and DVDs before streaming. I once went to Best Buy to pick up a DVD and totally forgot it was Black Friday. The line for checkout weaved throughout the entire store and it took me an hour just to get to the cashier. It took me another hour to get out of the parking lot. Back in the late 90’s I worked graveyard shift at Lowe’s stocking shelves. There was a Walmart next to the building. We had to come in Thanksgiving night to work. I remember opening the bay doors we used to bring in lumber from outside. I looked and saw people wrapped around the Walmart building waiting for the doors to open. It was freezing cold out too. And this was at 4am too.
@tonygumbrell22 5 ай бұрын
The term "Black Friday" began to be used in the media to refer to the day, Friday, after Thanksgiving when Christmas shopping began and then stores began advertising discounts to induce a shopping frenzy. This first started in the late 1980s according to reliable sources I have read, and since I was an adult at that time (I turned 40 in 1985) I have a pretty good memory of it. The hype for it is provided for free by the media, which seem to focus on it every year for want of anything better to report, and for the businesses affected it's a bonanza. I am annoyed by the foolishness of it; fortunately, it doesn't last long.
@JDoors 5 ай бұрын
One of the funniest, and saddest, and most maddening videos dealing with Black Friday is a content creator goes up to signs on "Black Friday Sale" products, slips her hand behind that price card, and pulls out the price card behind it: THEY ARE THE SAME PRICE. The "Black Friday Sale" price is the exact same as the price as it was before Black Friday! She does this to a dozen different products.
@alastairthegreat2887 4 ай бұрын
You should try doing this with other sales prices too.
@Malember 5 ай бұрын
Many years ago, most businesses in the US made their annual "profit" in the time between mid-November to the end of the December (especially the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas), and their accounting books went from being in the red to being in the black. Thus, "Black Friday" and the big sales. No one really remembers those times anymore. Does anyone even use paper ledgers like I used to work with?
@FelifromGermany 5 ай бұрын
Most sources say that that's actually the myth www.history.com/news/black-friday-thanksgiving-origins-history
@Malember 5 ай бұрын
@@FelifromGermany I can only speak to what I actually worked with. It usually took most of the companies I worked for over 9 months to make enough money to cover their annual operating expenses, and the rest of the tax/accounting year was "profit" - part of which would form a cushion for the next year, and part of which allowed for "bonuses" to be paid out to some staff, and parts for shareholders, etc. Or put another way: If your tax year is January through December and you need 1,000,000 a year to cover your expenses, and you reach that income level in November, then that is when you go from operating in the red to operating in the black.
@FelifromGermany 5 ай бұрын
@@Malember That might be true but it doesn't seem to be the origin of the term
@Malember 5 ай бұрын
@@FelifromGermany Perhaps it has different meanings depending on one's work background and life experiences. :)
@kccroll6070 5 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing, I had never read that before about Black Friday, interesting. You are always here to teach, and I'm here to learn 😊 @@FelifromGermany
@williamantico7768 5 ай бұрын
So, just to let you know, The term Black Friday refers to a Accounting term meaning the all stores from that day forward are now operating in the Black, as opposed to being in the red. After Black Friday stores are now making a profit which is why they can discount their merchandise so much.
@seanbean002 5 ай бұрын
I love watching you and Ben shopping all the stores and Black Friday in the states because it reminds me of the first time I took my now husband, from Sigmaringen, shopping 😂 he was amazed by stores like Express, and how inexpensive it was, in Ohio. And how invested everyone was in making sure he was 'helped' every five min..
@jayb33 5 ай бұрын
So nostalgic. I haven't gone shopping on black Friday for probably 15 years. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! 😀
@roberthevern6169 5 ай бұрын
Ben seems to be preparing mentally for what he and Feli will soon be facing!
@TheQuickSilver101 5 ай бұрын
It's funny, I have never gone Black Friday shopping. I buy Christmas gifts in advance of the holiday so I'm not too pressed as the day approaches. I don't know if this is the best approach but it's kept me generally happier during the Christmas season
@Lorrainecats 5 ай бұрын
Good thinking. I agree and do the same
@dpsonnenberg4537 5 ай бұрын
Thank you for the video. I can't wait for the next show.
