black friday is bullshit!

[Akala]

there were fuckers camping in the best buy parking lot last night! we just rolled by to see the line and it was at least 200 deep! what the fuck is wrong with people?

staying up till 12 PST then crashing. MAYBE.

[Trent Dole]

Most places have shit deals this year anyway. I've never done any camping nonsense for any sales ever.

[Akala]

I used to, but it's been too insane the past few years. why stand in line for over a day to save (maybe) $200? we all know retail is fucked, there will be sales all month.

[Bocsius]

Hey, they get the shortest month of the year, too.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

I used to, but it's been too insane the past few years. why stand in line for over a day to save (maybe) $200? we all know retail is fucked, there will be sales all month.

At least people can look to save that much on Black Friday. In Canada we only have Boxing Day. The deals aren't remotely as good (you'll be lucky to find 10% off things), yet dumbfucks still line up just the same.

[tehjaybo]

I was at Wal-Mart here getting oreos tonight and there were people lined up through the store waiting for the deals tomorrow.  What morons.  It's.  Fucking.  WalMart.

[ToxicAdam]

I (mistakenly) went to Toys R Us thinking I could pick up the Ipod Touch deal. There were over 400 people inside that store at midnight. It was crazy.

The craziest thing was that there was an Old Navy next door and there were 30-40 people camped out there for tommorow's deals. Old Navy!

[The Fake Shemp]

The majority of Black Friday deals you can get later into the holiday season, or find the same discount (or better) online. It's kind of worthless. Occasionally, there's a crazy deal, but how much is your time truly worth?

[Fragamemnon]

Yeah most, if not all, of the deals have been online this year, except for the stuff that requires camping not seen since the halcyon days of everquest. Standing around in the cold for hours with a bunch of people who probably have the swines to get a $200 laptop with a intel integrated GPU is not a good deal.

[demi]

I was at Wal-Mart here getting oreos tonight and there were people lined up through the store waiting for the deals tomorrow.  What morons.  It's.  Fucking.  WalMart.

Walmart has sick TV deals bro, dont get it twisted.

[G The Resurrected]

Green man listen to reason, if you read the fine print they dont even have to have the games on the console of your choice. I called earlier to talk to someone about the lego rockband game and both my stores only got shitty wii copies to give.

FUCK THAT I SAY!

I'm buying online, thanks to amazon and bestbuy instore pickup.

[ToxicAdam]

After seeing all the news reports of all the people that waited for Sarah Palin to sign their book and seeing all the people waiting +5 hours to save 30 bucks, I have determined that I need to reorganize my life and get more free time. Obviously, I am doing something wrong.

[G The Resurrected]

But that doesn't guarantee you a copy.

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get me a 360 if you can. I've got a boner for some Freddie Mercury lego rockband porn

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[ch1nchilla]

Stupid as hell. I've never participated in black Friday nor has anyone in my direct family. Relaxing post-Thanksgiving ftw.

[Bebpo]

I love how Amazon is price matching every BF sale at every store.  They don't want anyone getting business besides them.

Click 1 button from your bed >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> camping out for 12 hours and fighting hundreds for the same item at the same price.

[brawndolicious]

I was coming back home from a friend's place a few hours ago (around 11:30ish) and I suddenly come up to a bunch of traffic.  My first instinct is that this is probably due to a holiday drunk but I don't see any accident and then, all of the traffic suddenly clears up after the Great Mall exit in Milpitas...

There's probably more shoppers than there are parking spaces at that rate.

[Human Snorenado]

I don't think I could ever make myself go to a black Friday sale... too many years of retail, and if there's one thing I hate it's standing in fucking line.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

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[Olivia Wilde Homo]

There really isn't anything worth waiting in line for.  I think it is tradition for some people: I bet it is often the same people doing this year after year.  My old roommate stood in line for black friday sales specials.  He did get a cheap Bravia 1080p last year from Best Buy so I dunno.

