Black Friday Horribleness

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December 02, 2008
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Why does the morning after Thanksgiving have to be ruined by a soul-less shopping day for steals and deals? For whatever it's worth, Thanksgiving has this do-gooder be thankful feel to it, even with the gluttony surrounding the meal. But then everyone rushes home to go to sleep early just to awaken at 5am for free crap, cheap crap, useless crap and maybe a few department store Xmas presents. WHYYYY? Do you have horror stories? Pictures? Deals you must share with us? If there were a Guidespot category for "suckiness" I would put this guide in there.

Concord Mills

Is “Concord Mills” a band because this looks like a concert? No. It’s a mall in North Carolina and this is what Black Friday looks like there. Um, horrible! It’s not even LIGHT out yet. Every single one of these people is wondering, “Is the $9.99 (formerly $13.99) Celine Dion cd going to be worth it?”

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Electronics and Gadgety $tuff

I recall Best Buy and Circuit City as being the absolute craziest on Black Friday. Craziest=Want to kill myself the most. When the doors would burst open at 7am sharp, after a bleary-eyed hour packed like sardines into a store vestibule with a hundred other people who didn’t have time to shower or brush their teeth, they didn’t even have what you were looking for! Pointing to the circular, you exclaim, “But it says it right HERE!”
Read the fine print: selection will vary from store to store. Maybe you still got a free donut or ugly Christmas ornament out of it though?

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: by kendram 09/01/2009 Show 1 Reply

I had bruises on the back of my legs from people running me over with baskets..I was only there to watch the craziness and was standing as far out of way as i could.One woman jumped on a pallet of digital picture frames as they were unwrapping it and was screaming “they are all mine everyone back off!”..it was hilarious

: by karey_ann 12/02/2008 Reply

Black Friday is horribleness!! I worked corporate retail for a company called lululemon athletica for five years. FIVE YEARS of waking up at 4am-ish to prepare my stores for Black Friday. This year, I very purposefully drank to much on Thanksgiving, woke up at 10am, got myself a latte, and sat in my car in the Circuit City parking lot listening to public radio. It was the best Black Friday EVER!! Thanks for your guide highlighting the madness!

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