I love a bargain just as much as the next person but I am not willing to get up at 4 AM just so I can be the first in line to enter a store when it opens it's doors at 5 AM on Black Friday. The magical 5 AM store opening is played out all across the land on the Friday after Thanksgiving with Wal-Mart leading the way on discount prices. The only thing worse than the Wal-Mart culture are the Wal-Mart shoppers. Their almost like a herd of lab rats and you know what rats do. They all run for the cheese in hopes of being the first rat to capture that yellow prize.
Our culture of mass consumption has bred super shoppers who will show up for every clearance and every special with one goal in mind. The goal of being first to the cash register takes precedence over everything allowing shoppers to behave like savages on steroids. All Black Friday shoppers seem to know the price of everything but the value of nothing. When that magical 5 AM hour arrives on Black Friday, shoppers are not running to catch a train, their not running out of fear, their not running with the bulls and their not running from a terrorist bullet. They are enticed and cheapened by discounts on flat panel televisions or anything that is marked down 50%.
Black Friday shoppers will never learn that stuff is just stuff. Just as the Black Friday shopper knows the price of everything so do I but unlike the Black Friday shopper I know the value of everything so get out of my way. I've spotted Velveeta at 50% off, this rat knows the value of a cheap cheese sandwich.
I agree,,no black Friday shopping for me,,,,I just sit around and drink coffee or Diet Coke with my sister and that is how I spend my morning after Thanksgiving !!!!
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In 2003 YBB did a Black Friday at Walmart. Got there at 4:30am to buy a $169 vacum cleaner for $39. Had to park 4 miles from the front door, no baskets were left,wall to wall people and then after 45 minutes it took me to make my way to the vacum cleaner dept. they were all out of the special buy. Never again will I attend a Black Friday, I like to give the inventor of Black Fridy 2 BLACK eyes!!!!
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