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Playstation 2. God, that one was crazy.
Black Friday off to a Great Start!
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Playstation 2. God, that one was crazy.
Oy, yeah I remember that one.
I was working retail when the Oopsie Daisy dolls first came out. Shops couldn't keep these buggers in stock and the manufacturer was producing them so quickly that quality control was, shall we say, a bit lax. Parents who had the smarts to check that the dolls worked before giving them to their kids for Christmas returned these dolls in droves due to the dolls not working properly. My personal favourite was one doll which arrived at the shop from the central warehouse headless. Thank heavens for see-through packaging or we may have unknowingly sold it, though I admit to finding the thought amusing.
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Hordes of people beating down the Sears door at 6 AM and me holding the vouchers. Gah.
Oopsie Daisy!
Black Friday is nothing more than the complete fetishization of shopping, and demonstrative of how truly sick our culture has become.
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Like I said...Baaaaaaaa!!!!
I picked up 4 movies on dvd for $20 today at Walmart. I went on Friday afternoon, so there weren't as many people and I didn't have to deal with the crazy crowds.
I heard a fight broke out earlier over some stupid shit, someone was actuallly cleaning blood off the ground as I went to get my stuff.
I heard a fight broke out earlier over some stupid shit, someone was actuallly cleaning blood off the ground as I went to get my stuff.
I picked up 4 movies on dvd for $20 today at Walmart. I went on Friday afternoon, so there weren't as many people and I didn't have to deal with the crazy crowds. I heard a fight broke out earlier over some stupid shit, someone was actuallly cleaning blood off the ground.
It ain't True American Consumerism until blood is spilled.
God Bless Capitalism, where citizens actually injure each other for the privilege of buying merchandise.
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Ladies and gentlemen... I give you the 99% providing endless hour of entertainment and financial assistance to the 1%.
Here's the follow-up on Black Friday craziness. Apparently the woman with the pepper spray turned herself in, but is not being identified.
As for the rest, just your avergae shooting, stabbing, and police beating up old men who try to stop their grandchildren from being trampled to death over a video game.
http://news.yahoo.com/alleged-la-area-pepper-spraying-shopper-surrenders-164732499.html
Happy Birthday, Jesus!
As for the rest, just your avergae shooting, stabbing, and police beating up old men who try to stop their grandchildren from being trampled to death over a video game.
http://news.yahoo.com/alleged-la-area-pepper-spraying-shopper-surrenders-164732499.html
Happy Birthday, Jesus!
Many, many years ago, when I was a young, about 8 months pregnant, mother-to-be, I decided to go to a big Kmart sale because cloth nappies (diapers) were being offered at a very cheap price.
I was only 19 so didn't have any real experience of sales. My mother-in-law told me to get there before opening time.
I was surprised to find a whole herd of people, mainly women, already there. There was a bit of shoving going on and, as I was quite wary of shoving crowds due to being trampled on during an AC/DC concert a couple of years before, I decided to stay in the background.
The doors opened and the crowd swarmed in. I leisurely followed at my own pace. I managed to grab 3 dozen nappies without any problem as they didn't seem to be in any great demand.
I was pushing my shopping trolley to the checkouts when I happened to see two very well dressed and middle-class looking women having a tug-of-war with a set of tea towels. FUCKING TEA TOWELS, I thought to myself, THEY ARE FIGHTING OVER FUCKING TEA TOWELS. I started to laugh uncontrollably so much so that a sales assistant came over and asked if I was OK. The women must of realised I was laughing at them and they glared at me. The sales assistant helped me to the checkout and I managed to explain to her why I was laughing and she said they was always a lot of stupid behaviour at big sales.
I have never been to the start of a sale since.
I was only 19 so didn't have any real experience of sales. My mother-in-law told me to get there before opening time.
I was surprised to find a whole herd of people, mainly women, already there. There was a bit of shoving going on and, as I was quite wary of shoving crowds due to being trampled on during an AC/DC concert a couple of years before, I decided to stay in the background.
The doors opened and the crowd swarmed in. I leisurely followed at my own pace. I managed to grab 3 dozen nappies without any problem as they didn't seem to be in any great demand.
I was pushing my shopping trolley to the checkouts when I happened to see two very well dressed and middle-class looking women having a tug-of-war with a set of tea towels. FUCKING TEA TOWELS, I thought to myself, THEY ARE FIGHTING OVER FUCKING TEA TOWELS. I started to laugh uncontrollably so much so that a sales assistant came over and asked if I was OK. The women must of realised I was laughing at them and they glared at me. The sales assistant helped me to the checkout and I managed to explain to her why I was laughing and she said they was always a lot of stupid behaviour at big sales.
I have never been to the start of a sale since.
As for the rest, just your avergae shooting, stabbing, and police beating up old men who try to stop their grandchildren from being trampled to death over a video game.
http://news.yahoo.com/alleged-la-area-pepper-spraying-shopper-surrenders-164732499.html
Happy Birthday, Jesus!
I'm not surprised at all to see that the Maricopa County Sherrif's office beat up a grandfather there....
I have a very nice plot of rich land on Atlantis I'd like to sell these people... but they've probably already bought it.
I LOVE Black Friday. Sleep in. Eat pie for breakfast. Lounge in jammies all day.
Exactly.
That's the smart way to roll.
My parents apparently inadvertently participated in Black Friday; they stopped at Whole Foods for groceries, and brought home salad bar/hot food bar boxes, which were apparently 25% for Black Friday. 
I'm perplexed every year when news outlets universally parrot the usual explanation for the name of Black Friday (that it puts retailers in the black). One would think that at least one major news organization would fact-check the explanation, but every year they all mention something along the usual lines.
The name is actually in reference to the horrors of shopping (or even going out) on that day. It originated with the Philadelphia Police in the 1960s, who used it to describe the traffic jams and mobs seen on the day after Thanksgiving, and spread elsewhere, being taken up by cab and bus drivers by the mid-1970s. The "in the black" explanation didn't even appear until the 1980s.
I'm perplexed every year when news outlets universally parrot the usual explanation for the name of Black Friday (that it puts retailers in the black). One would think that at least one major news organization would fact-check the explanation, but every year they all mention something along the usual lines.
The name is actually in reference to the horrors of shopping (or even going out) on that day. It originated with the Philadelphia Police in the 1960s, who used it to describe the traffic jams and mobs seen on the day after Thanksgiving, and spread elsewhere, being taken up by cab and bus drivers by the mid-1970s. The "in the black" explanation didn't even appear until the 1980s.