@TONHEAD7 5 ай бұрын
Awesome couple, glad to see you both happy! 🎉
@ericvanvlandren8987 5 ай бұрын
Happy Holidays Feli! Love your videos!! 😘
@ro6742 2 ай бұрын
Her English and Midwest accent are absolutely perfect. Only a few times does she put an inflection at the end of a word that tips the listener off that it’s not her first language.
@that1guy335 5 ай бұрын
these 2 seems so right for each other. hopefully he proposes soon
@allenminer6244 5 ай бұрын
It's probably a really good thing that there are "crowds" on Black Friday. I would never participate in the chaos, but I'm happy for the merchants and the economy. Your video shows how chaotic and frustrating it is to go out and shop. Glad you did it (for your subscribers)!
@georgeemeny6123 5 ай бұрын
Glad you took us Black Friday shopping now I know I didn't miss anything. Never was into BF shopping, never thought the deals out weighted the stress and hassle! I feel the same way about running from one grocery store to another to take advantage of their weekly deals or coupons.
@rickyparker7692 5 ай бұрын
Didn't take long for Ben to drop the F bomb😅 gotta love black friday😂
@user-kl7qe1zu5v 5 ай бұрын
And not long after that Feli did too! 😁
@Shadowfax-1980 5 ай бұрын
As an American kid who grew up in the 80s and 90s, it makes me sad to see malls dying. They were such a fun hangout back in the day and I wish the younger generations had something to experience like that but I guess I’m just getting old! Also, I think the term Black Friday stands for the day that most retailers would become profitable for the year (i.e. their finances go from the “red” to the “black”).
@user-kl7qe1zu5v 5 ай бұрын
Hey Feli! I really enjoy the videos where we get to tag along with you (and Ben) doing ordinary things. I know its not what you started the channel about, but its fun! Maybe because you two are fun - and glib. BTW here in Louisville we have "ghost malls" as well, so it's not just a Cincinnati thing. And Ben, sorry about the tough season the Bengals are having. ☹
@danharlan80 5 ай бұрын
I was in retail from 2000-2016. Online shopping definitely made it way less insane over the years, im sure the pandemic just made it that much easier for people to do their shopping online and pick it up later in the day
@natashaw401 5 ай бұрын
love u sharing thanks neat to see
@peterzavon3012 5 ай бұрын
I was at Penny's mid-day Wednesday BEFORE Thanksgiving. No crowds at all, but the Black Friday sale was in full swing. This was in a mall in the Rochester, NY, area that is still pretty full of businesses.
@alexaales7937 5 ай бұрын
you two are just the cutest couple ever! i really hope you'll make it far. pressing my thumbs - revealing being german cause you guys cross your fingers. i wish you two all the best!
@timmooney7528 5 ай бұрын
I took Black Friday off this year. My main shopping days are Local Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday.
@leonb2637 5 ай бұрын
The Pandemic put an end to Thanksgiving and early Friday openings. Especially in 2020, many states and cities banned under emergency orders retail stores from opening on Thanksgiving and limiting store hours. There was also staffing issues, supply line issues so many planned deals were not available. There was a huge shift to 'cyber Monday' and online sales over the whole weekend, including late on Thanksgiving day. After 2020, public and government pressures, demands from employees, shifts to online sales, have discouraged many retailers to open on Thanksgiving day. Also many retailer are offering 'early Black Friday' deals in the weeks before and after Thanksgiving.
@markrossow6303 5 ай бұрын
yes bought cat litter box bags online on an early Cyber Monday deal !! only connection I see is it is an electric motor litter box (we have ended up with (4) cats, (2) born under our front porch...)
@danielreher1987 5 ай бұрын
And this chaos ladies and gentlemen is why I don't like chaotic shopping centers anymore more. Too many people! Hopefully you both had some fun and it was a productive trip.
@greatscot04 5 ай бұрын
I haven't shopped in store on Black Friday in years. I just do everything online now. This year, sales were starting the week before.
