Back in Black Friday
So it’s Black Friday – and yet here I am, writing in a blog instead of at the mall shopping my little brains out. Funny, no?
Actually, this is the first Black Friday I’ve had off work in several years. My employer changed their floating holiday policy this year and made the day-after-Thanksgiving a set holiday, so I’m actually able to sleep in. Plus, I no longer work retail, so I won’t have to put up with the shopping nutballs later tonight. Sometimes life is indeed good.
Black Friday. A shopper’s paradise, and a retailers headache. I worked a few of them for The Mouse and Rhymes with Darnes and Goble, and they were never what you’d call “fun”. Especially around here.
Sioux City residents LOOOOOOVE a sale more than God, their families, and their 3-pack a day habit. Seriously. Advertise a bag of dog shit as being on sale for 50% off, one day only, limit 2 bags o’ excrement per person, and you’ll have them lined up for blocks, pushing and shoving to get their hands on the discounted poop.
I’ve seen actual fistfights over sale merchandise here. I’ve seen pregnant women trampled in a bid to save $5 on a microwave. I’ve seen people camp out in front of Target, and physically threaten anyone they may think might be cutting in line. (At The Mouse one year, one of our CMs couldn’t get to the door to come in to work because the biddies waiting in line wouldn’t let her up to the entrance.)
So is it any wonder I’m not out there fighting that kind of madness? I like a good deal as much as the next savvy shopper, but the people around here are frickin’ CRAZED.
In the end, for Christmas I’ll probably pay a buck or two for my stuff, but that’s okay. To not go through the hassles and rampage that is shopping on Black Friday in Sioux City, Iowa? It’ll be well worth it.
Actually, this is the first Black Friday I’ve had off work in several years. My employer changed their floating holiday policy this year and made the day-after-Thanksgiving a set holiday, so I’m actually able to sleep in. Plus, I no longer work retail, so I won’t have to put up with the shopping nutballs later tonight. Sometimes life is indeed good.
Black Friday. A shopper’s paradise, and a retailers headache. I worked a few of them for The Mouse and Rhymes with Darnes and Goble, and they were never what you’d call “fun”. Especially around here.
Sioux City residents LOOOOOOVE a sale more than God, their families, and their 3-pack a day habit. Seriously. Advertise a bag of dog shit as being on sale for 50% off, one day only, limit 2 bags o’ excrement per person, and you’ll have them lined up for blocks, pushing and shoving to get their hands on the discounted poop.
I’ve seen actual fistfights over sale merchandise here. I’ve seen pregnant women trampled in a bid to save $5 on a microwave. I’ve seen people camp out in front of Target, and physically threaten anyone they may think might be cutting in line. (At The Mouse one year, one of our CMs couldn’t get to the door to come in to work because the biddies waiting in line wouldn’t let her up to the entrance.)
So is it any wonder I’m not out there fighting that kind of madness? I like a good deal as much as the next savvy shopper, but the people around here are frickin’ CRAZED.
In the end, for Christmas I’ll probably pay a buck or two for my stuff, but that’s okay. To not go through the hassles and rampage that is shopping on Black Friday in Sioux City, Iowa? It’ll be well worth it.
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