🤯 WE'RE BROKE, BUT WE STILL SPENT $11.8 BILLION?! Black Friday Exposed! 💸 Wait, are we actually supposed to believe that the American consumer is stressed, anxious about job security, drowning in price hikes, yet somehow collectively dropped $11.8 billion on a single Friday? Be serious. My entire feed is “ how to budget in 2025 ” one minute and “ massive unboxing haul ” the next. The cognitive dissonance is so intense I might genuinely short-circuit. Let’s get this straight: Black Friday isn’t about snagging a cheap 50-inch TV anymore. It is a full-blown financial fever dream where, for 24 hours, we all pretend the economy is fine, and the receipts prove we are committed to the fantasy. The numbers are absolutely deranged. Adobe Analytics , the people who stare directly into our digital wallets, confirmed that U.S. shoppers spent a record-breaking $11.8 billion online , a wild 9.1 percent jump from last year. And from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., which is that prime “still in a tur...
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