Feb 28 is economic blackout day

[Anonymous]

Every day is blackout day for us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So how do we find out if the blackout made any impact?

It’s a good point. With consumer confidence and the markets down and uncertainty and inflation up, it will be difficult to discern what is intentional blackout vs people pulling back broadly because they are worried about the economy.

We participated yesterday and feel like we’ll just basically keep going.

Just for Target, there was quite a dip on Friday in stock price. Although this isn't 100% related, I do find this interesting.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tgt

Thanks for this info!

[Anonymous]

Trump's actions are going to make the working class poorer, so yeah, it's going to be a bigger economic blackout coming.

A handful of greedy billionaires cannot keep the economy afloat. You can only generate so much economic activity buying yachts, jewelry and luxury cars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every day is blackout day for us.

Same for us now too.

[Anonymous]

I think we can agree this was a failure. I would love to protest and show my disapproval of so much that is occurring but yesterday was not the way. I am in graduate school (later in life career shift) and few of my classmates (20s) had heard about it. I asked my teens also who are usually in the know about current sentiment bc of til tok and they had not heard of it either. A campaign aimed at UMC gold of middle age is not the right strategy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we can agree this was a failure. I would love to protest and show my disapproval of so much that is occurring but yesterday was not the way. I am in graduate school (later in life career shift) and few of my classmates (20s) had heard about it. I asked my teens also who are usually in the know about current sentiment bc of til tok and they had not heard of it either. A campaign aimed at UMC gold of middle age is not the right strategy.

Consumer spending is at its lowest in 3 years. So no, not a failure

[Anonymous]

I spent $200 yesterday in person. On purpose. It was great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I spent $200 yesterday in person. On purpose. It was great.

Good.

Waste your money.

In six months, when we are in a depression, cash will be king. And the people saving their pennies now will be glad they did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think we can agree this was a failure. I would love to protest and show my disapproval of so much that is occurring but yesterday was not the way. I am in graduate school (later in life career shift) and few of my classmates (20s) had heard about it. I asked my teens also who are usually in the know about current sentiment bc of til tok and they had not heard of it either. A campaign aimed at UMC gold of middle age is not the right strategy.

Saying it doesn't make it so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I spent $200 yesterday in person. On purpose. It was great.

Good.

Waste your money.

In six months, when we are in a depression, cash will be king. And the people saving their pennies now will be glad they did.

DP and why the focus on spending with cash? It’s still spending. So is this to target online spending? One could argue you are causing more traffic on the road and gas to get to the store. No, everyone doesn’t have electric cars or live in walking distance to stores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think we can agree this was a failure. I would love to protest and show my disapproval of so much that is occurring but yesterday was not the way. I am in graduate school (later in life career shift) and few of my classmates (20s) had heard about it. I asked my teens also who are usually in the know about current sentiment bc of til tok and they had not heard of it either. A campaign aimed at UMC gold of middle age is not the right strategy.

Consumer spending is at its lowest in 3 years. So no, not a failure

Especially if we keep this up.

In January I decided this would be a "low buy year" for my new years resolution, in order to save money in case of potential layoffs. And also because we have way too much stuff.

Joined my local buy nothing group and am giving away excess stuff we don't use, while buying as little as we can. Mainly groceries and health related items. So was pretty easy for me to go without shopping for one day.

All you 1%ers need to go out there and do some trickling down because the rest of us can't afford it anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all really disappointed me. I have Fridays off and was so excited to
shop in peace. As usual the Whole Foods on Wilson and TJs on Highland was a MADHOUSE. Then thought well maybe i can go out to dinner without reservations and not wait forever. Once again huge fail.

come on people, get it together. Do better.

+1. My Target (NW DC) was as busy as ever yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I spent $200 yesterday in person. On purpose. It was great.

Weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I spent $200 yesterday in person. On purpose. It was great.

Is $200 a lot of
Money for you?

[Anonymous]

I didn't buy anything yesterday. But I have zero hope it made a difference. I think it is better to change long term behavior and specifically to frequent local businesses instead of chains when possible.