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Random Topics - Black Friday
Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On this day, most major retailers open extremely early, often at 4 a.m., or earlier, and offer promotional sales to kick off the shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many British Commonwealth countries. Black Friday is not actually a holiday, but most non-retail employers give their employees the day off, increasing the number of potential shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year.
Wikipedia Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29
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Black Firday, a day where people trample others for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have. -- Submitted By: (cartooner) on May 18, 2013, 9:16 pm - (0 votes)
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I feel for the employees of the big stores like Walmart and Meijers (Midwest USA) where the company decided a couple years back that they would stay open on Thanksgiving and through till Friday. So basically they decided that the owners get to enjoy Thanksgiving, but the workers have to suck it up and stay at work. -- Submitted By: (rgphillips1971) on May 16, 2013, 7:13 am - (0 votes)
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I went shopping on Black Friday one time many years ago, and I'm still psychologically scarred to this day. All I wanted to do was get some blank VHS tapes for my dad to record Jaguars games, and I stood in line for near 2 hours just to get through checkout! I swear everybody ahead of me in line was buying up the whole inventory and the people working at checkout were half-asleep. Wild horses couldn't make me go shopping on Black Friday from that day forth. -- Submitted By: (BigAl) on January 8, 2012, 9:20 am - (0 votes)
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I would never, EVER shop at a store during Black Friday. Cheaper goods? Ha. Good luck finding one after they've just sold out. Better luck finding a parking space. If you don't have claustrophobia, you will after drowning in crowds of customers in a feeding frenzy. Add in stampedes willing to trample people just to get the stuff they want, and voila! The true meaning of the holidays is eclipsed by greed, materialism, selfishness. There should be riot control: workers equipped with shields, vests, mace, etc. -- Submitted By: (Robert) on December 1, 2011, 12:43 pm - (1 votes)
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Good question, DolFan.
I remember going to a science museum back in the mid 1970's that predicted that folks would never have to leave their homes once this technology happened. I guess folks got tired of staring at their terminals all day and decided being in a mob scene was less tedious. Me, I'll do what I always do- wait until I get an offday in the middle of the week when there are fewer shoppers and go to local stores instead of chains when possible. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on November 30, 2011, 9:35 am - (0 votes)
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Remember when shopping online was supposed to render what happens every year on Black Friday obsolete? Whatever happened to that? -- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on November 29, 2011, 12:17 am - (0 votes)
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So... go to a store at midnight where the stores are only going to put out 20 or so of an item they probably got 200 of in the back stock room, and the said item is something you don't need, or is out of date, and to add, they whip the crowds into a frenzy saying you MUST have this!!! No thank you. Anybody who goes out Black Friday shopping, even well after midnight, is in need of a mental checkup. -- Submitted By: (PYLrulz) on November 28, 2011, 1:48 am - (1 votes)
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kingbk,jp and the 2nd(), I TOTALLY agree! In addition to the horrible crowds and petulant behavior exhibited, what made this one REALLY bone was the violence that happened in various locales. Really, PEPPER SPRAY on other shoppers so one could try to get an X-Box game?! If what's alleged is true, that's so WRONG and, in addition to hoping the legal book gets thrown at the alleged perp, I hope her MOTHER bawls her out for shaming their family! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on November 27, 2011, 11:25 am - (0 votes)
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Black Friday is a day one boning for me. I don't see any reason to be out there in the wee hours of the morning just to take advantage of a "special" sale. And I thought the craze over Cabbage Patch dolls back in the 80s was bad enough. -- Submitted By: () on November 25, 2011, 11:18 pm - (1 votes)
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No thanks, I choose NOT to participate in this. I used to work retail so I've seen it from the other side. The arguments, the fights, the people acting like Two year olds over who gets the blue play-doh, camping out for a week. One year, a girl I worked with was trampled and all she did was stock merchandise. I'm glad I was able to talk my wife into NOT doing this. -- Submitted By: (Jp) on November 25, 2011, 2:31 pm - (2 votes)
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Bone the Fish? NO WAY! It's the one day of the year you can watch people do things that any other time of the year NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHT MIND would even THINK of doing! Just treat it as the event it has become and go out and have some FUN! -- Submitted By: () on November 24, 2011, 3:59 am - (-1 votes)
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Ugh. People running over each other and standing in ridiculous lines to get junk for a lower price. Consumerism, materialism and greed at its worst. The whole thing makes me sick. I like the Christmas holiday, but people spending money they don't have on stuff they don't need tells me most people forget the true meaning of the holiday. Hell, with Black Friday, people are forgetting Thanksgiving. Most of the time it's the simple things like spending time with family that matters most. I'm glad my family has stayed close and celebrates the holidays together. In other words... day one for Black Friday. -- Submitted By: (kingbk) on November 22, 2011, 11:34 pm - (3 votes)
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