[Eel O'Brian]

I was going to go to the OfficeMax around the corner to snag a $239 desktop deal, but found out yesterday the BF ad that leaked turned out to be a "proof of concept" ad and the desktop was actually $299.  The lines around here never get to the insane levels of big city BF lines, but I'd still have been pretty pissed had I not seen the real ad in time.  It all worked out, though.  I got to sleep in a little, and now I can spend some extra on the CrazySteam™ sales.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

For retail hell, I worked a black friday once.

The store opened at 7 and I had to report to work at 6a.  People found out that we were going into work that way and was pissed - the store manager had to explain that we needed an hour to get things set up.  People wanted their shit NOW.  The big electronics deal was either a free GBA game with a GBA or $10 off the MSRP, I forget.  We had several boxes of GBAs on a pallet of general electronics.  Well, another manager opened the doors a few minutes early and several customers made a beeline to the GBA display cases.  One co-worker was ringing them up and I came out with the pallet of general electronic goods, including GBAs.  Customers rushed over to the pallet, helping themselves to the GBA boxes and opening them up to get the GBAs.  They didn't even wait patiently, they just rushed over and started picking them off the pallet.  One customer got out a knife and started tearing away at the cardboard.  That always freaked me out.  The customers also knocked a DVD player off of the pallet, which broke after another customer stepped on it.

The first three hours was all about rushing to supply what we had for the deals.  We celebrated when we had nothing left.  Customers got pissy and took rainchecks but it was preferable to getting bum rushed every 5-10 minutes to get out a pallet of Game Boy Advances or some shitty Bratz toy.  The remaining hours of the shift was dead, we licked our wounds and cleaned up the messes the animal customers made because they needed to buy some luggage that was $5 less than it typically goes for.

That was the first and only time I had to experience that.  Retail workers have my sympathy.  People are animals in these sales and the savings are never worth the headache and drama.

[chronovore]

I'm happy to pay more to avoid having to deal with this shit-headery. How is Amazon doing complete price-matching? Or are you just talking about that link in the top-right of the main page?

[bachikarn]

I think a good amount of people do it more for a social event. Amazon is now price matching most of the good deals so it really isn't worth it anymore.

[tiesto]

Nope, ain't going anywhere today apart from the gym to work off some of that gluttony I engaged in last night.

[Himu]

I've never camped at for Black Friday. Then again, I tend to always skip on black friday and just go for the day after Christmas.

[Don Flamenco]

I didn't see a single thing I wanted this year.  Though dell.com has a wii with an extra controller and NSMB for $249 that my parents are buying for their house.  

[Kestastrophe]

I am ordering MGS4 (lol), Ass Creed, and Lonesome Dove on Bluray from Amazon. As others have mentioned, the online retailers are the only ones that have interesting deals this year, and even those are not that great. I had already ordered half of my Christmas gifts on deals from weeks earlier.

[BlueTsunami]

A couple of years ago I bought my 65" DLP HDTV after Black Friday (for $1500). It was still the same Black Friday deal but closer to Christmas.

[cool breeze]

I've only gone out on Black Friday twice.  Once was in the mountains where the malls were practically empty, so it was a relaxed Black Friday.  The other time was when some friends asked, so I went and didn't buy anything.

Online black friday is where it's at.

[duckman2000]

Deals lead to stampedes, but I think Americans just love lines. Midnight game releases, movie openings, sales, any excuse is a good excuse for Americans to form a line. And the best is if you happen to appear in some newscast, or a photo of the line. It's a cultural thing.

[ManaByte]

Cops are blockading the Walmart around the corner from me. Looks like the holiday shoplifting madness has officially begun.

[TakingBackSunday]

Deals lead to stampedes, but I think Americans just love lines. Midnight game releases, movie openings, sales, any excuse is a good excuse for Americans to form a line. And the best is if you happen to appear in some newscast, or a photo of the line. It's a cultural thing.

Midnight game releases are usually not that bad though, especially if it's for a game that's NOT a Halo or Call of Duty.  And Midnight movie premiers...well, that all depends on what  kind of theatre you go to, and in what kind of area it's in.