@colleenhawkins4538 5 ай бұрын
It was originally called Black Friday because that is the day most retailers financial books made it out of the red and in the black.
@FelifromGermany 5 ай бұрын
Most sources say that that's actually the myth www.history.com/news/black-friday-thanksgiving-origins-history
@rickkorath8175 5 ай бұрын
Some years ago, I worked at Toys R Us. We would get in trouble for calling it Black Friday. They demanded we call it Green Friday for all the Green we would make that day.
@Lorrainecats 5 ай бұрын
That makes more sense
@keithhudson1358 5 ай бұрын
Feli, I am surprised you left that late. You and Ben shoudl have left around 4am lol to get those door buster deals just like in the good ole days.
@FelifromGermany 5 ай бұрын
Stores really didn't open until 8am or 9am this year and we didn't see any empty shelves when arrived so I really don't think it was like that this year. (plus, I was working until 3 in the morning so getting up at 8 was already early for me) 😅 I would have lived to stay out late on Thursday but everything was closed then too
@PaulFellows3430 4 ай бұрын
In my area of the UK, Black Friday is mainly online. That suits me perfectly as, like you, I hate crowded stores. In crowded places I cannot think straight and I get agitated. Online I can just chill and shop to my heart's content.
@warrendavis9262 3 ай бұрын
Wow! Feli singing Feliz Navidad! I have officially heard *everything*...
@boballmendinger3799 5 ай бұрын
I miss the malls we used to have in Columbus, especially Westland, Eastland, and City Center. Thanks for the video, you two are a sweet couple.
@JohnMcmillin-br8tk 5 ай бұрын
Unfortunately they became hangouts'..
@boballmendinger3799 5 ай бұрын
@@JohnMcmillin-br8tk sadly, yes.
@azurebluehc299 5 ай бұрын
The term Black Friday comes from retailers being "in the black," meaning this is the time of the year where they make a profit and their spreadsheets aren't "in the red." Thanksgiving, as a holiday, is less commercialized than most other holidays. It's simply a time to gather with family and friends and many employees and people in general were pushing back against the concept of shopping on Thanksgiving. In my area, businesses would actually take out ads wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and promoting the fact that they were giving their employees off that day and that their business would be closed.
@sdcowboy85 5 ай бұрын
PLEASE give us more streams like this out in the wild
@mjjm6220 5 ай бұрын
Black Friday has to do with the first day in the year that the stores turn a profit. From selling a huge amount of products.
@DaveMelton 5 ай бұрын
This year it just seemed more chill, where I live.
@mosmarb 5 ай бұрын
Just as well Ben is so chill, I’d have been going slowly mad driving round trying to a find a parking spot!
@eriks1169 Ай бұрын
Before Amazon, we used to physically go to a physical store and shop on Black Friday. We would fall in line at about 5:00 am to buy something at Circuit City (before it closed).
@zonacrocone4804 5 ай бұрын
Germany had the equivalent to the BF craze for a long time twice a year: at the "Sommerschlussverkauf and Winterschlussverkauf." I remember in my childhood, people behaved completely crazy when the stores opened and the crowd rushed in to battle for position at the "Wühltische." I guess that also is long gone, nowadays everyone shops online.
@napoleonfeanor 5 ай бұрын
I don't
@Plasmacore_V 5 ай бұрын
Back in the 90's I remember the line to check out in Best Buy wrapping around inside the store multiple times.
@raev87 4 ай бұрын
I worked at Kenwood Sephora from 2014-mid-2021 and I don’t miss it. But Black Friday during Covid was great. Also, we were open on Thanksgiving in 2014 and we closed an hour later because no one was shopping. We never opened again on Thanksgiving. Also pro tip - use the garage under the Kenwood Collection. You have to dodge traffic walking to the mall but you’re guaranteed a spot.
@annamarie5014 5 ай бұрын
Oh man. Growing up Kenwood was the BEST mall. I’m really glad it’s still doing well! I personally do Black Friday shopping online because people are crazy.
@michaelsherck5099 5 ай бұрын
Thank you for reminding me what I missed. I left the house once on Friday, to take a garbage bag out to the trash cart. That was a good choice! Nice to watch the two of you together. You seem like an interesting couple. Do both of you have KZfaq channels?
