Why don't we participate in Black Friday?

We have decided not to participate in the Black Friday madness. Black Friday is an American shopping frenzy that (unfortunately) also reached the Netherlands around 2015. Stores offer their products with big discounts, but in the end there is always  someone who pays for this. And it's not the stores that offer these discounts.

Black Friday encourages buying products that you don't need at all and is therefore diametrically opposed to conscious consumption. Unnecessary consumption of raw materials, an immense mountain of waste and underpaid men, women and children working in poor conditions and loss-making small entrepreneurs are the downside of our 'bargains'.