Retailers' sly message: get yourself a gift, too - black electric toothbrush

Even the stupidest gift
The giver may know that it is not a good idea to give anyone a wrinkle cream, an electric toothbrush or a vacuum cleaner at Christmas or light festival.
"Bisoft's Holiday saved a lot of money," Amazon said . ".
Com Home Page this week.
Estee Lauder-
Wrinkle Essentials Value Set is the "gift of the day" on Macys ".
Holiday Beauty page.
In the other person in charge of the website
Enjoy a holiday offer: $50 for Sonicare electric toothbrushes. (Down to $129.
) All of these are for specific types of holiday shoppers:gifters -
Those who can't resist buying something for themselves using the crazy seasonal sales war.
(Those "buy one get one free" are especially effective bait.
) Even a classic gift of feelings for others-jewelry -
Retailers know it's a fair game.
Under the banner of the Black Friday jewelry deal, Macy's website coaxed: "This holiday season, an unforgettable gift for the beloved (or yourself.
Black Friday jewelry is a hit
Choose the ultimate gift under the tree.
"Some research shows that since the recession, even a year or two ago
The number and cost of gifts are growing.
Perhaps these shoppers believe that big sales provide the only legitimate excuse for spending --
Or in the years that their financial situation has improved, they have finally been able to relax and splurge on something.
Regardless of the motivation, they have become a special demographic niche that retailers rely heavily on, so that many pre-holiday shopping surveys are now following them.
But some recent surveys suggest these shoppers may feel less indulgent this year.
For companies entering a season full of uncertainty and weak sales forecasts, this is a worrying prospect.
For example, Prosper Insights & Analytics is a consumer intelligence company that conducts holiday spending surveys for the National Retail Federation, found that the proportion of holiday shoppers who plan to use discounts to buy "non-gifts" for themselves or their families is smaller, compared to last year or the year before.
Considering this impulse
Buy self-promotion
Retailers will do everything they can to give gifts this year
Open, subtle, even subconscious.
Tempting people to become more like Robert Kissman of Nags HeadC.
Kissup, 25, is an incurable self. gifter.
When the store opens on Thanksgiving night and Black Friday morning, he will be at 60-
Walmart LED Smart TV
Wal-Mart will sell for $688, Ace's Slow Cooker ($15), Kmart's Android Tablet ($39) and a bunch of Blu-ray, he said
Ray disk at the target.
He is going to leave everyone to himself.
Kissman accelerated to add that he has a wife, parents and others and he also plans to buy great gifts for them.
But the reality is, the number of people on anyone's gift list --
And the general amount they will spend on each project
As far as economists are concerned, it is rather resilient.
It just doesn't change much every year.
For retailers, the potential for self-development is greater
Because there are fewer restrictions on personal needs or family needs to know.
They are reasonable as a sensible family budget initiative.
So the strategy of the vacuum cleaner is
Or, as the chief retail analyst at research and consulting firm NPD Group, Rafael al Cohen, described, promote goods that are really not gifts.
"How many people are you going to buy?
"Cohen of the big screen TV.
"That thing is not necessarily a gift --giving item.
Retailers "create it so that the price point is attractive," he says, so it's easy to reasonably buy it for themselves or even as a "family gift.
"If you can't wait to see what's available, you're going to hurt yourself," Kissman said . ".
"These discounts are really worth it," he continued . " He added, "I will never buy TV for the other 10 months of the year.
Therefore, stores and e-commerce
Commercial websites are filled with large websites.
This week's best buy ticket holiday promotion is like this: "Black Friday prices for major appliances now.
"In these deals, holiday shoppers can save $400 on Samsung steam washing machines --dryer.
Some analysts say convincing enough consumers to buy big goods like this could mean the difference between a good holiday and a disappointing one.
"I think if retailers look at it from their own perspective,
The right gift, holiday is obviously a season when there are a lot of shoppers shopping through the store, so if they can get shoppers to see other items, they can definitely attract those self
Pam Goodfellow, director of consumer insight at Prosper, said.
Olivia Mata, 32, from the Chicago suburbs, has no plans to buy things for herself during the holidays, but she says she often gives in to temptation.
She said there were proposals to make things simple.
The other day, she bought a coat for her sister and sister. in-
Law of harruckcom.
For $100, the website says, you can deliver it for free.
So she happily took two waist sweaters for herself and put her on the top.
Again, Lala.
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The clock starts with your first purchase.
Therefore, Mata said: "I go to that website every day.
She continued: "I certainly read with the intention of buying for others, but I found it easy to buy for myself.
"In New York the other day, Macy's flagship store was wearing a festive dress in the window, reproducing the story of" Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
In the store, red placards hung on the ceiling, suggesting to shoppers that giving is not just giving. Get. Share.
On the makeup floor, a similar sign beckons with another mixed message: "love it. Want it. Give it.
(By the way, Prosper's research on many large companies
Famous retailers have found that the customers of Macy's department store are most likely
A gift, says Goodfellow.
) Across the street from Sephora, a retailer of cosmetics and beauty products, the colorful logo announced, "gitolia, our happy crazy gift holiday.
Makeup is another area of the holiday promotion, Cohen said.
But he pointed out that it is much more attractive as a self than perfume.
A gift is not a real gift.