Black Friday, genuinely worth the chaos, or better to just wait it out these days

[TheRizz00]

Black Friday has expanded well beyond its original single day into what is now often a weeks long stretch of sales events across most major retailers, and opinion remains genuinely split on whether the whole event still delivers meaningfully better prices than simply waiting for a quieter, less chaotic sale later in the year. Critics point to the same widely reported issue of some retailers artificially inflating prices in the weeks leading up to the event specifically to make the eventual discount look more impressive than it actually is.

Defenders argue that for certain specific categories, particularly larger electronics and appliances, genuinely significant year low prices really do appear during this specific window, making the research and patience required to find the real deals among the noise genuinely worth the effort for anyone shopping for those particular items. Do you personally think Black Friday is still genuinely worth engaging with, or has the whole event become more hype than actual substance at this point?

[IronFist66]

Still worth it for me but only for a small handful of specific big ticket items I have already researched carefully in advance, I ignore basically everything else during that whole period.

[Dark Elizabeth]

I have started waiting until after the holidays entirely for a lot of items, post Christmas clearance sales have quietly become better value than Black Friday itself in my own experience.

[Dean_52]

I shop online only now rather than dealing with any of the physical store chaos, gets me most of the genuine savings without any of the actual stress involved.

[Terry_33]

I gave up on Black Friday entirely years ago, the actual crowds and chaos were never worth whatever modest savings I ended up finding in the end.

[MutedAgain57]

The whole event has become more hype than actual substance for general everyday items in my own experience, though I will admit certain specific categories still genuinely deliver

[QuantumKnight]

Genuine year low prices really do show up for certain electronics categories specifically, I have tracked prices carefully enough over the years to confirm that pattern for myself