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It is now Black Friday. Enjoy being stampeded as you try get something at Wal-Mart.
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drove by the front entrance of a best buy around 6pm earlier tonight and i saw 3-5 people outside by the door, i thought it seemed kind of quiet assuming that theyd be opening latr in the night but i just released that they dont open until this morning and its been cold and snowing outside. why?
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Nov 28, 2014 08:24
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My folks were discussing getting a $120 paper shredder for $20, then came to their senses when they realized they'd have to camp outside of a Staples to get it. They opted to sleep in and have Belgian waffles for breakfast instead.
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Nov 28, 2014 08:33
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Neurion posted:My folks were discussing getting a $120 paper shredder for $20, then came to their senses when they realized they'd have to camp outside of a Staples to get it. They opted to sleep in and have Belgian waffles for breakfast instead. do they know about "Cyber" Monday? they could probably get a similar deal on a shredder if they are willing to wait a couple days or pay for shipping (if they cant have it sent to a store for pickup). you should let them in on the secret in return for their Belgian waffles.
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Nov 28, 2014 08:58
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Mariana Horchata posted:do they know about "Cyber" Monday? they could probably get a similar deal on a shredder if they are willing to wait a couple days or pay for shipping (if they cant have it sent to a store for pickup). you should let them in on the secret in return for their Belgian waffles. What the gently caress is this waiting poo poo?! THat's unamerican! I'm getting my paper shredder if I have to shove your face into it first to make you let go of it you loving communist dick babg
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Nov 28, 2014 17:19
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Black Fridays are like looting stores the legal way. Sure your still forcing doors open and tearing things apart to get what you want. But at least you pay for the item on your way out. I never been to a mass looting event, I wonder how respectful they are? do you fight over the big screen tv's, or would you be happy with a fistful of monster cables? I just went shopping and saw two abulances, one was at a mall, to be fair the other was at the dairy queen, gotta get them deals.
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Nov 28, 2014 18:12
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Black Friday is in the UK now as well. Go away you fat fucks. I'll be deep in the cold ground before I ever celebrate your lovely 4th of July and thanksgiving wankfests.
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Nov 28, 2014 18:54
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/28/black-friday-england_n_6236136.html Why are you following us GB? We're not going to a good place.
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Nov 28, 2014 18:55
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Explain to me how that's supposed to work. Is it like an actual event without context? Black Friday here in the US is a part of the extended Thanksgiving weekend in the US. Like... Black Friday in the UK makes zero sense.
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Nov 28, 2014 18:57
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ChuckHead posted:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/28/black-friday-england_n_6236136.html lol The practice of offering bargain basement prices the day after Thanksgiving has spread across the Atlantic, with some retailers opening overnight to lure shoppers. Police were called early Friday morning to help maintain security at some supermarkets and shopping outlets that offered deep discounts starting at midnight.
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Nov 28, 2014 18:57
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See at least the us has an excuse, that's just pathetic
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Nov 28, 2014 18:58
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Mange Mite posted:See at least the us has an excuse, that's just pathetic The US doesn't have an excuse, unless the excuse is 'being a dumbfuck' in which case the US and England are the same; hth.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:00
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Captain Candiru posted:Explain to me how that's supposed to work. Is it like an actual event without context? Shops here have Black Friday signs and massive discounts, and there's been several riots already. It makes zero sense anyway. From what I've read, the electronics are all really b-grade stuff made just for today and would never have been sold at full price to begin with.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:00
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I heard a nearby retailer had people punching each other over crock pots. I kind of wish I could have witnessed that.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:04
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I'd imagine the fact that supermarkets are being eaten alive by discount retailers, and general-goods shops by the Internet, has absolutely nothing to do with this attempt to market novelty, basic greed, and spectacle to a mass audience
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Nov 28, 2014 19:05
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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I went.     loving animals, they should have locked the store down and set it on fire. My friend got a lovely 50 inch TV for like $200. I got PTSD. And a $10 salmon hoodie. The hoodie is ok.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:06
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So the way it works at Walmart is there is giant pile of TVs and you have to wait in line to get the TV so what they should do is to that but instead of a TV it is a giant pile of black friday guns and ammo and the world would be a better place.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:10
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at work now. someone plz open fire in our mall so I can see some blood and go home.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:13
