Black Friday Chimpouts - Fist fights, stampedes, and virtue singaling galore.

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I see the shootings are already covered!

Black Friday shoppers trash Nike store near Seattle
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Source: http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/video-break/article117394818.html

Black Friday horror after policeman is stabbed in the neck confronting 'HMV shoplifter' ahead of Busted visit
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/black-friday-horror-after-duty-9332345

Some videos:




People being exceptional again.
 
FemalePresident said:
I see the shootings are already covered!

Black Friday shoppers trash Nike store near Seattle
nike

Source: http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/video-break/article117394818.html

Black Friday horror after policeman is stabbed in the neck confronting 'HMV shoplifter' ahead of Busted visit
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/black-friday-horror-after-duty-9332345

Some videos:




People being exceptional again.
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Ah, Black Friday, the only day where people can loot and destroy stores with no repercussions or derision.

This should become the new mascot for Black Friday:

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DerSandstrom said:
Ah, Black Friday, the only day where people can loot and destroy stores with no repercussions or derision.

This should become the new mascot for Black Friday:

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I think this is better, because it has blood:

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I'm glad we're moving into the internet hermit era and most shopping will soon be done online.
 
Mrs Paul said:
Fuck, now it's shootings? Jesus, I remember a few years ago when that employee at Walmart was trampled to death. People were still pushing and shoving and grabbing shit off of the shelves while the employees were trying to help the guy.

I worked at Kmart all through college -- I fucking earned the right to PALATR when it comes to Black Friday Fights.
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Several paramedics were seriously injured while trying to help him, too, IIRC. Though I may be thinking of a different incident.
 
Man this shit was a disappointment. I don't know how it was in the States but here in the UK the deals were pitiful. It gets hyped up for like a week and is on the national news, all for a fucking £10 saving on a set of plates or some shit.

Cyber Monday was just as pathetic too. I found an aggregator of some of the best deals and it was like "this coffee machine was £150, is now £135.99!!". Well surprise, I still don't want it. I guess I missed out on that deal of the century.
 
This Reddit thread has some pretty great stories. My faves:

Worked at a store that had a service department. They couldn't ring up anything at the service counter but they had a computer which made it look like a register. Guy is standing there patiently waiting to be rung up. Finally somebody notices him and asks what he needs. "I'd like to pay." he says. "I'm sorry this isn't a register" replies the service tech. The guy then proceeds to try and convince the service tech to let him pay because the line for the main registers is three hours long. Of course the service tech couldn't because he didn't have a register. He just had a computer for making appointments and such. So after 15 minutes of argument the guy moves off to find the line. Here's the fun part. While he was arguing somebody else saw him standing by something that looked like a register and so got in line behind him. Then people saw the shorter line and got in behind them. With nobody to control it the line to nowhere grew quickly. 15 minutes was all it took for the not-line to snake all the way around the department. So when the doofus who started this whole fiasco went to find the right line he found the end of the line he had started. Then the guy behind him heard that there wasn't a register so he followed the first guy. Then the next customer followed the 2nd and so on. They walked around in a circle for an hour before somebody noticed them. We almost had a riot when a manager had to tell 100 people that they weren't in line and had just waited an hour for nothing. That same year we had several scuffles at points where the register line had forked into two lines. From then on we marked off a huge register path and had several employees just manage the line.
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About 15 years ago, I was working at a book store in a mall. Somehow, around 5pm maybe, I found myself the only employee in the entire store--not a single coworker to be found, and we were slammed with customers. We usually had music playing in the store, controlled by an ordinary 5-CD stereo in the back office, and of course this is the day the inoffensive holiday music gets brought into circulation.

Around the time I found myself alone, I noticed the stereo had become stuck on repeat, just playing the same song over and over. It was at least an hour before I was able to get away from the counter, and so that was the day I was forced to listen to some kind of generic "A Very Jazzy Jinglebells" some 30 times back to back.
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Not retail, but I worked at a restaurant that is right across the street from the mall (And open black fridy) so naturally after people get great deals on whatever they come eat.

Anyway, I'm sitting in back of the house Black Friday morning, waiting for my inevitably long shift to start. It was incredibly busy as it was but I wasn't about to clock in early. I was BSing with one of the managers when I heard a hostess scream through the walkie "HELP HELP!". So I immediately rush to the entrance to see two grown men on the ground fighting,one in nothing but his underwear, and my shift lead trying to pull them off each other while screaming "FUCKING STOP. THIS IS A FAMILY RESTAURANT THERE ARE CHILDREN HERE!" I jolted forward in an attempt to break up the fight. This is where it gets weird. Everyone is gathered around this small area watching or trying to help when someone grabbed a fire extinguisher and started spraying us with it.So we have a bunch of people trying to break up a fight between a man in his underwear and some other dude and someone spraying us with a fire extinguisher while we have christmas carols playing in the background. Finally we get the fight broken up. Cops show up. The whole 9 yards.

