My whole life (all 20 short years of it), I've never understood the hype about Black Friday. Some people get SOOO into it. I've seen people with paps of the stores or malls that are highlighted and color-coded, and people bring walkie-talkies and it's this huge deal, but for what? Deals that will 9 out of 10 times stay the same for a few days or sometimes even weeks. Working in retail, I know how ridiculous people can get, and it's not pretty. Fights break out, people get upset, and sometimes, people get thrown out of stores because they cause too much trouble. Another thing that truly annoys me about black friday is the fact that stores open up earlier and earlier every year. The mall I work at opened at 8 pm THANKSGIVING NIGHT. People are turning what is supposed to be a family oriented day into more of a shopping day. People leave their families early just so they can score the huge deals on Thursday night. And I don't want to sound selfish, but do people think about how the employees feel? We don't like having to cut our holiday short just so we can come to work at 6 o'clock in the evening and stay open until midnight Friday. Some of my co-workers worked form 6 pm until 4 am, and then came back at 10. That's not fair at all. It will soon get to the point where stores are going to open Wednesday night and stay open until Friday, and people will forget about Thanksgiving all together.
It's not that big of a deal, people!
(Getting off my soap box now!)
-A
I know exactly what you mean. It irritates me so much! I just dont understand why anyone would go shopping as opposed to spending time with family.
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