OT-shopping insanity

Nancy Howell · Nov 23, 2010

Had the tv on this morning as I got ready for work. I was listening for the weather and traffic reports. Heard a commercial for a major dept store. They are opening at 3:00 in the morning on Friday.

THAT"S INSANE!!!! What"s even more insane is there will be people waiting for them to open the doors.

You would have to pay me a very large sum of money to coerce me to get up and go shopping at 3:00 in the morning. You would have to double that amount to get me to go shopping anytime anywhere on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Billy Shafer · Nov 23, 2010

Let me guess. At Town Easy Mall. My wife drug me to one of those things years ago. Line was down the sidewalk. I stayed in the car and slept. Told my wife I survived nam ain't gonna risk a bunch of angry women on a shopping spree at 4 in the morning.

730d se · Nov 23, 2010

The ones that take us to the depths of supidity are the TV shopping shows. Every item is "low quantity", "almost sold out", "never to be seen on here again". The host will show 10 different colors of an item and claim that they "love, love, love" EVERY color.
It is the epitome of fake hype. Are there that many deranged people out there that need a friend so desparately that they befriend these fakes and purchase stuff?
I can watch about 3 minutes and I feel the desire to go hurl in the toilet. I can just see a bunch of elderly thinking that these host are being open and honest with them. False trust is not better than no trust at all in this case.
This type of marketing has helped many people think that they must purchase stuff in order to be happy. It is ruining good people and nothing could be further from the truth. They are not any happier, and even less happy when the credit card bills arrive.

rustyfarmall · Nov 23, 2010

(quoted from post at 07:03:41 11/23/10) Had the tv on this morning as I got ready for work. I was listening for the weather and traffic reports. Heard a commercial for a major dept store. They are opening at 3:00 in the morning on Friday.

THAT"S INSANE!!!! What"s even more insane is there will be people waiting for them to open the doors.

You would have to pay me a very large sum of money to coerce me to get up and go shopping at 3:00 in the morning. You would have to double that amount to get me to go shopping anytime anywhere on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

There is no amount of money that will get me to even visit a retail store on Friday, unless it would be an on-line retail store.

Goose · Nov 23, 2010

Several years ago, Cabela's opened a new store in Kansas City, Kansas.

We made the mistake of going there the day after Thanksgiving. If you wanted to turn around in the place, you had to organize about 12 people at once.

Brad Gyde · Nov 23, 2010

LOL.. I have to laugh, Yesterday on the morning radio show I listen to, they did a story about a lady in Florida who is camping out in front of Best Buy for the Friday sales.. and has been since the past Friday, I think.. Yep 8 days.. to save a couple bucks on a blue-ray player..

So then, they took callers, and one was planning to camp out at Target starting yesterday at noon.. to save $100 on a TV

Craziness I say.. Of course, since we got a inch of rain overnight we won't be in the fields working the rest of the week, so maybe I should go camp out at Target too.. I mean I got nothing better to do.. Oh, wait, I do, cause I have a life (well, sorta have a life LOL )

Brad

Anonymous-0 · Nov 23, 2010

I'm surprised that some shopper doesn't try to hide in the store during the last openning hours in order to be first in line Friday.

BCnT · Nov 23, 2010

my sister will be in line with the rest of the nuts...she's her mothers daughter all rite...glad i got my dads genes

big fred · Nov 23, 2010

Some people love that stuff. More power to 'em, but ya gotta feel sorry for the folks that have to work in them stores. They're in for a long, miserable day.

Mike (WA) · Nov 23, 2010

I just did it a couple of times when the kids were going off to college, and I needed to buy them cheap computers. Found out just how vigorous those Wally World shoppers could be- wish the guvment had been there to take pictures, as a lot of folks would have lost their disability benefits.

Local Ace Hardware store did a "Black Friday Lite" for a number of years- some decent buys on tools, batteries, etc., but nothing that would cause you to camp out (and little that would appeal to your mall-rat super shopper). He had free coffee and donuts, about 20 or 30 people would show up at the beginning and more would drift in. Very sociable and pleasant (lots of us know each other in this small town)- no pushing or shoving. Main topic of conversation was wondering how the Mall Wars were going, out by the Interstate.

