Anyone enjoy Black Friday nonsense?
 

Sears has announced they will be open on Thanksgiving Day for th first time in history...

Toys R Us has announced they are opening for Doorbusters at 10:00PM on Thanksgiving day....

:facepalm:


Where does this nonsense end??? Do people not have anything better to do in their lives but go shopping anymore??

I guess im a traditionalist and feel everything should be closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Their employees deserve the break.

**** that shit!

I dont work there, so I dont care. I've gone out on Black Friday one time. Never again.

Though I definitely agree with this, grocery stores and the like are open, so I guess they aren't being TOO evil.

But yeah, Black Friday is stupid.

I honestly think it is related to the economy. It seems like almost every company is having big discounts to try to keep sales levels up. This is just another example IMO.


And no, I have never done the Black Friday thing.

I never did a black friday thing and never will. I bet those sears and toys r us employees are pissed though.

So anybody doing an over-under for how many people will get killed during these black friday specials?

My wife digs the hell out of it...She's up and out early!! Never gone, don't plan to... I'm still sleeping off the turkey and beer coma.

I think its racist anyway.Where the hell is Chuck D when ya need him!!!!



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You can get some cheap shit if you don't mind the crowds and only buy the shit that is on sale.

Ugh. I'd sooner watch a KU basketball game with Wickedson.

I'd rather pay 2 times as much to be able to do it in peace some other time and not have to deal with the idiots.

My time is far more valuable. If you consider how much time you spent waiting in line versus the discount you'll get you found you made a poor value tradeoff. What I fine particularly hilarious and sad are those people who wait in line to get the deals and then sell them on craigslist after. YAY you waiting in line for 8 hrs and made $20.

I would pay to see that. ROFL

9 pm to 6 am the next morning at target in the snow to get my TV last year. Worth it. I really just wanted to do it for the experience of saying I did black Friday just once.

I've grown to loathe the entire concept of exchanging Christmas gifts.

Ill take yours back then

Oh, you got me something?!? PBJ

I'm pregnant, its yours!

Only kidding, **** that noise. I got you a Matt Cassel Calendar.

I like to go to the Wal Mart over in Council Bluffs and count moose knuckles, Dale Earnhrdt shirts and mullets on black friday.
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Christmas? Again???????

The only Thanksgiving shopping I ever do is online. Some retailers actually honor doorbuster prices online too.

I've never done it. Of course like I stop into little ceasers to pick up 2 liters of pop and shit like that because even the ****ing fast lane at hi vee is too much hassel for me

I've gotten sick of the whole getting gifts for everyone under the sun. My wife insists on getting a gift for our kids teachers and daycare providers. Then there are those annoying gift exchanges and ornament parties. I love Christmas and hate it at the same time. It is no longer just a family event.

That's pretty much me.I love it for the wife and kids but I hate all of the bullshit that comes with it.

And it's all a complete waste of money, you just end up buying crap that people don't need and will never use. "Hey great...another flashlight...I'll just throw that in the drawer with the other six I already have."

Thanksgiving is so overrated.

More people working , the better.

Love the sales!

Christmas isn't complete with empty chairs where your dead realatives used to sit.

Target is having some damn good deals this year. I don't do it though. I'm workin rather than buyin.

Eh, horseshit. Just because the stores are open an additional day doesn't mean people are suddenly going to spend more than they would have otherwise.

It shouldn't be about how many people you can get a gift for but that seems to be what it has become.

be careful, you're turning into a grumpy old man.

I have gone out for deals the last 4 or 5 years. Worth it, IMO. Prob won't do it this year. Lack of a job/extra money. Although, nowadays Amazon gets word of the other stores sales prior to Black friday and the whole week before they price match most of the shit, so just buy it off Amazon if you can.

really? wow, I would never have thought that. I will check that out indeed.

Yeah, you can find out what is on sale here http://bfads.net/

Then just go to Amazon about a week before to see if they've price matched yet

BLACK FRIDAY TIP: (At Target Stores)

Buy what you want from the Black Friday Ad on Wednesday before Thanksgiving and pay full price.

Their policy is that if something goes on sale up to 7 days after purchase, they will make a price adjustment with just your receipt in hand.

