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[Bog]

That's a woman who only cares about quality.

 

[Gek54]

She does have that extra chromesome look.

 

[Fifty]

This day must be heaven for the discount TV and DVD player companies. Every year, whether it's black friday in the states, or boxing day in Canada, the items I see being sold the most, and those with the greatest discount are the Shittyovox brands of TVs and DVD players. That lady has two "Symphonic" TVs, I wonder how many of those are sold during the year. *realizes that it's Walmart* I have no point.

 

[atomsk]

Ugh, I just got back from work (TRU) doing a 4 am - 4 pm shift.
I fucking hate people, and I'm gonna go play some games.

did you at least have any ps2s? we had 8.

we also blew through 15 boxes of those GBA bundles. and almost sold out of all our SP's

thank god i wasnt running register most of it, just empying emplast bins, and refilling gba games/gba video/dvd's

and they brought us (good) pizza

so it was horrible, but not as bad as it could have been. only 2 or 3 assholes the whole day.

 

[Mrbob]

did you at least have any ps2s? we had 8.

we also blew through 15 boxes of those GBA bundles. and almost sold out of all our SP's

thank god i wasnt running register most of it, just empying emplast bins, and refilling gba games/gba video/dvd's

and they brought us (good) pizza

so it was horrible, but not as bad as it could have been. only 2 or 3 assholes the whole day.

Damn. That is an exceptional Black Friday to only have a couple.

 

[atomsk]

well, i was only on register about 3 hours out of 12

 

[Bowser]

I decided this year that I wasn't going to wake up early and was just going to see what the scavengers had left. I went to Best Buy hoping they had some 24 Season One boxsets left. Well, they did! Only one. I went to buy it, but the lady told me that the $12.99 price was only until noon. I looked at my watch: 12:15 PM. I was like,"Mrs, it's only 15 after noon, can't you give it to me for the sale price?" and she said, "No, sorry." Stupid bitch. So I went to Target, looked to see if they had an Simpson Season 4 boxsets left. Ended up that they had like 10-15. So I left and went back at 5:00 PM (I didn't feel like waiting in line), went back to the DVD section, and there were still 9-10 sets left. Picked one up, took it to the express counter and I was done.

Total time spent shopping on Black Friday: ~10 min.

 

[Mashing]

Actually, I probably find christmas eve shoppers even worse than BF shoppers... ugh. They are really pissy around then because their dumbass can't find little billy the hottest item of the season the day before christmas (I don't work in retail, but I've seen this first hand).

 

[AstroLad]

I think if you don't have kids that you're worried about getting Tickle Me Elmo 2004 Edition, X-Mas shopping is basically no sweat at all. I do 90% of my shopping 1 or 2 days before X-Mas, and since I don't really have a specific item I obsessively must give, I can always find suitable stuff, and the stores are sorta crowded I guess, but no big deal imo as long as you avoid the places where all the parents are fighting over shit. BB has lines as long as hell, but what do you expect? If you don't wanna wait, you're free to not celebrate Jesus' fucking birthday by giving people Wings Season 1 DVD.

 

[RevenantKioku]

did you at least have any ps2s? we had 8.

We had 4. Then someone returned one and we sold it soon after. We should have had a lot more (and of Xboxen and DS) but one of my coworkers is a fucking idiot.

we also blew through 15 boxes of those GBA bundles. and almost sold out of all our SP's

I know I taped together 12 boxes myself, and there were a shitload prepared prior, so I'd say we had almost 20 boxes gone through and sold them all.

Thank god I wasn't running register most of it, just empying emplast bins, and refilling gba games/gba video/dvd's

I didn't run at all actually, and I was glad of it. I mostly stocked, thank god.

and they brought us (good) pizza

Ruby Tuesdays actually catered for us. The chicken wrap sucked balls, but the chicken fingers were pretty tasty. They had a cool pasta salad as well.

so it was horrible, but not as bad as it could have been. only 2 or 3 assholes the whole day.

A lot of people got pissed when I told them we weren't price-matching, but other than that it was cool.

 

[BigGreenMat]

I saw basically shit deals on everything. Terrible Black Friday. That said the 2 freaking items that I wanted were all gone. 1. was the Wireless G router and card from CompUSA. Totally gone by 6:30am. 2nd was Tales of Symphonia for 23.44, none at Target. I think though I can get a pricematch at Best Buy or Circuit City.

All that said I did score a 27" Samsung HDTV for some good gaming and DVD viewing for ~375. It even has a DVI. Damn sweet score for the price.

 

[Jim Bowie]

This is my fourth black friday. I refuse to have some shopper argue fat fuck shopper logic with me. Fuck you for trying.