@mikealdana8012 5 ай бұрын
I’ve worked a lot of Black Friday’s for high end food retail (Espresso Bar -> Neiman Marcus Store #1 in Downtown Dallas), and it was non stop chaos from 7am-5pm. “The Original” Neiman Marcus store has always attracted celebrities from all walks of life (movies, sports, fashion icons, and etc), so it was all worth it.
@berniej.rucker4252 5 ай бұрын
Back in "14, I went to Black Friday Best Buy at around 3:00 a.m. I waited like a half hour to get into the store; had my own personal employee to help guide me through the store and tell me what the best deals were...I ended up buying some blue-ray movies; a surround system; a digital camera; a Mac Book Pro and a small refrigerator/freezer. I spent a little over $700.00 because EVERYTHING was discounted by 90%!!! Checkout only took another half hour and I was pulling into my parking lot as the sun was coming up!!!! My personal employee guide left me as soon as I got into the check-out line to go help the NEXT customer navigate the store. I brought this to your attention because it was the MOST ENJOYABLE time I had Black Friday shopping!!! SHOUT OUT TO BEST BUY!!!! YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!
@paulharrison8379 5 ай бұрын
Please tell me about any MacBook Pros you know about currently at 90% off.
@barryfletcher7136 5 ай бұрын
I have been in a lot of stores on Black Friday over the decades and I have never seen out-of-control crowds.
@dianaross2999 5 ай бұрын
Black Friday is the day that retailers go into the black. I wish I’d seen you out shopping. I live near Cincinnati as well.
@zachkrueger8611 5 ай бұрын
I worked in retail on black Friday before covid and it is nuts. Home Depot is my favorite place to shop.
@bigalthetank 5 ай бұрын
I think the parking lot would drive me nuts before I ever got into the stores! I like shopping at Meijer or Target in the middle of the week when no one's there. Black Friday is too much for me lol I remember back in the day Best Buy was hopping! People would camp out in line all night to be first into the store! Last time I drove by the local Best Buy the only cars in the parking lot were the Geek Squad cars.
@mikebrown7326 5 ай бұрын
HI Feli!😊 That line at Auntie Anne's Pretzels was no fluke. If you haven't had one, they are the best pretzels I've ever had. The butter and salt pretzels are awesome!🥨🥨🥨🥨
@jameslkiii 5 ай бұрын
I like Auntie Anne's alot, but the pretzels in Germany are on another level.
@FelifromGermany 5 ай бұрын
Oh I've definitely had one! They're a whole different food than German pretzels lol they're extremely sweet and greasy 😅 There's a place and time for them but they taste like straight diabetes to me
@markrossow6303 5 ай бұрын
they literally stink like a Subway sandwich shop stinks
@markrossow6303 5 ай бұрын
so I was listening to another KZfaq vid about a German person when this popped up -- "How the Reformation Shaped the Modern West" Martin Luther kzfaq.infoio86VNYP3ww?si=0HLHUDWIf2REyXy2
@moreanimals6889 5 ай бұрын
Black in Black Friday is a really old term dating back to the days when business owners had to write down transactions in huge paper ledgers with pen and ink. Business was either in the red referring to the ink color or in the black. If it was in the red, you were in the negative and not meeting your profit margins. If it was in the black, business was doing well. Black Friday is considered to be the first day, businesses can count on where business does amazing and continues to do amazing heading into the new year.
@markpaprocki8315 5 ай бұрын
Haven't seen a crowded mall in forever. Nice.
@jameswarfield4152 5 ай бұрын
I don't shop that much at actual stores any more. I started shopping less and less about 5 years ago, up to now, I shop mostly on line. The main reason, is when I go to the stores, they either aren't decorated in the festive of the season, so it just feels like any other day. So I decorated the home around Thanksgiving, and start shop from a very festive decorated home. I remember when the even the malls and shopping centers had decorations on their light polls. Now most stores just seem to decorate with a few cut out type decoration's, or use the merchandise display as their decorations.