Fawteen · Nov 23, 2010

Shopping?

Heck, I'm not even going to leave the freakin' house!

willie in mn · Nov 23, 2010

SWMBO tried it last year, swore never again.
Got up at 0400, drove 40 miles, parked 1/2 mile away, no carts left at store. Took one of those big plastic tote bins for her stuff, kicked it along the floor. Needed a tote bin anyway.
When she got home grumbling, I asked why she didn't buy a kid's jump rope or a dog leash & drag the tote.
One benefit, keeps the tote in her truck all the time, loads her purchases in it direct from store cart. When she gets home it is easy for me to set the filled tote on my shop cart & roll it right in the kitchen door
Willie

PJH · Nov 23, 2010

One of our family friends has a saying:

"I'd ruther grub out a stump than go shopping"

She's my kind of gal.

Paul

paul · Nov 23, 2010

Went to the 'bigger town' one year when this mania started.

After the first store, I went to the others just to laugh & smile, I didn't do any more shopping. The lines for checkout were looped around the store twice....

In my much smaller town, it's fun to do a little chopping for a couple items here & there.

The regional farm supply store had a forenoon deal, you get a gift card for 20% of the value of what you buy, linited to $100 card now. Can shop the place all forenoon & buy stuff I need that never goes on sale, not hard for me to get to $500. It's busy, but not totally nutz.

--->Paul

ChrisinMO · Nov 23, 2010

The older I get, the less commercial I am at Christmas time. This year we might just do a complete boycott, since major retailers around here have been pushing holiday spending since the end of September. I am definitely not doing my part to support the spend, spend, spend economy of our nation. But my family gets lots of meaningful time together from Thanksgiving through New Year's and a few select gifts otherwise.

Friday after Thanksgiving is a good day to sleep late, run out and do the chores and then spend some quality time with the family.

Christopher

PS- I do LOVE this time of year! My business is slow and so I've got lots of time to do jigsaw puzzles and other things with the family....

BDT in Minnesota · Nov 23, 2010

Think I will wait till next summer and get those goodies at the yard sales,, way cheaper

Anonymous-0 · Nov 23, 2010

If you have to go shopping at 3 in the morning, it should at least be for a tractor. Dave

Zachary Hoyt · Nov 23, 2010

Last year I think it was-maybe the year before-a Wal-Mart employee got trampled to death trying to open the doors on Black Friday morning. He was a healthy young man, but the people just were pushed in so tight he couldn't escape. According to online news coverage at the time injuries are quite common. I'm thinking about crawling under a rock and not coming out for a while, or maybe climbing a tree and pulling it up after me.
Zach

DBAF · Nov 23, 2010

Kinda like a reg.cow sale

redtom · Nov 23, 2010

I live about 15 miles from an "outlet mall" located at the interstate. We seldom go to that town but no matter what time of yeat or day, cars ar piling in in two solid rows. Its as if no other store in the country has clothing to sell. My wife goes there a few times and year and usually comes home empty handed because the bargains aren't that good. Even buses come from Canada which is about 3-4 hours away. Recession my foot! People are addicted to "stuff" and shopping.

showcrop · Nov 23, 2010

Wife and I went away on an overnight to a summer/winter resort area that is dead this time of year. Or so I thought. They have an outlet mall type of place, and the ladies had to visit a kitchen store there. you could hardly get down the aisles for all the shoppers trying to jump start the economy. And there was a new hotel there specially for people coming to the outlet mall.

olddog · Nov 23, 2010

Has become a Thanksgiving traditon here. After the big dinner, the guys adjorn to the big table in the garage for Texas Hold-em. The gals, having bought every paper (with ads) available, have the dinnertable and plan their Black Friday. Two dau.s and DIL and Granma.
General Stormin' Norman Swartzkopf would be proud. Granma usta have a full size Van, and have heard about them having to make a unload run before going again. Then they use granpa's garage for storage for the big things before Christmas. I tell them not to wake me, when they meet and leave @ 4:00 AM.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 23, 2010

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