By With Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday in the rearview mirror, students are weighing in on the pros and cons of holiday shopping deals and the crowds they draw.
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), an organization made up 2,000 companies in the consumer technology industry, reported that nearly 39 million U.S. adults shopped on Thanksgiving, which is 10 million more than last year.
The CEA study also found that Black Friday was expected to be the busiest shopping day of the weekend and that Americans planned to spend an average of $258 throughout the weekend, an increase of 18 percent from last year.
Even with a record turnout, though, Thanksgiving weekend sales were the lowest since 2006, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Cyber Monday, though, is booming, according to USA Today which reported that overall sales were up by 17.5 percent as of 6 p.m. ET.
In addition, Amazon sales were up 44.3 percent from last year and eBay saw sales rise by 32.1 percent, USA Today reported. Nearly 30 percent of online traffic was from mobile devices, which is a 60 percent increase from 2012.
Many students, like junior Asian American studies major Lance Nguyen, said that Black Friday shopping is too much of a hassle so they lean instead towards shopping from the comfort of home on Cyber Monday.
“I only do Cyber Monday shopping,” he said. “I’m not going to wait in an obscenely long line where, literally, if you just go to work for that amount of time you are waiting in line, you can make the money to buy it whole price anyways.”
Junior Japanese studies major Christarith Meas said that only a good deal would justify waiting in a long line on Thanksgiving.
“I went and my friend and I couldn’t find a sale that was appealing to us,” he said. “[The deal] has to be really good, like worth my time waiting in a long line competing with others.”
Meas also said that Cyber Monday is a better deal than Black Friday.
“Cyber Monday is a little more understandable … it’s something you can do in the comfort in your own home, in a leisurely pace,” he said. “[On Thanksgiving, the] time you could spend with your family is spent just sitting in line and waiting with strangers and sweaty people.”
Other students, though, like junior community health major Gabriel Montelongo, said that Black Friday shopping is not worth the time.
“I don’t think it makes any sense to go because it cuts into Thanksgiving time,” he said.
But for some students, like senior biochemistry major Alex To, Black Friday is less about the deals and more about being with friends.
“[My friends and I] waited in line for six hours for fun,” To said. “We don’t rush to the [PlayStations] and tackle everybody. We hung out with friends in the cold, freezing to death.”
Freshman computer engineering major Marvin Hidalgo, who went shopping on Black Friday, said he plans to go Black Friday shopping again next year.
“There were lines, but it wasn’t crazy,” Hidalgo said. “I’m still doing it next year, I just have to be careful on where to go. Make sure to stay with the group you know. Never go alone.”
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