This way you beat the crowd, and get that 46 inch TV for 450 dollars.

(This coming from a former Target Store Manager)

I sure as hell wouldn't. :D

My wife in all her infinite wisdom went to Black Friday with her sisters when she was HAMMERED a couple years ago. She was pleasant the next morning.

Christmas as a religous holiday is good. Christmas as an opportunity to get with family is good. Christmas as a giant production and a competition for who gives the best gift is horrible. FFS if everyone would just get together, eat, enjoy family and praise the birth of Christ, life would be good. But it never seems to be that. Its always about how late we are or how somebody isn't doing it right. Or the presents look like crap. Or someones present sucks. Or. Or. Or. ... **** it all ends up being stressful and completely destroys the intent of the holiday.

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Have to work an 11 hour shift on Thanksgiving. **** Cracker Barrel.

I work that day. I fix retail computer equipment but the merchants won't call anything in unless its an emergency. There is too much money to be made and they don't want any distractions.

I used to never shop online. Now it's basically how I get every gift I give to people.



I figure we've got roughly a decade before Amazon and Google own absolutely everything.

I go out and fight the crowds for a few deals each year. It is kinda fun to me as it is a once a year deal. I have saved a few thousand dollars since I have done it and had fun at the same time. I am up early most days anyhow so it works for me.

I prefer working on holidays and volunteer for them everytime a paid holiday comes up. Making triple time goes alot further for my family than standing in queue for hours on end with people I don't know or care to know just to save an extra $20-30 bucks on a couple pieces of chinese made electronic junk.

That's why as an adult Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. You get together, eat a huge feast, watch football, maybe play catch or some board games, and everyone has the day off.

Well, I hate getting up early....I enjoy watching some of these folks go nuts, it's comical and I enjoy the about $800-1000 that I save for Christmas. I've only actually been once, but I enjoy my wife going. But it's like MMA on aisle 5 and that's pretty funny. For real.

It's the erasure of any and all accomplishments modern society has been able to achieve over the last 200 years.

Black friday is greed, violence, and super angry bulbous women of lower income jostling for cheap $#it that might work for 15 months.

At best.

Very very good post. Outstanding.

my wife recently became a manager of a retail store. it will be interesting to see how it all plays out. she's gotta be there 0330 hours.

:doh!:

you're a mean one, Mr.Grinch.

Two words: Body armor

or pepper spray!

Rausch does not do "subtle..."

Do you really save that much?

Heres a question for anyone....does shopping on Black Friday just encourage people to buy more stuff they dont need...or do you truly save money on your "Christmas List" items?

Like anyone is going to answer that honestly.

Why would he post that comment if he really didn't save that much?

Speaking of shopping....

I don't really think this deserves it's own thread, but last night I stopped by the local mall to pick up a watch battery, and afterward the wife and decided to wander around a bit to walk off dinner. On the second level in an area of the mall we rarely go to is an Abercrombie & Fitch store. I was still a good 20 yards away from it when the smell hit. Seriously, what is that ****ing cologne/perfume stench? I noticed the same noxious odor at another Abercrombie store in a different mall a few months ago. Good God, it's horrible. Obviously, since I'm not a 13-year-old girl who wants to look like a 20-year-old prostitute, I don't shop there, but how on earth could anybody find that smell appealing? If I worked somewhere near that store and had to smell that every day I think I'd firebomb the place. Yuck.

:Lin:

It seems so ironic that a store with a name that sounds like a stodgy English law firm sells that kind of clothing and smells like a French whorehouse.

Thats why i asked if people spend the extra money they "save" on stuff they dont need.

Back when I was in Jr. High the local Dillards REEKED of Drakkar.

They sprayed it on the clothes, socks, and even the ****ing hats and ties.

It was vulgar...

It's funny you should mention Drakkar. I had an old bottle of that crap fall out of my medicine cabinet once. It cracked the top of the bottle and I didn't realize it for a couple of months. At that point I made the mistake of pouring it down the drain. The alcohol had evaporated, and what hit my sink was the oily base that made my bathroom stink for several days. That's exactly what the Abercromie smell reminded me of.