@stephlsh3215 5 ай бұрын
The only time I ever went shopping before dawn on Black Friday was in 2008 when my son was a few weeks old. I gave him his early morning bottle, put him back to bed, and ran to the baby store, where at 6am their mad rush was already over and I practically had the store to myself. I bought my deals and was home in bed less in about half an hour.
@shadowangel3995 4 ай бұрын
Some Walmarts still sell BB or Pellet guns as well as ammunition, archery stuff, and knives around the where the gun cabinets were.
@cathydavis9259 5 ай бұрын
About 10 years ago we had to miss Thanksgiving dinner because Sears was having a great deal on KitchenAid mixers, and we needed to get 4 for our married kids. The issue was not many of the Sears stores had the mixers in stock so we had to visit 4 or 5 stores. I bought a kitchen aid mixer when we were first married and use it all the time (whip cream to bread and cookie dough) having had no problems. I was excited to get theirs for them. Come to find out The black Friday mixers were a "special purchase' and didn't have the same high quality. After using them once and a while they all burned out after 3 or 4 years. I learned not all deals are good deals. That was my LAST time with black Friday "deals", from anywhere.
@SJPace1776 5 ай бұрын
Kenwood is such a contrast to malls like Florence or others that have been dying and feel so barren now. The internet has definitely vecome where so many people buy stuff now.
@richardpedersen9189 4 ай бұрын
You guys went thru a LOT for a video 🤣 Better you than me. THANKS 🎅 🙃 🍻
@MarcGrafZahl 5 ай бұрын
The last days, I was fed up with my smart phone smoking from all the Black Friday e-mails and notifications, and that's not even the US, but just Spain. Although I have to say, this year, it saved me some money. Some days ago, our washing machine retired, and we needed a new one. We already were in the Black Friday period, and we bought the new one for €449, more than €100 cheaper than the normal price. (I just checked the price now, and it's €579, so in this case the offer was a genuine one.)
@classiccomputing 5 ай бұрын
We always go to the Macys garage at Kenwood. No need to drive around endlessly to find a parking spot!
@Razmoudah 5 ай бұрын
My favorite Black Friday tradition is to stay home and take it easy.
@yuusuga 4 ай бұрын
In Massachusetts, stores stay closed all day. They aren't allowed to open until about 1am Friday morning.
@guygrotke8059 5 ай бұрын
Harbor Freight has a cheap table saw that is fine for hobby use. I wouldn't try building a house with it, but for DIY projects it's great.
@utha2665 5 ай бұрын
I'm with you Feli, I hate shopping crowds too. I'd rather pay a bit more and come back when it's quieter. We have Black Friday shopping in Australia too now but our main discount shopping is December 26th or Boxing Day as we don't celebrate Thanks Giving here.
@natashaw401 5 ай бұрын
great seeing today
@yugioht42 5 ай бұрын
Black Friday in Orlando is actually pretty quiet. It’s usually the Walmart, mall, toys r us, Costco, and home. With a stop at McDonald’s somewhere in the middle of the day getting a McRib or several (McRib tends to return right around thanksgiving hence why). Best Buy usually is a later date because it’s just nuts. There’s no chaos of fights just it’s just packed full of people. The staff is already nuts constantly on floors restocking or showing people things. The hobby stores are actually quite dead for some reason and it’s fine by me as I can get things without having to wait.
@gfreakand4eyes 5 ай бұрын
I love how chill you both are like. “This is not as fun anymore but we’re going to make the best of it.” 😂. That’s actually the best way to approach Black Friday. No need to fight or get into arguments with random strangers. It’s never that important. 11:58. 😮 I could be going crazy but I could swear that’s Midnight Pretenders by Tomoko Aran. Which is a very specific city pop song most people wouldn’t know. But it’s playing loudly at a Best Buy? WHAT? lol. I would go a bit crazy if I heard any city pop music in public.
@drh3rd 5 ай бұрын
You two are lovely together...
