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If aliens have their own version of Discovery Channel, it likely features humans during Black Friday.
Deep calm narrator voice: "...and then the bipedal mammals congregate around their watering holes, spontaneously engaging in displays of territorial behavior and quarreling in order to hoard items with which they attempt to attract mates annually. Note the stomping, swiping and aggressive posture as these creatures attempt to assert their strength."
On the plus side, that might just keep those aliens from wanting to invade our planet.
Common sense tells you that there are a limited amount of those special deal items....so if you pull up and the line is hundreds of people long....WHY WOULD YOU WAIT?
I've never shopped Black Friday. If I saw crowds like that anywhere, I'd leave. That doesn't excuse the stores from exposing their employees and customers to this type of danger.
I work in retail and my store opened at 6AM on thanksgiving day, I worked the night before from 11PM until 8AM, we were open overnight, I worked from 11PM until 7:30 this morning. We were crazy busy but we did not have any out of control incidents. There is a reason these things always happen at Wal-Mart, just look at who goes there.
I've never shopped Black Friday. If I saw crowds like that anywhere, I'd leave. That doesn't excuse the stores from exposing their employees and customers to this type of danger.
It's the customers that are causing the dangerous conditions....that is like blaming the electric company because your child stuck a fork in the outlet and got zapped
What is this, 1995? Why is anyone shopping for Christmas gifts at brick-and-mortar?
Time is money. If you spend hours driving to and back from the store, and lining up for opening and cashing out, how much is that worth in dollars per hour? Plus gas, parking, and so on.
No it isn't, unless the person buying the flat screen tv beats someone over head with it on the way home. But using the car dealer example, if the dealer was selling 2 brand new Lexus for $5 grand each but only on a certain day, and was preceded by a month long ad campaign, you would have the same senario. That was my point, the stores create the demand with huge discounts for a limited quantity starting on a specific day. That's going to bring out the worst kind of behavior from customers... almost guaranteed.
Well, notice where these brawls are happening. It isn't at the Lexus dealer, and it isn't even at the Walmart near a middle class neighborhood. These news people set up in areas where people are most likely to brawl, and I agree that the retailers are huge instigators of it by offering a limited supply of items for low prices. On the other hand, some of these people would never have the ability to purchase these items without the extreme discounts.
Well, notice where these brawls are happening. It isn't at the Lexus dealer, and it isn't even at the Walmart near a middle class neighborhood. These news people set up in areas where people are most likely to brawl, and I agree that the retailers are huge instigators of it by offering a limited supply of items for low prices. On the other hand, some of these people would never have the ability to purchase these items without the extreme discounts.
I did notice not a lot people out last night. We went to target to pick up an PS4 for $299, not only did they have about 25 left 2hr after they were open, tame and hardly anybody there.
This same deal was online so I think people took advantage of that and saved time.
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