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My brother works at the same Walmart that I worked at for several years. He was on the floor last year during the black friday rush. He had to cut the saran wrap off of one of the pallets of the sale items, and people were literally throwing themselves onto the display as he was cutting it free because their smartphones "said" it was 6 pm and, you know, the entire world revolves around the time on your personal watch or phone. Once he got it completely unwrapped, he had only a second or two before the mob descended on the merchandise like a school of piranhas on an unlucky cow.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:13
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bitch if you felt sorry for me having to be in this store 12 plus hour's you wouldnt be here. take your poo poo and get out
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Nov 28, 2014 19:16
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Retail Slave posted:My brother works at the same Walmart that I worked at for several years. He was on the floor last year during the black friday rush. He had to cut the saran wrap off of one of the pallets of the sale items, and people were literally throwing themselves onto the display as he was cutting it free because their smartphones "said" it was 6 pm and, you know, the entire world revolves around the time on your personal watch or phone. Actually the Walmart I went to had things pretty organized, I was kind of disappointed there wasn't more mayhem, it would have been pretty cool to see someone get into a fight over a lovely tv. Oh and one guy cut in line but as he was cutting in like he kept saying "I'M NOT CUTTING IN LINE, I'M NOT CUTTING IN LINE" and then he cut in line. It was kind of funny.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:17
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zooted heh posted:bitch if you felt sorry for me having to be in this store 12 plus hour's you wouldnt be here. take your poo poo and get out 
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Nov 28, 2014 19:19
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It's fun to be reminded sometimes that we live in a dystopian sci-fi fantasy world. EDIT: wow the no-avatar avatars keep getting worse.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:28
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Black Sunday owns, more people should watch it. Robert Shaw is a Mossad agent who has to stop Bruce Dern from blowing up the Superbowl.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:32
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Three Olives posted:I went. Is that a fat person on a cart? Does walmart sell fatties now?
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Nov 28, 2014 19:47
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jarjarbinksfan621 posted:why do you have to quit? just walk out amongst the chaos and return when it's time to clock out. This definitely works btw.
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Nov 28, 2014 19:48
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Glowku posted:Is that a fat person on a cart? Does walmart sell fatties now? It was. I asked my friend if he would push me around in a cart but he said no.  Also there were two kind of cute girls right in front of us and the ugly guy in the white T-Shirt was super, super goony and kept hitting on them awkwardly and they couldn't get away because they really wanted a cheap TV. Three Olives fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Nov 28, 2014 |
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Nov 28, 2014 19:57
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Captain Candiru posted:Explain to me how that's supposed to work. Is it like an actual event without context?
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Nov 28, 2014 20:07
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Three Olives posted:It was. I asked my friend if he would push me around in a cart but he said no. so you gave them the D right?
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Nov 28, 2014 20:10
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So here's my one and only ever Black Friday story for your amusement. Back when the Wii came out (2005?) I decided to Black Friday shop for the first time ever in hopes of getting one. Say, JS, did you pre-order, or do anything besides get up early Black Friday morning and just hope to find one? gently caress no! What's preparation or anticipation, precious? WELP. Let's just say that Wii didn't happen for a few months. But I gave it a college try that morning, going to Wal-mart, Sam's, Gamestop, and finally ending up at Circuit City. Never in my life have I seen the kind of poo poo I saw that morning. Go back to the OP and watch those .flvs, it was seriously like that most everywhere. By the time I got to Circuit City I felt almost dehumanized by the kind of rampant consumerist complete loving insanity I had witnessed thus far. People literally throwing other people on the ground to get a waffle iron for $9 off, kids slapping the poo poo out of each other fighting over Barbie clothes with red "CLEARANCE!" stickers on them, men and women in overalls actually sobbing because some product was sold out, etc. Just total, complete, batshit craziness. It was like a David Lynch movie. So I get to Circuit City, my last stop and last hope of getting a Wii. Circuit City is jam-loving-packed with humanity. It's like a loving lobster tank in there, people climbing over one another, the entire middle of the store one thronging, sweating, bargain-hunting mass of carbon. I literally had to edge around the store with my back to the outer wall and my arms spread out palms-to-the-wall like an old-timey burglar trying to avoid detection. I shuffled around the entire periphery of the store in this way, simultaneously horrified at humanity, disgusted at myself, and hopeful that maybe, just maybe, I'd find a Wii here and this whole descent into the belly of the LOW LOW PRICES beast would not have been for naught. Well, you can guess what I found in the video game section, right? This is a Circuit City, so there were a lot of like Sega Game Gear games and poo poo still priced at $59.99, a ton of very questionable accessories ("Now you can STAND YOUR GAME BOY UPRIGHT while it charges, just $29.99!"), and nothing that resembled anything anyone would ever buy for any reason. Can I just