\Second week of the weekly rant... Common Sense Needed!
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\There is now talk of next year during the Black Friday sales that stores will not even close starting... WEDNESDAY! In New York anyway. Are you fucking kidding me? Back years ago, when I worked retail. I had to be in @ 3a Friday to be ready for a 4a open. OK thats fine. I can understand one day a year we "go nuts" and do that. What I dont understand, like this year, is some stores opened at 10pm Thursday night and had "hourly" sales all through the night on different items. So you had to be there at a certain time to get it at a certain price. My question is this. Who the hell is going to work these shifts and more importantly... WHY would you work them?
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\Its funny me to me because now with the Internet, the same sales are online by Monday anyway and with free shipping. Best Buy for example had over 95% of the same sales Friday as they did Monday. So why the getting their at noon time Thursday for a midnight opening to get the SAME deals online just 3 days later? So I can get a "free" $10 accessory in trade for stupidity and violence? You can keep it! Many other stores here offered the EXACT same sales and even printed it in the ads. But still people rush the doors, push and shove. Even fight and threaten lives for what? A video game? A TV? Last year, some poor employee @ Walmart here (sorry SG) got bum rushed when he opened the doors and got killed by the brainless stampede of people. This is where common sense is needed. I say "Black Friday" should become an INTERNET ONLY THING starting Friday night to Monday night. Plain and simple!
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\Now I know nothing beats actually going to the store to look at/hold/feel/ and compare in your actual hands. But hear me out. Stores release their "secret Black Friday sales ads" at the beginning of November. There not that hard to find, online or even in the store. Just have to ask the right person. Do your research BEFORE hand and see if the item(s) will be on the Internet sale. 95% they will be! And then you have nearly 4 weeks to look around without anyone else trying to rape you for that piece of clothing you have or TV. Ive never shopped in store on Black Friday or any day close to it. Ive waited till Monday with the Internet Sales and have gotten every thing on my list... except of course those 10 dollar ear buds that I wouldve gotten free had I waited in line for 12 plus hours! Oh but wait... limit 5 per store and no rain checks!
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pft this shit is why I'm gonna tell them I'll work friday but I refuse to work at night for those sells. either that or like this past Black Friday I'm calling off
ReplyDelete*shrug* You just wait at some point black Friday Sales are gonna start on December 26th and last till December 25th
ReplyDeleteBack in my day (lol) it was mandatory to work some part of Black Friday for all employees. Of course if you had a second job/fucking the store GM/or had some dirt on a GM or M you didnt have to work... or so it went.
ReplyDeleteStill, is it that hard to actually have a plan when it comes to this? The Internet had the exact same sales. You just have to wait a few more days for it to get to your home.
Typically the Internet may have the same sales or so the sales add says. But I know at Best Buy (the one around here at least) if you went in on Black Friday to do your shopping, you got a 50.00 cash rebate from your order, and if you paid cash you got an additional 20% off the entire purchase. Just something to think about vs online shopping
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