I worked at Best Buy in the Seattle area during the first few black Fridays since it was first invented.
I think it was either the 2nd or 3rd black Fridays, some guy took all the open box stuff off the table and pushed it on the ground and got up on the table and attempted to start a riot because the line was super long.
I remembered I was trying to talk him down like, hey bro, nobody wants to be here. Just get back down.
So I told him Ill cash him out in my area, just get down. He agreed and got down. But security already called the cops and arrested him after he left the store.
My boss gave me a 20 dollar gift card. Lol.
Sounds like you had a pineapple situation on your hands
My point was Black Friday sucks for everyone. The store lost money, the customer are angry. Nobody is having a good time.
Ah, so I was kinda referring to the Chuck episode where Black Friday was utter chaos and they had a keyword to shut the entire store down
I guess it’s a bit of a niche reference though
now everyone is poor
Sheesh did no one even get stabbed for a 30% off of an item marked up 30% last week?
I know and no trampling. It’s a real shame this tradition is gone
We need new ways to thin the herd. This went away, they started printing danger labels on Dr. Pepper, we had people walking off cliffs for pokemon, but I’m not sure that exists anymore. How do we do it now? We could start bombing country music concerts but that just feels so artificial.
Isn’t that what your schools are for?
I’d prefer it to be non-innocent Americans, and those in schools are the only innocents here.
Good point. We need to ramp up the numbers. Charlie Kirk would be proud.
They tried to get this going in the UK too with stories about proles fighting over TVs, but we’ll only fight over stuff from the centre aisle at Aldi or at the footy.
I saved so.much money this year by not buying anything because I can’t even afford groceries
You’re hurting the economy 😭
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I saved so much money by cutting shitty people out of my life.
I went black friday shopping one time back around 2005 or so before online retail was a dominating force. I get why some people enjoy(ed) it and think fondly of it, but that was an experience I don’t want to repeat. All day long so many stores were packed with people, it was hard to get around and slow going. My anxiety is ramping up just thinking about it.
I ended up at Walmart yesterday morning (black friday). Not to shop the sales, but to get some much needed supplies. I was expecting it to be hectic and not looking forward to the trip. The place was barely more busy than any random weekday night. The only spot that was a bit crowded was at the entrance where they’d placed a bunch of pallets of TVs that constricted the space where people could move.
It was nothing like the great DVD stampede or the 256MB thumb drive fiasco of my first black friday shopping trip.
I worked retail in those days, it was crazy. It was common for a few fights to break out. One time I remember pulling out a new skid of Christmas trees and I didn’t even get to the main isle before customers mobbed the skid. My manager was so pissed off at me for not stopping them but how can one person stop dozens of people without any help. Black Friday was gross and BFCM is no better.
Worked at a Best Buy back in 2018. I’m 5’. I thought I was going to be trampled several times by aggressive packs of customers. I quit a few days later.
I went to a Target on black friday once and I’ll never do it again. I always thought the shit about screaming matches and physical fights were just anomalies that got blown out of proportion by the media. I changed my mind after watching adults snatch popular toys from each others hands and one guy getting a haymaker to the side of his head for trying to take a flat-screen out of another dude’s cart and put it in his.
It used to be the day businesses got their books in the black. Now that happens by March or April.
I’m in Australia and see ‘Black Friday’ sales all over the place. What the fuck are we even doing?
In the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, Black Friday is the day the tornado hit in 1987. Then this shit started overriding that day of remembrance.
Eat shit, America. I fucking hate you.
It’s not our fault your corporations are stealing our holidays.
Is this a picture from this year? I thought we all stopped doing this shit
Now people order on Amazon, so these fights are happening in the warehouses
But they might kick over the pee bottles!
Splash damage
I feel like not enough people understand what you’re saying or how real it is…
You might just be surprised!
But then webshops were invented, thus making trumping over each other for cheap tat obsolete.
Now its just potatoes here, and eggs there.
It’s just a waste of time now, I don’t even bother. Nothing big good gets a serious discount, it’s just crap I didn’t want in the first place that gets out on sale. Just before Christmas Day is the best time to get a deal, that’s the only time of year shops are really trying to get rid of stuff they’ve bought too much of.
I didn’t even get to watch the unwashed masses eat each other for cheap garbage that they don’t need!.. wtf?
Hail consumerism
