Question

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the largest shopping day of the year. Do the early shoppers, who often wait in line for hours in the cold to get doorbuster sale items, have elastic or inelastic demand?

Answer 1

Answer: I personally would say the shoppers who wait in line for hours have an elastic demand.

Explanation: The reason why they have an elastic demand is because an elastic demand means when an elastic product is defined as one where a change in the price of the product leads to a significant change in the demand for that product. Which the people waiting outside are buying the item due to the change in price.

Answer 2

Early shoppers have elastic demand because of the quantity demanded. That changes significantly as the result of a price change. Elastic means ‘sensitive’. Which means shoppers are responding to Black Friday deals currently happening so they can buy products they/want/need at the prices they wish to spend.