Black Friday

11/26/2005 @ 10:42 AM | General with 2 Comments | Print This Post

So yesterday was the biggest holiday shopping time ever. I, being my nonshopper self, did not venture out into that realm with the masses to decimate the quantity of supplies so people would end up fighting over it. I was watching the news last night and some poor woman up in Michigan got trampled from the ensuing masses trying to rush into a store to buy whatever they can at a discount. I often wonder how much of a discount these people are actually receiving though and then wonder if trampling people justifies the discount they are actually getting that day when it might be had at a discount on some other day earlier in the year.


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    Tarragon // November 26th, 2005 at 1:11 PM

    Earlier this year a new Ikea furniture store opened here and one of the shoppers was actually stabbed in the ensuing riot to get into the shop.

    I loathe shopping and i cant imagine being so obsessed by a new dining set I’d be willing to kill for it.

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    Joe // November 27th, 2005 at 2:12 AM

    I actually went out, not that I wanted to, I was just tagging along with my aunt an cousin. I refuse to ever go out on black Friday, ever again.