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What are you going to buy this Dark Friday?
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Black Friday Shopping is coming. As always, it tastes like dead...
I want to know what every one is planning to buy.Here is my shopping list.
http://www.globalgmail.com/upload/BFridayList.pdf
LOL. Any feedback is welcome.
I want to know what every one is planning to buy.Here is my shopping list.
http://www.globalgmail.com/upload/BFridayList.pdf
LOL. Any feedback is welcome.
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Oh, wait, hold on. You mean games. Well then I guess Fire Emblem maybe.
edit: oh games, probably bioshock.
OK, enough off topic. Now that I think about it I probably won't buy anything on Friday, if only because big groups of people scare me. Now Saturday, that's fair game. I'm kinda torn between BWii and Radiant Dawn, actualy.
Somebody in retail explain to me the horrors of black friday.
People get trampled, that's why. Almost every year there's at least one person who dies directly as a result of bargain hunting on Black Friday. People rush for cheap DVD players or donkey scrotum or whatever and disregard human life.
It's the first "official" shopping day of the Christmas season. Most people go out to start their holiday shopping that day anyway (since a lot of them have it off from work), so stores offer exceptional sales to get even more people out and shopping.
For your average worker drone, imagine your standard 6 hour shift, suddenly stretched out to a 12 hour shift, and instead of opening at 10 in the morning, you're opening at 3 in the morning (or in the case of my previous job, midnight). And imagine the busiest moments of a normal shift, but instead of them coming in waves and dying down after half an hour or so, it just keeps going, never dying down for all 12 hours of your shift. Now also imagine the people that you're dealing with didn't make it in time for the super-awesome-extra-spectacular sale you were offering, but that's the sole fucking reason (they claim) they came out today. They're already bitchy from having to maneuver around the other hundred people in your store, and now you're telling them they don't get the $20 DVD player because your store only got 3 in, and instead of accepting this fact, they react like you're the one personally responsible for ruining their Christmas now.
God.
Customers can be real asses sometimes. I'm so glad I don't work retail anymore.
As for Black Friday sales, nothing really caught my eye in any of the flyers.
I might head over to Gamestop for a $20 Hitman Trilogy and to check out their "Buy 2, get 1 free" deal on used games from Friday to Sunday.
I did see Sears will be selling an $1800 50" Plasma HDTV. The descriptor was conspicuously absent of the word "1080p" or for that matter any resolution, so I'm thinking it's probably 720p, 1080i at most.
Someone here on the forums got tazered once. When they came around, they saw a little old lady rushing away with the DVD player they'd had in their arms.
Although i'm a server and don't have to deal with the shit retail does, black friday means super cheap people.
I'll be lucky to be breaking $60 that day.
I may poke around the shops simply because I live literally next door to one of the major malls here, but nothing worth getting bent out of shape for.
So, anyhoo, I'm starting at around 2:00AM I'm hitting Staples, Best Buy, and Fry's Electronics, in that order. What routes are you guys planning?
My manager at that time tackled the fucker and the po-po showed up like 2min later.
Anywho, not only did I watch an old lady get trampled in which I was the only one to push people out of her way and help her up (well, with the help of my friend after he noticed it too), but I also watched four fist fights happen within 10 minutes over trivial shit like dvds, I think they were House Season 1 and 2 for like...10$ each.
yeah I'm really not looking forward to it.
on the plus side, radioshack is shitty so we don't get that busy.
It gets worse. About four years ago, channel 5 covered a man that had a heart attack in a Meijer store in my city on Black Friday. Other shoppers blocked the way for the paramedics to get to him, and when they finally got through and pronounced him dead, somebody shouted, "Unclaimed merchandise!" and started going through his cart.
BF didn't used to be the megasale consumer orgy it is today. It used to be that big department stores ruled retail and everyone would rush a Sears or JC Penny for Christmas shopping. With the advent of malls and big box specialty retailers like Best Buy things have changed. Instead of a handful of large retailers in an area competing for shopping dollars there's dozens of large retailers competing for dollars. They pick a bunch of big tickets to do massive price cuts on and make up the difference in volume and attachment sales. Ohh, you got a 42" Plasma TV, here's some premium[/p] HDMI cables for $80 that you need for it! Wal-Mart proceeded to bring a similar experience to thousands of smaller towns all over the country. The Wal-Mart sales are particularly insidious because they put things on sale they're already planning to drop the price on in the following quarter. That $40 DVD player that got dropped to $20 on BF will end up being $20 in late January/early February after the return/gift certificate season dies down.
I worked too many holiday seasons in retail for my taste. I still get a little jittery in large crowds. Anymore I've become a fan of Cyber Monday, the Monday following BF that is emerging as a huge online shopping day. Instead of waking up at 4am to line up only to be trampled by soccer moms a lot of people are shopping online from home over the BF weekend (and following Monday). I'm holiday shopping entirely online this year like I have for the past few years. I just tell my friends and family to expect United Parcel Santa and I'm done with it. Besides being less stressful for me I rack up lots of reward points on my credit card.
There were so many people that got trapped on different sides of the store for extended periods of time.
And once I finally got off of my 9 hour shift, it took 45 fucking mins just get out of the mother fucking parking lot, something that normally takes about a min and a half.
Bah, I feel the pain of all you working retail, and I doubt I'll ever go shopping on Black Friday anytime soon because of it.
Actually, I might have considered it, but I'll be traveling that day anyway. I saved over $100 flying late Friday rather than early Saturday.