A lot of people are just getting their stuff from online stores. I don't know if the brick and mortar stores offer the same discounts in their online stores, but they may have started to. There is also the Cyber-Monday thing. People would rather shop from home than standing in line to buy the few things left. Also, people have probably gotten tired of these stores pulling the black Friday BS. Black Friday is supposed to be the day that stores finally get in the red because of all the shopping people do. They put out some discounts to get people to buy more stuff. The truth is that they could offer the same exact prices all year long, and they'd be in the black far more often. Instead they try to rip you off all year long, and they entice you to buy their old inventory at the end of the year at a normal price.