this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2025
328 points (92.3% liked)
memes
18296 readers
2628 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I don't know if it's different elsewhere, but in the UK, the only difference in Black Friday prices is that there is a label next to them with a fictitious price they are supposedly discounted from.
Here in the EU, we have legislation that makes such things basically illegal. Sad that yinz aren't in here, anymore...
Oh its illegal to do that in the UK too. All the retailers just break the law.
More accurately, the law (which is about the same as the EU law and large parts of EU consumer law were actually modelled on our consumer law) has to have clearly defined edges. IIRC it stipulates that the "real" price advertised during a sale must have been the price for a minimum of X months (not sure what exactly, I think it's six).
That's why we're currently seeing toothpaste for £7 - so they can do the price drop promo in 6 or so month's time without breaking advertising law while at the same time raising the baseline price in our psyches.
Hopefully it will change soon. Wayfair and a few others are currently under investigation for price fuckery.
In the US, companies gradually increase prices from around August to right before Black Friday, when they cut prices to the same price it was before or higher.
Especially shitty companies will prioritize the sale of their inventory which is likely to be more defective.