Are people expecting Memorial Day sales to be huge this year?

[DodgerGirl]

Now that Memorial Day is almost here I have never seen so many stores make a big deal out of Memorial Day sales this year and if you go to any store there's always deals deals and more deals and I never seen so much hype over a holiday sale. Because it used to be that when Mother's Day was over there were few sales on Memorial Day and the stores would focus their attention on Father's Day sales. But now it seems like stores like Macy's JCPenney and Kohl's have really hyped up Memorial Day sales more than ever this year. I think the top things that sell during Memorial Day sales are cars furniture and in grocery stores you will see Memorial Day sales on foods such as steaks fruit and desserts such as cakes. And I can tell you that this Memorial Day will be the biggest day for sales this year in history

 

[citruscurtis]

Oh I hope not.. been buying dolls and plush toys on 2.00 day at Goodwill and stocking up inventory for garage sale...flea market inventory and maybe few craft shows for the Thanksgiving rush

 

[hardcorestitch]

Not surprising. The tariffs are driving more consumers to stock up now before things get more costly.

 

[slo]

I went to JCPenney yesterday and they were having a great sale on everything. I didn’t go into the mall though to see if other stores were having sales.

 

[SandyinMonterey]

I went to JCPenney yesterday and they were having a great sale on everything. I didn’t go into the mall though to see if other stores were having sales.

My local JCP has been looking like it's going to close for years. Hardly any merchandise in the store, especially bed/bath, curtains, etc. The last time I went in,, it felt like a ghost town. No customers and not a sales person to be seen. They always close early.

 

[lynxstch]

My local JCP has been looking like it's going to close for years. Hardly any merchandise in the store, especially bed/bath, curtains, etc. The last time I went in,, it felt like a ghost town. No customers and not a sales person to be seen. They always close early.

Ours has been gone for a couple of years now

 

[tvguy]

My local JCP has been looking like it's going to close for years. Hardly any merchandise in the store, especially bed/bath, curtains, etc. The last time I went in,, it felt like a ghost town. No customers and not a sales person to be seen. They always close early.

We are at the point of our lives where we don't buy much of anything other than food. But my wife was shopping for shoes at two different JCP in our area with in the past month and they are stuffed to the gills with merchandise. What they don't have are staff. Both stores had one checkout open per floor ......three floor stores.....with long lines of people. Second store someone had an issue and a supervisor had to come to the checkout to resolve it, and she apologized for the wait and tried to direct people to another checkout "around the corner" and was surprised when someone came back and told her that checkout was closed!

 

[barkley]

I think the top things that sell during Memorial Day sales are cars furniture

I worked in a furniture store while in college in the early 80's. memorial day, labor day and president's day were our 3 biggest sales days of the year. I asked the old school sales guys why sales were targeted for those particular holidays and their explanation was-'husbands are home from work/no family get-togethers'. reasoning was that women had to get their husbands approval on large purchases and 'weekends the poor guys are recovering from working all week, and these are the only holidays off work where it's not a bunch of people coming over to your house or you driving the wife and kids to someone elses'. it should be noted that we WERE closed and NEVER did sales for veteran's day 'because our vets need a day off where their wives aren't dragging them around spending THEIR money'


ummmmmmmmm, yeah-very sexist but in the context of the times we were only 6 years out from women being able to get a bank account or credit card without a husband or a other male co-signer. in the 3'ish years I worked there I only remember a very few women with credit cards in their own name. I do routinely remember women bringing in their husband or father's card with a written permission slip to use, a pre-written and signed check or good old cash.


labor day is HUGE here for mattress sales b/c we have 6 colleges locally so everyone is buying a mattress for their new rental or to swap out with the paper thin one in the dorm.