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Topic: I just went to Walmart on Black Friday.
Gadani
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posted 11-23-2007 06:21:47 AM
Holy shit it was packed at fucking 4:55 AM.

The only reason I went to Wal-Mart when the sale started was that I woke up for no reason :v

Anyway, I got in, walked around people for about 5 minutes, grabbed the TV I wanted, then went to an empty self checkout and got out in a grand total of about 10 minutes.

Score!

Kaiote
Shot in the Face
posted 11-23-2007 06:26:21 AM
My roommate is a manager of a wal-mart McDonalds...
He had to go in at 2am to prep his store, and make a fuckload of coffee.

To prepare, we watched Hairspray.
If you can watch Walken kiss Travolta.. you can deal with the unwashed masses on black friday.

Henry had been killed by a garden gnome.He had fallen off the roof onto that cheerful-looking figure. The gnome was made of concrete. Henry wasn't. - Dean Koontz, Velocity
Azakias
Never wore the pants, thus still wields the power of unused (_|_)
posted 11-23-2007 12:08:49 PM
You couldnt pry me out of my house with a crowbar on black friday.
"Age by age have men stood up and said to the world, 'From what has come before me, I was forged, but I am new and greater than my forebears.' And so each man walks the world in ruin, abandoned and untried. Less than the whole of his being"
LeMiere
posted 11-23-2007 12:13:22 PM
I've spent ten hours stocking a WalMart on the Thanksgiving night before a Black Friday.
The next year, I arrive there at 3 am to assist with the stocking and prep before customers arrive, then I checked out customers until one in the afternoon.

Now I feel the same way Azakias does.

Greenlit
posted 11-23-2007 12:39:12 PM
I really need to get out and cash my paycheck today

But I also really need to continue living

Maradon!
posted 11-23-2007 01:24:54 PM
Black Friday is not the biggest shopping day of the season
Azakias
Never wore the pants, thus still wields the power of unused (_|_)
posted 11-23-2007 01:36:26 PM
That site says its not the biggest in terms of dollars, while remaining rather large in terms of people.

I dont care how much money people are spending. I care how much I'll have to dodge and deal with people who are in holiday derby mode.

"Age by age have men stood up and said to the world, 'From what has come before me, I was forged, but I am new and greater than my forebears.' And so each man walks the world in ruin, abandoned and untried. Less than the whole of his being"
Oreowned
My friends call me 'Wiggles'
posted 11-23-2007 08:41:49 PM
The best sale I found all day was 2 mice for $3.99. =(


...I named them Kael'thas and Illidan. ._.

Delphi Aegis
Delphi. That's right. The oracle. Ask me anything. Anything about your underwear.
posted 11-23-2007 10:37:32 PM
Some of the best days working at EBGames were on Black Friday, at least for me.

It was basically the same transaction over and over again. No retarded kids coming in with fifteen heavily scratched, no-box/case games to trade in (And if they did, we just flat out refused them), just a never-ending stream of mothers, grandmothers and stuff coming in and buying whatever flavor of awesome game that was out that year.

Mr. Gainsborough
posted 11-25-2007 01:23:19 AM
We were fairly slow for a busy day on Black Friday, other than the line in the morning for Wiis. We actually had a couple points between 7 and 1 when we had nobody in the store but employees. It felt kinda weird considering how huge the holiday is.
Demos
Pancake
posted 11-25-2007 01:41:19 AM
quote:
Everyone wondered WTF when Mr. Gainsborough wrote:
We were fairly slow for a busy day on Black Friday, other than the line in the morning for Wiis. We actually had a couple points between 7 and 1 when we had nobody in the store but employees. It felt kinda weird considering how huge the holiday is.

But...its not a holiday.

"Jesus saves, Buddha enlightens, Cthulhu thinks you'll make a nice sandwich."
Mr. Gainsborough
posted 11-25-2007 09:06:11 AM
quote:
Demos stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
But...its not a holiday.

It is for retail.

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