Black Friday is now an almost worldwide shopping event.
In France, however, it will not take place on November 27 this year.
Many supermarkets had already printed their discount brochures.
However, these are now obsolete, Black Friday will not take place in France as planned.
This could be a godsend for French consumers.
Paris - At the latest when a country's finance minister gets involved in a shopping event, it becomes clear that spending money is always somehow political.
Especially when it comes to the
order of magnitude of Black Friday
, the bargain day * from the USA.
In Germany alone, consumers spent
billions of euros
on just one Black Friday weekend
last year
.
In the USA, people sometimes take the whole day off to avoid missing out on any bargains.
On November 27th it would have been that time again.
France
has now
decided against it
- the reason, as so often this year:
the corona pandemic.
Black Friday 2020 France: Lockdown causes debate
It was the
great fear
of French retailers that suddenly made shopping a
political issue
.
Small bookstores, toy or electronics stores feared that they would miss out on Black Friday this year and that even more customers would migrate to Amazon.
The reason: France is still in
lockdown
until December 1st, so
most stores are
closed
.
Amazon,
on the other hand, is known to always be open.
Thereupon the
French Minister for Economic Affairs
Bruno Le Maire stepped in
: “Is the Friday of the coming week really a good date to hold Black Friday?
My answer is no. ", Quoted the AFP news agency.
A Twitter user would go even
further
.
Instead of postponing Black Friday, can't Amazon France simply cancel it?
Then my hubby could go home and everything would be fine 🙄
- ꧁𝔍𝔲𝔩𝔦𝔞 (@Rabenkynd) November 20, 2020
Double Black Friday in France: Consumers could be lucky
Not only
Amazon
, but also the Japanese online platform
Rakuten
and the large French supermarket chain
Carrefour
opted for the middle ground.
They all agreed to the Black Friday one week
move
, on the
4 December
.
French consumers could, if they do it cleverly,
take advantage of
two black Fridays
this year
.
After all, you are still free to order online on the regular Black Friday day in neighboring Belgium or other countries.
At the same time, you now have to be
extra careful
, because not everything that looks cheap is really a bargain *.
It is not known whether France's finance minister Le Maire will also take part in Black Friday, but if he does, a study knows what he will likely buy. * (Leb / AFP)
* merkur.de is part of the nationwide editorial network Ippen-Digital .
List of rubric lists: © picture alliance / Jennifer Weese / dpa