Black Friday is shit EVERYWHERE.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Deals lead to stampedes, but I think Americans just love lines. Midnight game releases, movie openings, sales, any excuse is a good excuse for Americans to form a line. And the best is if you happen to appear in some newscast, or a photo of the line. It's a cultural thing.

This is my favourite part of things like this. Sitting back and watching the herds of people trample each other on YouTube.

[Brehvolution]

Can't wait to hear about the death toll tomorrow. Morons.

[Mr. Gundam]

The best Black Friday deal is in Seattle.

the xx are doing a free show at 3pm today in Ballard.

Black Friday

[BlueTsunami]

I wish there was a police task force that was given carte blanche in regards to how they could deal with store stampedes. You could just take out your taser or nightstick and start zapping and wopping out of line soccer moms.

[Human Snorenado]

I wish there was a police task force that was given carte blanche in regards to how they could deal with store stampedes. You could just take out your taser or nightstick and start zapping and wopping out of line soccer moms.

I was thinking more of flame throwers and gatling guns.

[Don Flamenco]

If I was a store owner, I'd coat the floor in vaseline.  Then, when everyone starts slipping and falling over each other, I'd spray everyone with liquidated rotten fish.   and then tell them how much I hate them.  then lock the doors and tell them they can't leave until they lick the fish guts off each other.

[Ganhyun]

If I was a store owner, I'd coat the floor in vaseline.  Then, when everyone starts slipping and falling over each other, I'd spray everyone with liquidated rotten fish.   and then tell them how much I hate them.  then lock the doors and tell them they can't leave until they lick the fish guts off each other.

damn

[Human Snorenado]

If I was a store owner, I'd coat the floor in vaseline.  Then, when everyone starts slipping and falling over each other, I'd spray everyone with liquidated rotten fish.   and then tell them how much I hate them.  then lock the doors and tell them they can't leave until they lick the fish guts off each other.

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

[drew]

i was watching the early morning news thing about this earlier

a hampster is the best thing youve got, early 2000's kids? really? REALLY?  bubububuubub it climbs on your sweater as if it had claws and was a real hampster lolok DID I MENTION IT COST TEN DOLLARS HOLY FUCKING SHIT GOD DAMN JUST LOOK AT THIS MOTHER FUCKING POPULAR SEASONAL PRODUCT GAWT DAWM

[Joe Molotov]

I went out today, I don't know why. I just wanted to be among the horde. See what was going down with the peeps, you know. It was crap, the sales were crap, and by noon places weren't even that crazy anymore, and all the Blu-Ray sale racks had already been raped like a 14-year old at Jack Nicholson's house, and there was just a bunch of dickweeds milling around, like maybe if they walked around long enough a good deal would spontaneously generate. I picked up a few things at Best Buy and did most of my Christmas shopping, but it was all just deeply lame, I shouldn't have bothered.

[Mr. Gundam]

the xx

people fighting stupid crowds for stuff

[drew]

so i just went out to pick up a prescription and forza 3

i dont know if its sleep deprivation throwing me off my game, or it really is that fucking insane in traffic out there right now, but i just had the most harrowing ride of my life

bestbuy and blockbuster was sold out, blockbuster had ds cases strewn all over the aisle, the idiots definitely come out to play on black friday

[Mupepe]

The woman and I went to wal mart at 5am.  We had never done the black friday thing and we wanted to check it out.  We got a two mp3 players for her works secret santa and for her brother.  I got rock band for 50 bucks.  and then we bought an awesome computer chair for 30 bucks.  we checked the regular prices and we saved about 200 bucks and spent 150.  We had fun and it wasn't that crazy.

The best thing though was watching ladies go after an 8 dollar microwave.  People started raping the pallets before 5am and the wal mart employees couldn't stop them.  I grabbed a rock band and took off.  Then we see the pallet of microwaves.  There was one left and a lady picks it up and is holding it when another woman runs up, yanks it out of her hands and runs off yelling "I'm sorry.  So sorry."  It was great.