My fiancee' and I went last year. It's so freaking nuts, but you get a lot of good deals and you get to knock out a lot of your family's gifts that day.

Oh, I'm sure when we are out we have picked up a few more things that we normally wouldn't have.

But in general we do 90% of our x-mas shopping on that day and save tons!
The itmes the people on our lists want are in the ads, we go get them early, you go back in the store later that same day and the prices are marked right back up! It's pretty simple to figure out.

Bump for 2011.

Now Wal Mart wont even close and some places like Target open at 10:00PM on Thanksgiving Night. Where does this insanity stop? :facepalm:

The funny thing is that businesses will keep pushing the start time up to "gain an advantage" and then eventually everything will be open on Thanksgiving and the whole "after Thanksgiving shopping rush" will die because there's nothing special about it. And we'll continue on our path toward wearing Mao jackets and marching lockstep in uniformity.

Thanksgiving is a national holiday and I can understand that, but Christmas is not.

my wife did it last year; she was out the door at 2:30am; and got home about 5 in the afternoon.

screw that. I'll just pay the difference. my time is worth more than whatever savings I would get.

Its those nasty 1%'ers spending all that cash on Asian Electronics and clothes and stuff!

Most major employers give their employees a paid holiday on Dec 25th. The day is yours to do with as you choose.

I've ventured out on Black Friday for the past five or six years any time I wasn't deployed when I thought there was something I just had to have. Of course I normally end up buying a buch of crap I don't need for other folks just because they would like it and "Hell, it's a good deal". I wouldn't go to Best Buy or something like that and camp out like some of those crazy ****ers (IMO) do and I'm normally not after the ______ that they only have 3 or 4 of in a store though.
The biggest things I can remember buying on Black Friday are a treadmill that was normally $1300 marked down to $700, a TV that was priced $899 down from $1299 the week before and some POS laptop for about $300 (but it got the kid through her first two years of college before everything had to be Apple).

I may venture out to a Wal-Mart (I know, I'm the devil) this Friday and try to buy a set of tires. They're $74 each rather than $159 so I can save a few hundred bucks and I need them anyway, so why not?

I've never bought anything on Black Friday, but I think I might do it this year. I'll probably go to Cabela's real early to pick up some winter clothes, like hoodies, a jacket, wool socks, and gloves. If I don't get pissed off from all the insane shoppers, I might head over to Nebraska Furniture Mart and possibly pick up a new laptop.

Two years ago (I think it was two) I saw two women get in a hell of a fight. Wal-Mart had some GPS units on sale and I though I would get one for each of my kids since they didn't have them.
There was a box with roughly 150 of them in the aisle and these two heifers were in front of it guarding it like there were only two of them and they were made of solid gold. When 5:00 comes one of them tears into the box and apparently elbowed the other and the fists started to fly. I just watched it for about 30 seconds or so in disbelief and a sweet looking little old (probably mid 60s) lady taps me on the shoulder and says something along the lines of, "Those two bitches have lost their minds, they aren't worth all of that. Oh would you mind handing me two of them". I couldn't help but laugh, so I handed her two, got mine and got the heck away from there.

Black Friday is awful, I hate going out, I usually stay home, if anything go grocery shopping but somewhere far far away from retail outlets. And this opening on hollidays is bullshit. They just keep moving it forward. Now most places are open the entire day. If people won't go they won't open, but I have a feeling people will.

After a day of eating turkey and pie, why the **** would I want to get up at dawn and deal with morons?

Cool, looks like I get an extra day of watching news reports of dipshits getting trampled over shit they don't need.

Quality entertainment.

Xmas is not a national holiday? Huh?

If its a new toy for me. Then yes I will go out & sit like a slob,at the local Bass Pro.
The kid,mom,sister,girlfreind,ect. YA RIGHT

It's the Debils holiday :fire:

It sucks that YouTube has been taking the fighting videos down, those were awesome hahahah.

He doesn't like it because Santa is fat.

Huh? That's interesting. I remember my dad working for a federal agency called the United States Post Office, & IIRC he got every Christmas Day off with pay.

It is a federal holiday. However, it's not in the same realm as New Years, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving, etc. in that not all Americans celebrate Christmas.