@lisaadams2118 5 ай бұрын
Y’all are amazing 😂
@Nils.Minimalist 5 ай бұрын
13:18 as a german i have (of course) a "oh no, not you again" doormat 🤭
@scottmorin357 5 ай бұрын
To really experience the chaos of black Friday you need to be there when the store opens. I used to do this day years ago but since online shopping I have not. And really not worth it I would pay more for it on another day or online. I do still shop day after Xmas though great deals to be had on decorations and stuff they didn't sell.
@loboheeler 5 ай бұрын
The post-pandemic world changed everything with shopping. Store lockdown restrictions and lines of drive-through the only access killed in-store shopping. My local Starbucks was once a busy place for indoor and outdoor consumption. but has been mostly empty since 2020. Just drive -through.
@kilsestoffel3690 5 ай бұрын
Reminds me of the last saturday before christmas in my German town center
@250Rem 5 ай бұрын
I am so glad I went on a Sunday not great not a lot of line and at Crabtree on Sunday this year as a Thanksgiving
@jaycee330 5 ай бұрын
Gotta love it. Black Friday brings out the swearing in Feli. (Can't blame you, though.) When I lived in Cinci, I used to do my shopping at Forest Fair Mall, and it was a treat. Sadly, the mall is no more.
@chaosrulerofall 5 ай бұрын
Fred meyers on the west coast has a half off sock sale for black friday and having worked there for 13 years ive seen people fight over socks several times, even grannies. And several of the orders ive rung up have been over 2k in the past
@stevenskorich7878 5 ай бұрын
I call Black Friday "Stay Home and Buy Nothing Day", because that's what I do with it. You and Ben seem to be on a mission to keep me amused in my old age. It's working!😎😎
@ST-xx9rt 5 ай бұрын
I like it when you swear. Only because you are so polished on your videos. More like the rest of us i guess. Merry Christmas
@carlbeaver7112 2 ай бұрын
I remember going to Kenwood Mall, probably around 1960 - '61. After that we had moved to West Chester / Pisgah area (from Dillonvale/Blue Ash) and mainly went to Tri-County Mall. I recall going to Kenwood Mall because there was a McDonald's nearby. The only other McDonalds (that I can recall) nearby was in Roselawn, on Reading Rd. I t was one of the early style stores, red and white squares with the two huge yellow arches.
@josueveguilla9069 5 ай бұрын
Black Friday is Love, Black Friday is Life.
@arnodobler1096 5 ай бұрын
Black Friday October 29, 1929🤔
@professorfink 5 ай бұрын
Feli, you even make a trip to a mall interesting! You are a "natural" for this medium!
@lear1980 5 ай бұрын
I tried black Friday shopping 30+ years ago. I made one stop and headed home. Since then I only leave the house the day after Thanksgiving to make a grocery run if needed.
@BuryMeInBabylon 5 ай бұрын
Kenwood mall on black Friday is brave
@rachel0brusseau 4 ай бұрын
“Friend and Family Discount” is when the company allows the public to have the same discount their employees get. So an employee may receive 30% off all year. But during “friend and family” days, the public can receive the discount. I think when it started employees received a limited amount of coupons for friends and family. But now it’s everyone.
@joannebarber4845 5 ай бұрын
This is why I don't go shopping on Black Friday. Way too many people. I like to window shop and that takes some calmness. ps. The Term Black Friday come from the accountants. The Day after Thanksgiving is when , hopefully, the stores " go into the black" meaning make more money.
@natashaw401 5 ай бұрын
lines at places wow wow
@kitkatkrissy 5 ай бұрын
They start Black Friday sales a few weeks before so that's a better time to shop. Not nearly as crowded.
@DAVIDGREGORYKERR 5 ай бұрын
There is an underground mall in Chicago that covers a large area I think you have been to it, Macy's is brilliant and there is a shop in London that was created by someone who worked in Macy's
@dilbertdoe601 5 ай бұрын
🎉
@stacyreedy7109 5 ай бұрын
I remember going out with my friend on Thanksgiving night. We had to wait in this huge line at toys rus . Getting gifts for her kids ,my God children
@patbaker6266 5 ай бұрын
I only shopped black Friday once I learned to lead with my elbows. Now days the "deals" start the weekend after Halloween here.
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