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Black Friday: outrage after disregarding the rules - Saturn customer describes alarming experience - "Are you serious?"

2020-11-30T13:57:48.980Z


Black Friday attracted many customers, especially in electronics stores. But they had to take a lot of criticism this year. A customer made a disturbing comparison at Saturn.


Black Friday attracted many customers, especially in electronics stores.

But they had to take a lot of criticism this year.

A customer made a disturbing comparison at Saturn.

  • Black Friday

    is especially popular with bargain hunters.

  • Even days before the actual sale, many shops had numerous

    offers

    in their range

  • But the

    disregard of distances

    in

    electronics stores

    came across many customers.

Hamburg -

Black Friday

: discounts, offers and promotions.

The perfect day to fulfill long-cherished wishes.

Throughout the week, many shops were already selling their goods at reduced prices.

Electronic products have been

particularly popular with

Black Friday shoppers

in recent years

.

Including smartphones, televisions, notebooks, headphones and smart home products.

So it's no wonder that the biggest rush this year took place on the

electronics stores Saturn and Media Markt

.

But with that they triggered one

shit storm

after the other.

Saturn Shitstorm on Black Friday - customer complains about "great cinema" and denounces disregard for Corona

In recent years,

Black Friday

has been criticized again and again for its consumerism.

Environmentalists like Greta Thunberg appealed to consume consciously.

But in this

Corona year

, customers also see the problem elsewhere:

Distances

.

According to some customers, electronics stores in particular were overcrowded on Black Friday.

"Increasing corona infections are a result of Black Friday," denounced a customer on Twitter, for example.

Another from Hamburg complained directly to

Saturn

on Facebook

: “Gastronomy closed, concerts prohibited, small shops are not allowed to let more than two people in, cinemas closed.

Only at

Saturn Germany

in Mönckebergstrasse is there a big cinema.

Are you serious?

On Black Friday it was more crowded

than I know from 2019 under

normal circumstances

.

And yes, the line spacing is great.

But not so great when the place is so full that people squeeze between the lines.

These are spreader hotspots

.

Not the little bar around the corner where five people have a beer.

Incredible."

Saturn Shitstorm on Black Friday - Not the first Shitstorm for the Media-Saturn-Group

It is not the first shit storm for the

Media-Saturn Group

in the Black Friday week.

A

few days ago,

Media Markt also

had to take severe criticism for

missing intervals

and

irresponsible recommendations

to customers in

Corona times

.

Of course, it is also unfavorable when the online shop does not work, especially in times of online trading.

Unfounded

cancellations

,

missing parts

and

delays

on the PlayStation 5?

- Customers saw many reasons for

complaint

.

Some retailers also deliberately mislead their customers with price changes and comparisons.

Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday: Internet instead of retail in Bavaria and Germany

Overall, retail is currently observing a strong migration of sales towards the Internet due to the corona pandemic and the countermeasures.

Based on the latest round of Corona measures alone, the Bavarian Trade Association expects that another 300 million euros in sales from the Christmas business will be transferred to the network.

That means a further burden for the dealers in the city centers.

Therefore, the Bavarian trade draws an ambiguous balance of the bargain day Black Friday.

While sales and customer frequency in the shops were 20 to 30 percent lower than last year, online “the mail went off”, said the managing director of the Bavarian Trade Association, Bernd Ohlmann, on Friday.

Overall, he assumes a clear increase in sales and confirmed the forecast that on Black Friday and the so-called Cyber ​​Monday that followed after the weekend, a total of around 500 million euros in sales would be made in Bavarian retailers.

(chd)

List of rubric lists: © picture alliance / Monika Skolimowska / dpa

Source: merkur

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