Guy1 got the last TV/voucher from Best Buy and Guy2 was very angry about that. So he followed him over to the restaurant to try and buy the TV from him. Guy1 told Guy2 to fuck off so Guy2 took off his pants and started to fight Guy1
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Worked at Wal-Mart years ago; One of my mangers thought she was being sneaky and swapped my Black Friday off shift, with an on at 9 am (My shifts normally didn't start until 1, and ended at 9, so this was utter bullshit). I was in the bakery department and had to work all of Thanksgiving the day before, and they ended up needing more help. I came in at 6 am that day, and worked a 14 hour shift, because most of my team had been given the holiday off, my managers excuse being "You're young! They have families they need to be with and kids to celebrate with!" so I was pretty angry.

I found out that the Black Friday sale was a 65" LCD tv in electronics and PS3's, so needless to say it was going to be a bloodbath, I stayed in my department because there was literally no one else there and caught up on much needed sanitation, when the manager found out before the sale started she came my way to rain down fire, brimstone, and bullshit on me.

Thankfully, I could use their own bullshit policies against them. There needs to be at least one member of the bakery crew on hand to write on cakes, and since I was the only one there, they were shit outta luck. I got out of Black Friday bullshit, got an easy day of work, and the perfect spot to watch the chaos all while screwing over a manager I hated. It was a beautiful day.
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The only reason people go for black Friday is the supposed deals they are going to get. This year I was planning on getting a PS4 for my son Junior Senior, but ended up getting it cheaper at a big name store three days later. Husband, Senior Junior was kind of agog at it. I personally think Black Friday is a modern Gladiator Fight, and the participants only serve to entertain the Corporate officers.
 
Snacker said:
I don't know how it was in the States but here in the UK the deals were pitiful. It gets hyped up for like a week and is on the national news, all for a fucking £10 saving on a set of plates or some shit.
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Something like that. Pretty much the most desirable items (which may or may not be the best priced stuff) are carried in limited quality. They'll offer $70 TVs, but the catch is it's only one brand, and one of the smaller sizes, and they might only have ten of them anyways. Most people don't read the fine print, and might buy a larger and better TV at approximately the regular price anyways because it's Black Friday and it must be a great deal after all, right? Plus too once they get you through those doors for that $70 TV they're banking on you to buy other crap, their real money makers, because people don't want to leave empty handed and it is Black Friday and it's on sale, so....

Really if you must get something for cheaper it's better to wait until roughly after the 12th. Stores start to get desperate to sell everything after that point. Yes your options go down as well, but some things probably aren't guaranteed after November anyways.
 
I've worked in retail for a long time and this year was probably the most tame Black Friday I've ever seen. People would rather just shop online. All of the big retailers know it, which is why they are all doing their best to grow their online business. Unless it's truly something you can only get at one store, in person, there'a no reason to participate in the crazy. I find that most Black Friday shoppers are either not savvy enough to shop online, are aware that they have little chance of getting a particular item any other way, unless they want to pay exorbitant amounts on EBay, or are there because they are bored after Thanksgiving and enjoy the madness.
 
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So the result is fewer chimps but more chimpouts per capita.
 
Broken Pussy said:
I've worked in retail for a long time and this year was probably the most tame Black Friday I've ever seen. People would rather just shop online. All of the big retailers know it, which is why they are all doing their best to grow their online business. Unless it's truly something you can only get at one store, in person, there'a no reason to participate in the crazy. I find that most Black Friday shoppers are either not savvy enough to shop online, are aware that they have little chance of getting a particular item any other way, unless they want to pay exorbitant amounts on EBay, or are there because they are bored after Thanksgiving and enjoy the madness.
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Pretty much this. I didn't even go anywhere the day after Thanksgiving outside of the grocery store to get some munchies. Any shopping I did, I did online. Sure, you have to wait a few more days, but I'd say the benefit of not having to deal with rude fuckers, congested parking, and the risk of contracting disease (especially Godforsaken stomach bugs) far outweighs having to wait a week or so for your items. I think more people are starting to realize that too, especially with the "Cyber Monday starts the Wednesday before Thanksgiving!" stuff.

But so long as there's dumbshits who wait outside at 2 in the morning for some overhyped, overpriced piece of junk that'll be obsolete in a year; stores like Toys R Us, Kohls, and JC Penney will continue to open earlier and earlier on Thanksgiving.
 
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