Black Friday

[HoyaSaxa03]

what'd ya get?
 
 i actually got off my ass early this morning and went to best buy to try to get their $199 deal on a Westinghouse 22" LCD widescreen monitor, but it was sold out ... so i went to staples and picked this bad boy up:
 
 http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6136884-7.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
 i actually got off my ass early this morning and went to best buy to try to get their $199 deal on a Westinghouse 22" LCD widescreen monitor, but it was sold out ...  

Not surprising.  The Best Buy near my parents'  house had a line 20-30 deep by 7:30pm last night.  Ugh.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
 Not surprising.  The Best Buy near my parents'  house had a line 20-30 deep by 7:30pm last night.  Ugh.

that's just disgusting

[alex]

The Best Buy in Waldorf already had a line at 7:00 last night, so I noticed when I was heading back up here last night from my parents' house.
 
 It's soooo dead downtown at work today.  I love it.

[chokeychicken]

since when do people line up in the cold to save a few bucks?

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by Alex:
  The Best Buy in Waldorf...

That's the line I saw  

[beetsnotbeats]

Originally posted by chokeychicken:
  since when do people line up in the cold to save a few bucks?

I guess you don't watch the news much since it's been going on for while. Nevertheless, it's a good question. When did stores really start to hype Black Friday sales? What is the media's role? Why do they lie about the reason for the name "Black Friday?" If you've ever worked retail on that day you know what it means, and it has nothing to do with profits.

[Guiny]

I'm suprised people aren't in an uproar over Black Friday being a racist statement.

[Christine Moritz]

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
 Why do they lie about the reason for the name "Black Friday?"

What's the "real" reason?  I didn't see any sordid controversy noted in the Wikipedia entry.

[Che]

There was a best buy on the news that had a line at 2 in the afternoon yesterday.  What a waist of a day.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

I don't mean to sound élitist, but if you're poor enough that you need to stand in line for hours outside to shop at a store, then you probably shouldn't be shopping at Best Buy in the first place.   And if you're not poor enough that you have to do that, you're a freakin' idiot.
 
 Although not as much of a loser as those who lined up for their PS-3s...

[HoyaSaxa03]

... and you could say the same thing about people frantically clicking "reload" on ticketmaster.com for 30 minutes ... it's all a matter of perspective, i'm sure a lot of people actually enjoyed going through that whole rigamarole, however crazy that sounds

[Medusa]

I was working today and at the shop I am at (White House|Black Market in Georgetown) we called it Green Friday.  
 
 Cheers
 
 DJ Medusa.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Whose waist are you referring to?
 
 

Originally posted by Che:
  There was a best buy on the news that had a line at 2 in the afternoon yesterday.  What a waist of a day.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Because black people come out in droves on that day.
 
 At least that's what my wife says; she worked at K-Mart as a teen.
 
 

Originally posted by Christine Moritz:
   

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
 Why do they lie about the reason for the name "Black Friday?"

What's the "real" reason?  I didn't see any sordid controversy noted in the Wikipedia entry. [/b]