and its partner bank. The shopping bonanza ended prematurely, leaving the retailer, raking in $40 million daily, and the bank, managing a $10 billion portfolio, out in the cold with no festive cheer. Instead of profits, they got chaos and crashing servers.
Meanwhile, the average Russian consumer is embarking on a survival quest: "How to live without cashback and loans?" Forget designer coats; it’s time to repurpose those old newspapers into stylish, multi-functional layers. Inflation, already running wild and ignoring a 21% interest rate, is hinting that soon rubles might work better as kindling for the samovar than currency.
The takeaway? When your economy's circling the drain, even Black Friday can't save you. And while they’re busy scrambling, we’re making sure their economy stays on its crash course—because why stop at one bad Friday?
