The shop owners are boycotting Black Friday: Closes the business to ensure in protest

Diapers, printers, shoes, lamps, books, hotel stays, watches, bakeware, flat screen monitors, and even robots. It is almost only the imagination that sets the limits for what you can score awesome savings on, when the calendar shows Black Friday.

But the store competition for who can sell the cheapest tumble dryer, has been too much of a good thing.

this is the sound of it from several shop owners, it takes consistency and close their shops on Friday, while tilbudsfesten rages at colleagues.

One of the tire shop owners who shut down the sales on Black Friday, the Amine Barrada, who is the owner of BuyNature. And as a suppository to the overuse that grown on Black Friday, he is asking also up in Aalborg and selling hot air in biodegradable bags.

- It is actually what you buy, when you are out in the city anyway. It is hot air, which makes you happy in a very, very short moment, until you have bought you have shown it to your friends or family. You are happy to have bought it, but it gets put in the closet with the same, says Amin Barrada.

You can acquire a bag of hot air for a 50's, and for each sold bag of lays Amine Barrada and his associate even 50 dollars on top of and donate all the fuss for an ecological project in Aalborg.

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Amine Barradas protest against Black Friday started in 2015, where he managed a store in Tivoli. When the day came, he went against the tide and put the prices up in its store in response to the many slagtilbud.

- I was simply just enough, and then I wrote on the board outside, we had plus 20 percent on the prices, he explains.

- With the years it has evolved into a protest, and we have spread the message out there, there is no reason to dedicate an entire holiday to consumption, and there is no reason to go completely crazy and buy all sorts of things that are going to stand in the closet, sounds it from him.

Since the 2015 has the Amine Barrada had success with to spread the concept of Green Friday in butiksnetværket GoGreen, which has over 300 members, who all together keep from keep Black Friday.

And they are not the only one who has said no thanks to the consumption celebration.

another shop owner, who has been out of forbrugsfesten on Black Friday, Casper Christensen, who is driving the webshop Rope of Dope.

- We are exploiting the earth's resources heavily, and it is not so fucking fat. Black Friday is an american tradition, we just copied, and as I see the retail industry today, it is just sale, sale, sale, sale. It seems I'm completely wrong, and therefore I will not support it, he says.

Casper Christensen has chosen to shut down its shop on Black Friday in order to set an example for the consumption celebration, as he believes that the environment is paying the price for.

- It may well happen that we lose some revenue that day, but the message is more important, if we and our children should be here. So we need to take care of the earth.

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People on the street: Yes, thank you for slagtilbud

Everything in moderation is indstilligen of the 50-year-old Mika Laaksonen, who acts only on Black Friday, if he's missing something. Photo: Mogens Flindt.

- you Must out and shop on Friday?

- I am always looking, I would say. If I have gone and wondered about something, so I am just inside and check out what prices have been. Last year traded I also on Black Friday.

- What do you think really on Black Friday?

- I think the, that it some times gets a little american. I think it is a little annoying, that we take all the others ' things. Why don't we make our own traditions? But fine enough if it can generate little revenue and money in society.

- On the Green Friday closes more stores, and a shop owner will sell the bags with hot air and give the money to charity. Is it something you could find to buy, or are you more for bargains?

- I would probably not buy a bag of hot air. If there is one or another, I are missing, so I will of course look for it to see if I can save some money, and then spend the money on something fun.

the 66-year-old Kirsten Provost of Odense has put the nose up after a new speaker for the home. Photo: Mogens Flindt

- you Must out and shop on Friday?

- I have suffered some speakers in the back of my mind, yes.

- What do you think really on Black Friday?

- Last year we bought a washing machine and saved a few thousand, so it is something that we can use.

- On the Green Friday closes more stores, and a shop owner will sell the bags with hot air and give the money to charity. Is it something you could find to buy, or are you more for bargains?

- Yes,the I would probably. I'm going for the offers.

Although Markus Emil Dahl Berg think Black Friday is stupid, he can't completely close themselves if dolls super great deals up. Photo: Mogens Flindt.

- you Must out and shop on Friday?

- I want to, but even though the prices are much lower, so it is still quite expensive for a student to act. And I feel that it is a bad custom. The culture around Black Friday is a consumer culture, where you just buy.

- What do you think really on Black Friday?

- I think it is quite stupid, and I think that the stores must have individual sales, when they need it. Black Friday is not cozy for the buyers, they end up being forced to buy. Stores ought to think of those who buy, and not only to make money.

- On the Green Friday closes more stores, and a shop owner will sell the bags with hot air and give the money to charity. Is it something you could Jojobet find to buy, or are you more for bargains?

- I think rather, that I would turn to on a good offer, for I have the desire to save money, but really I am a person who does not buy so much.