Black Friday madness

[Toyman_Chris]

I call it "crack Friday". As that is what most folks seems to be on that tends those so called sales.

I could maybe understand if it was for a Super Collector action figure or something, but a waffle maker? really? Chances are great that the waffle maker will end up at Goodwill before the year is up.

waffles are a food staple!

[livnxxxl]

I call it "crack Friday". As that is what most folks seems to be on that tends those so called sales.

I could maybe understand if it was for a Super Collector action figure or something, but a waffle maker? really? Chances are great that the waffle maker will end up at Goodwill before the year is up.

[Adam West]

I remember going to Wally World the first year the Nintendo Wii came out, they were receiving 50 of them and 500 people showed up. Fights were starting to break out and they had to call the police to keep things civil. I vowed that would be the last time I would do anything like that again and have stuck with it. As far as the lady with pepper spray; I'm sure in addition to potential jail time, a civil suit will be filed against her and Wal-Mart. She will probably lose everything financially if she has anything.

[kingdom warrior]

Pretty much.

This compulsion people in this country seem to have with buying things is truly staggering. I'm sure this type of behavior has gone on for quite some time, I've just never been to a Black Friday sale to see it first hand. To a large degree, I think the United States is quickly becoming a nation of insular, unhealthy, self indulgent, technology mongers, with no REAL idea of the trouble this country truly is in as a result of this behavior. The younger generation is the worst; The 13-19 year olds with the ipods, iphones, headphones, video games, etc, who as long as their phone works and they can text with their friends 24 hours a day from their car, school, taco bell and the mall, life is good. These kids are so content being mediocre and getting by with the least amount of "work" they need to do to become a decent, upstanding member of society, I seriously-- SERIOUSLY, fear our future as a nation. It's not only the kids either-- What about all their parents who had NO business whatsoever buying a 350k house when they make 40 grand a year??? Why are you getting foreclosed on? Why is the housing market so bad? The economy in general? Hmmmmnnn??? Bueller, Bueller... Anyone? That video is merely a precursor to the mayhem that will ensue when all these idiots are running the place in 30 years.

Here's another example for you-- TRUE story; A buddy of mine owns a car body shop and has for the past 26 years. We went to lunch a few months ago and I asked him how business was. He replied; "Best it's ever been. As long as these kids keep texting while they're driving, I'll be busy..." He said that right around the time texting became popular, his business started increasing. Now, he's 200% of where he was 7 years ago. Bigger shop, more employees, etc...

Sign of the times, or sign of stupid people?

SC

I couldn't have said it better, I've been pretty much saying the same thing to people I know. Sad to say.........

[torgospizza]

...if kids today are so bad it's only because our generation made terrible parents and role models. So, if anyone is to blame it's us.

Werewolf, you sound like John Cheese.

[Werewolf]

So much negativity. I tend to look on the brightside of things. I also seem to remember people complaining about our generation being lazy, video game addicts too. So I don't get too stressed out about it. But if you really want to be a downer, another way to look at it is, if kids today are so bad it's only because our generation made terrible parents and role models. So, if anyone is to blame it's us.

[MegoMark71]

I blame the stores for all of it. Doorbusters are one of the worst parts of the holiday. I hate the people that do it. My wife works with one of these types. All work day Tuesday she was talking about how she loved it and has and will throw some elbows. She is a tiny little thing, maybe 5"1 and 90 lbs wet.

[doctor09210]

i went to go see a movie at 7pm on thursday, right next to best buy and the line went down the block,
i come out at 10 to find that i went down 2 blocks,
i did not read the ad seeing what they had on sale but i went anyway the next day, whatever they had on sale was only about 5 dollars off on 5-6 items, and i bought nothing,

so what the hell were they waiting to buy?

[Nostalgiabuff]

Sign of the times, or sign of stupid people?

unfortunately Sandy, in this case I think they go hand in hand. I see it at work as well, everything is being dumbed down. it's like, instead of correcting or getting rid of the weak links, corporate america has decided to just dumb everything down in order to cater to the week links

[steelcouch]

Right on the Money!

Pretty much.

