Black Friday and Beyond
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Host Scott Detrow speaks with NPR business correspondent Alina Selyukh about what Black Friday shopping says about where the economy has been and where it might be headed.
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| 0:00.0 | The arrival of... |
| 0:03.0 | Sorry, I ate my Thanksgiving leftovers right before I tracked, which was actually a horrible idea. |
| 0:08.0 | Sorry. Okay, so we have polished off our Thanksgiving dinner and put the leftovers in the fridge and that means the holiday shopping season is |
| 0:24.6 | officially here for real. |
| 0:27.0 | Get Black Friday deals now at Target. |
| 0:30.0 | Thousands of Black Friday deals are coming to Best Buy. |
| 0:33.0 | 12 a.m. so hour, so morning, been online since yesterday. |
| 0:37.0 | Press miles, but I need coffee. |
| 0:39.0 | Five-year early word special. |
| 0:41.0 | Not today. |
| 0:42.0 | It's Black Friday. Gotta go to Black Friday, Black Friday. |
| 0:43.0 | Gotta go to colds on Black Friday. |
| 0:46.0 | Whether or not you miss the alleged good old days of lining up at the crack of dawn |
| 0:50.0 | to get that tickle me Elmo or 50 inch smart screen TV or whatever |
| 0:55.0 | or nowadays you play it safe and do your shopping from the comfort of your own home. |
| 0:59.0 | It is the time of year when many Americans are on the lookout for deals on holiday gifts |
| 1:04.6 | and stuff for themselves let's be real about that. But that's only if they feel like |
| 1:10.2 | they have the extra money to spend. People know, people love Black Friday because they know it's the biggest breadth of discounts. |
| 1:16.5 | Katie Thomas is with the Carney Consumer Institute and studies consumer buying habits. |
| 1:21.2 | What we've seen really in the last year or so is very much like a Where Now, Buy Now mentality, |
| 1:27.7 | which means that because people are tight on money, they actually tend to wait until they feel like they really need something. |
| 1:34.8 | The arrival of Black Friday and holiday sales provides the perfect excuse for many people to buy what they've been eyeing |
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