[Disposable White Guy]

Today's PA touched me.



Black Friday wasn't that bad for us this year, surprisingly.  I spent the majority of the day making people laugh, reminding idiots that can't read "LINE STARTS HERE LOL" signs, and wishing I had a Rock It Launcher for the MW2 360 bundles.

[Dickie Dee]

LOLOL

America Burps and Goes Shopping

Sentence of the day, from Whiskey Fire:

"...for a world-historical triumphant ideological titan, capitalism sure seems to need a shitload of silly propaganda to keep people believing in it."

In particular, "Black Friday" and "Cyber Monday,"

    ...transparent attempts to create out of thin air holidays that are nakedly about nothing but celebrating consumer consumption at its rawest, most primal. Or, greedy. I observe in this regard that all local media in the NYC area yesterday sent reporters to the Valley Stream WalMart where raw consumer consumption last Black Friday got someone trampled to death. This year you will be relieved to know, as every goddamn local TV and radio station reported, nobody got killed on their way to enjoying the bargains they need in order to correctly celebrate the holiday that Fox News informs us is properly understood as a celebration of Christ, as opposed to something not Christian, but perhaps pagan, or maybe pro-big government and anti-free-market.

    And people bitch about Kwanzaa being "phony." Maybe they should call it Cyber-Kwanzaa Wednesday and give everyone 15% off tube socks and Wiis. Legitimacy at last!

The Baltimore TV stations likewise dispatched perky reporterettes to the nearby malls to interview shoppers who had camped out for hours to take advantage of "doorbuster" sales and were wheeling their loaded shopping carts to the parking lot, to feed the cargo space in their minivans and SUVs. It was all treated as wholesome, grinny, American ritual fun. But as I've said before and will say again, because it's my blog: None of these shopping mall parking-lot TV correspondents ever interview the floor employees and managers of these stores, who have to cut their holiday short to stock and get ready for ever more nightowlish openings (Kohl's, for example, opened its doors at 4 AM), or inquired about the additional security guards needed to ensure a riot doesn't break out once the flat-screen TVs or $199 laptops are sold out. Local station managers won't run the risk of ticking off local and national merchants, especially given the importance of all those "doorbuster" ad sales. So each year the time-window closes tighter on Thanksgiving day, shrinking to a few hours for food and football before the retail dinosaur opens its jaws. This year in Maryland more convenience stores and small businesses seemed to be open on Thanksgiving, as if they couldn't afford to let their cash registers have even one day's rest in this rundown economy. Thanksgiving is evolving into a hazy hybrid holiday that resembles a higher calorie President's' Day with autumnal coloring.

[OptimoPeach]

Today's PA touched me.

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Black Friday wasn't that bad for us this year, surprisingly.  I spent the majority of the day making people laugh, reminding idiots that can't read "LINE STARTS HERE LOL" signs, and wishing I had a Rock It Launcher for the MW2 360 bundles.

Ha, the last panel is actually funny because it's so true. I've done that on multiple occasions.

[chronovore]

People believe in "The Back" because of shoe stores. I actually appreciate it when a clerk says, "Everything we have is already out here."

[Mr. Gundam]

Whenever we're out shopping my wife is like "Did you ask if they have more in the back?" Doesn't matter what kind of store we're in, she ALWAYS does it. smh

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

When I worked in retail, sometimes we actually had more of something in the back    This is due more to managers ordering some more of the item and then forgetting all about it when it comes in.

[Joe Molotov]

Gamestop has stuff in "the back" all the time, when the games just came in and they're too lazy to put it out on the shelf.

[Mr. Gundam]

I've never found asking "do you have more in the back?" working out in my favor.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

There's a sex joke to be made here but I'm not clever enough to pull one off.

[Mr. Gundam]

I'm sure Demi or Willco will figure one out. 

[Fresh Prince]

There's a sex joke to be made here but I'm not clever enough to pull one off.

I have enough in the front?