Winner winner, chicken dinner!

Myself and my dad both have done this the last few years. For him its TV's, but for me I go a bit further and that's when I stock up on DVD box sets. Didn't go this year but last year I got entire seasons of Stargate for maybe $10. Movies I'm a little more picky on, but I remember getting a couple (Sherlock Holmes and Inception) for about $5 apiece.

We were at Wal-Mart this weekend for regular groceries and I saw a large case of $5 movies. Nothing over maybe 3-4 years old and generally good movies. Definitely cheaper than their normal placement of most likely the $13 rack.

At some point in the last few months I remember hearing a conversation on that subject on CNBC I think. People are becoming trained to hold their money for the sales, which is hurting brick and mortar places because it makes for a much larger dependence on the holiday season for their existence. Another argument was that they'd wait for the After-holiday sales in January. Overall if the next two months of retail data is sour we're in for deep (er...er...er...er...you get the idea) doodoo