Ray A. Smith

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Holiday Shopping and the Generational Divide · 27 Nov 2019 podcast

something that's not going to be harmed anymore. matched

And so they're thinking long term. matched

So to answer your question, they're definitely thinking of consuming this way from now on. matched

And they're not afraid to go to a secondhand shop to buy the perfect gift for their family. matched

That's another way they're looking at being more sustainable. matched

And secondhand shopping has become much easier and easier matched

and convenient with online sites like the RealReal and ThredUp where you don't have to dig through bins. matched

You can just do it from the comfort of your couch or on your phone. matched

And a lot of these younger people are seeing secondhand as almost in vogue. matched

They don't see it as something to be ashamed of or something you do as a last resort. matched

They're looking at it as smart and trendy and even another way to be sustainable. matched

Yeah, this was really something that I was really surprised about. matched

I mean, I talked with a 49-year-old father in Boston who basically said last year for the first time, matched

He shopped Black Friday weekend entirely online after years and years of going to the doorbuster sales. matched

And he's just one of this part of this shift, this generational shift, who grew up at a time when shopping in stores was what you did and then online started to take over. matched

And so they were at the cusp of this generational shift matched

to online shopping. matched

And more and more of them are moving to just shopping online rather than going into stores for Black Friday. matched

That's right. matched

So you had to go to stores and they basically still do some of their shopping in stores, but they've grown up long enough to have seen the transformation of Black Friday. matched

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