Re: Black Friday Mob Scenes
Re: Black Friday Mob Scenes
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• From: aol.com@net−user. • Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:29:36 −0600 On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:52:49 −0800, Scott en Aztlán wrote: >Yet another reason NOT to shop on the day after Thanksgiving. I >personally spent a pleasant day at home and didn't even set foot >inside a store. Too much MFFY (Me First, Fuck You) behavior − pushing, >shoving, line−cutting, fist fights − among all those idiots who have >been up all night waiting to save $10 on a plasma TV. > >http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4164473 > >Extra officers were called to a Wal−Mart store Friday morning in >Renton, Washington. They were needed to help control crowds of >shoppers who pushed their way into the electronics department shortly >after the doors opened. > >The shoppers knocked counters out of position as they fought over a >limited supply of laptop computers. > >At a suburban Cleveland Wal−Mart, one man says it got "a little rough" >when shoppers flooded the electronics aisles and battled for >discounted items. Another man in the store says it was a typical day >after Thanksgiving, with people "pushing and bumping." > >Retailers hope the big crowds set a positive tone for the entire >holiday season. > >http://www.wsusignpost.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/11/28/438a5a1b43d51 > >At Circuit City in Riverdale, the line began Thursday at 5 p.m. with a >row of tents and sleeping bags for anxious buyers. Wal−Mart was open >for 24 hours, but their sales opened at 5 a.m. The parking lots were >full and people camped inside the store next to their item of choice. > >Marty Schroader, WSU student and former student activities adviser, >was one of the first in line at the Layton ShopKo and decided to >continue to capitalize on sales offered the day after Thanksgiving. >The line of tenacious shoppers began just after 3 a.m. and the store >opened its doors at 5 a.m. to welcome the estimated 500 to 700 people. Re: Black Friday Mob Scenes 1
Re: Black Friday Mob Scenes > >?This is pretty fun coming early to get the great deals,? Schroader >said. ?The only problem is when the people in the parking lot rush the >door and cut in line. I hate that!? > >The ?mob mentality? associated with Black Friday was apparent >throughout the United States > >In Minnesota, local news stations filmed people getting trampled at >the front entrance as hundreds poured into a local Wal−Mart. Extreme >measures were used in the northwest where some stores used police to >control the mob. One policeman in Washington used pepper spray to stop >shoppers from endangering each other. > >?It?s interesting to watch the change of peoples? personalities as >soon as the door opens,? said Justin Clarke, WSU senior who arrived in >the line at Staples at 4:40 a.m. ?The guy you?re standing next to >turns into your competition to get what you want. The first person >that was in line is now probably 10 people behind because he?s been >mulled over.? Now you know why there is so much spam on the net. Advertising makes some people go insane. Then there's the rest of us who know all their tricks. This year I did a test. I went to Walmart the day before Thanksgiving. I got their flyer for the black friday nonsense. I saved it. On Sunday (after the entire Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend), I went back to Walmart, and went early in the morning (3am) when the store was real dead. I took along that flyer. I looked around the store and several times asked a clerk if they still had any (*whatever*) left. Surprise! They still had 95% of the items, and they were all still the sale price. In fact, the only thing they did not have was a computer advertised on that flyer, and the cheap DVD's were picked over (as a clerk told me). Of course, how many of those insane black friday shoppers really wasted much time digging thru a mixed up pile of approx. $3.50 DVDs that normally sell for $5.99. Most are out for the big ticket things, which meant that the small items were sold later in the weekend. I should note that I looked for about half the items on that flyer. .
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