Thanks for playing, but I didn't go shopping today.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Thank God you're in Vancouver, or that it's just a year?

You're not having a very good time here, I wager.

Yeah it sounds like you're not liking the Canadian experience?

Thank god there's no Black Friday here.

 

[Phoenix]

Its sad that people would sit in long ass lines to save 15% on shit that they normally wouldn't even purchase and sit in 30 minutes lines to pay regular/sale price on everything else.

 

[ChrisReid]

Actually, I probably find christmas eve shoppers even worse than BF shoppers... ugh. They are really pissy around then because their dumbass can't find little billy the hottest item of the season the day before christmas (I don't work in retail, but I've seen this first hand).

Well, this is my fifth Christmas in the mall. "Black Friday" isn't the worst. It has the biggest hype around it, but the Friday/Saturday/Sunday leading up to Christmas is the worst, along with Christmas Eve. With Christmas falling on a Saturday this year, it'll skew things a bit. The prior weekend will be comparable to BlackFriday, but the Friday Christmas Eve (and Thursday 23rd) is just gonna be nuts.

 

[Crazymoogle]

Thank god there's no Black Friday here.

It's called Boxing Day instead. Only a month away...

 

[White Man]

I got to live in the filthy masses' depraved world today. I much prefer mine.

There's no way I'm doing this again next year. Jesus Tits, no way. Please, help me, I am in hell.

 

[fart]

hooray for not working in retail

 

[nathkenn]

Its sad that people would sit in long ass lines to save 15% on shit that they normally wouldn't even purchase and sit in 30 minutes lines to pay regular/sale price on everything else.

these are the same people everyone has to wait in line for at the grocery store as they argue over some 50 cent coupon on a 10lb bag of pork rinds

reminds me of when i was getting water etc during the hurricanes and there were people in front of me with literally an entire shopping cart filled with soda and chips *shivers*

 

[AstroLad]

It's not every day you can get Symphonic TVs on the cheap. Too bad the people who slept over at Super Wal-Mart got all the Sorny and Panaphonics before I could get there.

 

[Gribbix]

Are the crowds still going to suck ass tommorrow? I want to use a gift certificate on MGS3 at Best Buy, but I don't want to deal with any crowds.

 

[Bog]

Are the crowds still going to suck ass tommorrow? I want to use a gift certificate on MGS3 at Best Buy, but I don't want to deal with any crowds.

Then you better wait until mid-January.

 

[Goreomedy]

This day must be heaven for the discount TV and DVD player companies. Every year, whether it's black friday in the states, or boxing day in Canada, the items I see being sold the most, and those with the greatest discount are the Shittyovox brands of TVs and DVD players. That lady has two "Symphonic" TVs, I wonder how many of those are sold during the year. *realizes that it's Walmart* I have no point.

While picking up a Christmas Tree at Wal-mart, I heard them announce: "Attention Wal-mart shoppers. We've just found some more Symphonic 20 inch Flat Screen DVD Player combos for $120 in the back! First come, first served at Electronics."

At first, no one seemed to be too impressed. And then you could see people moving ever-so-slowly toward electronics. Suddenly, when those shoppers realized they had competition, they broke into sprints. It was a cacophony of cheap sneakers squeaking on waxed floors, shouts about being pushed, and children crying from the spectacle of their parents turning into rabid wolves. I loved it!

 

[Miguel]

While picking up a Christmas Tree at Wal-mart, I heard them announce: "Attention Wal-mart shoppers. We've just found some more Symphonic 20 inch Flat Screen DVD Player combos for $120 in the back! First come, first served at Electronics."

At first, no one seemed to be too impressed. And then you could see people moving ever-so-slowly toward electronics. Suddenly, when those shoppers realized they had competition, they broke into sprints. It was a cacophony of cheap sneakers squeaking on waxed floors, shouts about being pushed, and children crying from the spectacle of their parents turning into rabid wolves. I loved it!

:lol

I can't believe I missed it this year. I went to Walmart last year, and Best Buy the year before. I wasn't even going to BUY anything this year...I just wanted to go see all the madness again. :lol

Oh well, maybe next year, or the day before christmas.














I need a life.

 

[dskillzhtown]

I need a life.

I haven't agreed with a post more than this one ever.

 

[XMonkey]

Return and rebuy/Pricematch is the key. Just come in at 11am with your previously bought items and get the same discounts. I wish I had read about that sooner, glad this Black Friday wasn't all that great. Only thing I picked up was Family Guy Volume 1 at Target for $18 at 1:00pm.