{"id":160147,"date":"2025-11-30T04:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/160147\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T04:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:09:20","slug":"perth-shoppers-set-aside-cost-of-living-concerns-to-shop-black-friday-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/160147\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth shoppers set aside cost of living concerns to shop Black Friday frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Friday shoppers have cast aside cost of living concerns to snap up deals, particularly on big-ticket items, during what experts say has become the biggest sales event of the year.<\/p>\n

Bargain hunters were out in droves on the first official day of the sales, leaving roads around major shopping centres such as Karrinyup and Carousel in Cannington congested.<\/p>\n

About six million Australians are expected to spend nearly $7 billion over the four days between Black Friday and Cyber Monday.<\/p>\n

The Australian Retailers Association is tipping West Australians will fork out $800 million over the next few days, up 5.5 per cent on last year.<\/p>\n

Australian National University marketing lecturer Andrew Hughes said shoppers have saved up \u201creally hard\u201d ahead of Black Friday to snap up pre-Christmas discounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Friday is the best deal day of the year, it is better than Boxing Day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Despite consumer prices spiking up 3.8 per cent nationally in the year to October \u2014 the worst inflation surge in more than a year \u2014 Dr Hughes reckons shoppers \u201cabsolutely will\u201d cast aside cost of living pressures over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Big-ticket items such as TVs, washing machines and fridges, as well as technology, will like be in particularly hot demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re buying the big-ticket stuff now, they take a breather for a couple of weeks, and then get ready for (Christmas Day), in other words, the food and the drinks,\u201d Dr Hughes said.<\/p>\n

Suzy Varley was mainly shopping for Christmas presents for her husband, son and parents, and spent about $900 at Karrinyup Shopping Centre on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a couple of little bits for myself because the sales were so good,\u201d she said, adding she was saving for most of the year knowing she was going to spend big during Black Friday.<\/p>\n

\"SuzyCamera IconSuzy Varley and Vikki Casella pictured at Karrinyup Shopping Centre, Perth, on Friday. Credit: Carwyn Monck\/The West Australian<\/p>\n

Ms Varley said the shopping precinct was \u201cabsolutely chock-a-block, I was being followed out of the car park\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jacintha Fraser-Gillard bought clothes that were 50 per cent off, as well as heavily-discounted candles and make-up brushes.<\/p>\n

While she managed to tick some Christmas gifts off her list, most of her purchases were for herself.<\/p>\n

Karrinyup centre general manager Trudy Cook expects this year will be one of the precinct\u2019s biggest Black Fridays on the books, with tens of thousands of people expected to walk through the doors over the next four days.<\/p>\n

\"AngieCamera IconAngie James-Wallace and Jacintha Fraser-Gillard pictured at Karrinyup Shopping Centre, Perth, on Friday. Credit: Carwyn Monck\/The West Australian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black Friday shoppers have cast aside cost of living concerns to snap up deals, particularly on big-ticket items,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46,43,3695,48036],"class_list":["post-160147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-retail","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}