I assumed from the volume of Black Friday adverts in my inbox it was today

yeah it's late this year, so the sale started early

...damn it really is next week.

yup

I would prefer black Friday be tomorrow

having it this late is going to push the shipping fallout into "everyone who can actually fix this issue is on vacation" season

Unfortunately

yeah, it is super late this yeae

*year

yep. I had a weird moment of "wait, it's not next week...?" last week

Tbf, some companies just seem to do a Black Friday every Friday in November

i'm getting real annoyed about it lmao walmart's "black friday" was nov 11-17th NOT EVEN CLOSE

yep

I once bought a TV at a “Black Friday” sale in OCTOBER

How can both Black Friday and apparently Christmas be before US Thanksgiving, I don't know, but the commercial world seems to think it is?

those are usually 'early black friday' sales

although honestly some of the best sales are in october if you're looking to buy last year's stuff; they mark a lot of stuff way down or put it on clearance to make room for the 'new' stuff for black friday sales

I have the last Pixel 6A the store had last year from that

Yeah, it's always the last Thursday in November, but since the month ends on a Saturday this year it ends up feeling really weird. We usually have another half week after Thanksgiving before December and without that it feels super late.

Always the fourth thursday, sometimes there's a fifth thursday in november

but since november started on a friday, this is the latest thanksgiving we get

Yeah, this upcoming Thursday. Everyone's doing Early Black Friday and Early Cyber Monday, so...there's no real point

they've been doing things early for a few years. by the time I'm really old we'll be busting out the christmas music after fourth of july if we keep creeping up at this rate

Or they'll just never stop playing Christmas music

no escaping Mariah