This compulsion people in this country seem to have with buying things is truly staggering. I'm sure this type of behavior has gone on for quite some time, I've just never been to a Black Friday sale to see it first hand. To a large degree, I think the United States is quickly becoming a nation of insular, unhealthy, self indulgent, technology mongers, with no REAL idea of the trouble this country truly is in as a result of this behavior. The younger generation is the worst; The 13-19 year olds with the ipods, iphones, headphones, video games, etc, who as long as their phone works and they can text with their friends 24 hours a day from their car, school, taco bell and the mall, life is good. These kids are so content being mediocre and getting by with the least amount of "work" they need to do to become a decent, upstanding member of society, I seriously-- SERIOUSLY, fear our future as a nation. It's not only the kids either-- What about all their parents who had NO business whatsoever buying a 350k house when they make 40 grand a year??? Why are you getting foreclosed on? Why is the housing market so bad? The economy in general? Hmmmmnnn??? Bueller, Bueller... Anyone? That video is merely a precursor to the mayhem that will ensue when all these idiots are running the place in 30 years.

Here's another example for you-- TRUE story; A buddy of mine owns a car body shop and has for the past 26 years. We went to lunch a few months ago and I asked him how business was. He replied; "Best it's ever been. As long as these kids keep texting while they're driving, I'll be busy..." He said that right around the time texting became popular, his business started increasing. Now, he's 200% of where he was 7 years ago. Bigger shop, more employees, etc...

Sign of the times, or sign of stupid people?

SC

That was a great read!

[Cmonster]

is this really what this country has become? a bunch of drooling, coniving lunatics just to get a good deal?

Pretty much.

This compulsion people in this country seem to have with buying things is truly staggering. I'm sure this type of behavior has gone on for quite some time, I've just never been to a Black Friday sale to see it first hand. To a large degree, I think the United States is quickly becoming a nation of insular, unhealthy, self indulgent, technology mongers, with no REAL idea of the trouble this country truly is in as a result of this behavior. The younger generation is the worst; The 13-19 year olds with the ipods, iphones, headphones, video games, etc, who as long as their phone works and they can text with their friends 24 hours a day from their car, school, taco bell and the mall, life is good. These kids are so content being mediocre and getting by with the least amount of "work" they need to do to become a decent, upstanding member of society, I seriously-- SERIOUSLY, fear our future as a nation. It's not only the kids either-- What about all their parents who had NO business whatsoever buying a 350k house when they make 40 grand a year??? Why are you getting foreclosed on? Why is the housing market so bad? The economy in general? Hmmmmnnn??? Bueller, Bueller... Anyone? That video is merely a precursor to the mayhem that will ensue when all these idiots are running the place in 30 years.

Here's another example for you-- TRUE story; A buddy of mine owns a car body shop and has for the past 26 years. We went to lunch a few months ago and I asked him how business was. He replied; "Best it's ever been. As long as these kids keep texting while they're driving, I'll be busy..." He said that right around the time texting became popular, his business started increasing. Now, he's 200% of where he was 7 years ago. Bigger shop, more employees, etc...

Sign of the times, or sign of stupid people?

SC

[The Toyroom]

Our local Wal-Mart (Rome NY) was one of the ones that made national news because of some violence....apparently one shopper was stabbed but left on their own before EMTs and police arrived. An employee and a customer were shoved to the ground and were taken to the hospital for back pain. One person was arrested for disorderly conduct. All of this was over those pre-paid touch screen cell-phones for $35 that went on sale at midnight.

We were in the store from 10:00 to about 11:30 and it was ridiculous. People were setting up camp 25 to 50 people deep all around the electronic pallets that were tapped off. You couldn't cut through a good portion of the store without taking the long way around the perimeter. I would say that about 75% of the people in the store at that time were scumbags from the little hick towns that are about 10+ miles away that don't have any retailers in their area. So it doesn't surprise me that this went down...

[Nostalgiabuff]

Fact: Not everyone that shops at Wal-Mart is a loser, but every loser shops at Wal-Mart.

well said. I very rarely shop in WalMart, but only because the nearest one is 45 minutes away......but after this kind of crap happening every year and always at Wally world, I think i will boycot the store altogether

Target is better anway

[ctc]

>is this really what this country has become? a bunch of drooling, coniving lunatics just to get a good deal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVKaemIz860

Don C.

[alex]

I dont really know much about this "black friday" apart its some crazy sale. I spoke to a friend yesterday if she had been, she just laughed at me saying, you have to be crazy to go to one of those, saying people die every year, I just couldnt believe it.