say, mother fucker, I should have stayed in bed. So I began to make my way through this enormous crowd towards the doors. Now at this point CC had 4 registers going and there were no poo poo between 30-40 people in line for EACH REGISTER. So think for just a moment. If you are #40 in line for one of these registers, and the clerk can process each transaction in 90 seconds (good luck), then you are going to be standing there for a loving hour just for the chance to get 15% off your quesadilla maker. What the gently caress? So I'm squeezing past the end of these lines, and at the end of the line are two dudes probably in their mid-to-late twenties. They are #40, at least, with an hour wait ahead of them if they're lucky to finally get to pay. And what were these gentlemen willing to sacrifice an hour of their lives to buy? One of them was holding three DVDs. I could only see the top one, but it was some iteration of "The Fast and the Furious." So this poor motherfucker was going to stand in line for an hour, at least, to buy three DVDs. But it got even better. As I struggled through the throng, dude 1 turned to dude 2 and said: "Man, we are so loving lucky to get here in time... two bucks off EACH of these movies!" Yes, he and his friend had gotten up early, come to this store, fought their way to the movies section, made the choice to buy a movie about driving cars, shoved their way into an hour+ wait line, and they had done all of this poo poo in order to save six bucks. A light went off in my head. This Black Friday poo poo wasn't about deals, or saving, or getting a bargain. It was about mental illness, and a desire to suffer. I felt as if my eyes had been opened, as if mighty Cthulhu himself had risen from the ocean, turned its dread Eye on me, and winked. Nowadays I just sit back and wait to hear the casualty figures. BTW I eventually got the Wii and had as much fun with it as most people, meaning a month or two of bowling and then just sort of avoiding eye contact with it from that point on.
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Nov 28, 2014 20:12
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Glowku posted:so you gave them the D right? The girls or my gay friends?
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Nov 28, 2014 20:23
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Saw a store promoting Black Friday here in Scandinavia today, nobody cared. Hopefully it stays that way D:
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Nov 28, 2014 20:36
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ThirdPartyView posted:The US doesn't have an excuse, unless the excuse is 'being a dumbfuck' in which case the US and England are the same; hth. I'm Canadian and we have black fridays too. There is no context except that its black friday. Canada also has Boxing day sales (aka the day after Christmas day), which is just unashamed selfness immediately after christmas. At least with black friday you can have the excuse that you blasted someone point blank in the face with mace so you could buy your kid an xbox for christmas. With boxing day its just like "Hey! you just spent a poo poo load on christmas and was likelly in turn was given a bunch of crap too! But we still have lots of crap to sell at rock bottom prices! So buybuybuybuybuybuyspendspendspendspendconsumeconsumeconsume!" But boxing day doesn't have people waiting days, let alone weeks, infront of stores, we just have people standing out in the freezing cold in early hours of the morning waiting for the doors to open specially early to barrel through the doors to get one of 4 tv's on sale. Does anyone else have that, very little of the crap for sale? This black friday some flyers advertised things like "Four minimum per store" for their door crashers. Pretty much anything worth tackling someone right in the spine for is going to already been bought by the time you reach the pallet.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:00
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Glowku posted:so you gave them the D right? This is three olives you are talking about. The D would be derision on their fashion designs.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:05
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:Black Friday is in the UK now as well. Go away you fat fucks. I'll be deep in the cold ground before I ever celebrate your lovely 4th of July and thanksgiving wankfests. And in Denmark as well! Why, I do not know - except the offers are really lovely.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:15
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Mange Mite posted:See at least the us has an excuse, that's just pathetic Look we've seen this Halloween and Thanksgiving thing on TV and while we may not know exactly what it is by god we are going to have our own.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:32
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Just got back from a 10 hour shift stuck at the checkouts of an electrical goods section for a major uk department store. gently caress you America for giving us Black Friday.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:36
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Gypsum Fantastic posted:Just got back from a 10 hour shift stuck at the checkouts of an electrical goods section for a major uk department store. gently caress you America for giving us Black Friday. Was there any granny-smashin'? I heard that Tescos had to be cleared by the police.
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Nov 28, 2014 21:41
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Fugue Stater posted:Black Fridays in my city are apparently very polite and civil, but I still think it's a dying trend. Online continues to gain market share, and the deals usually aren't even that crazy anymore. The days of trample deaths are probably gone. RIP in prices.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Was there any granny-smashin'? I heard that Tescos had to be cleared by the police. In honesty it wasn't all that bad, just a pain in the arse that I spent most of the day having to actually serve people instead of have personal conversations with the girls in cookware who are basically a level down from the tarts in womenswear. This is the correct level as of course the womenswear ladies are holding out for the guys in menswear/sporting goods and us electrical geeks must know our place. It's a delicate ecosystem. I smash grannies at weekends.
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