If I was retailer I would mark everything in my store up 300% a week before "black Friday" and then slap an 50% off sale sticker on it.
If people are that crazy to spend money, I might as well pull a furniture store scam on them and make some cash on their own stupidity.
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I think you have it all wrong. You should mark everything up 300% and advertise that there will be no lines or fights at your store and keep your prices the way they are!
Sure these people are animals but isn't it up to the stores to have some zookeepers?
I've been to many Boxing Day sales at opening and they have always allowed a certain amount of people in at a time. There were also lines outside, and not just masses of people. Usually the employees would come out and ask the first several people in line what doorcrashers they wanted so there would be no mad scramble.
Is this just the difference between the US and Canada? Do these stores want this kind of madness for attention?
I was at a Houston Walmart Black Friday a few years ago. I went just to see what it was all about. Certain items went on sale at different times. There were constant PA announcements for people to stay calm but then two seconds later there would be another PA announcement with a COUNT DOWN, firing people up, to when a specific item was going on sale and then a "GO GO GO!!!" by the announcer. Then I would sit there and watch as an Xbox game display would come crashing down with 20 people on top of it...or people playing tug of war over a $20 waffle maker. My niece stole one of those childrens ride in battery powered cars away from two women that were fighting over it all while Walmart employees just watched and did nothing. There were 3 of these cars for sale at $80, regular $300. There were 200 people there just for that item.
So basically the Walmart employees have no idea how to handle this sale or they want mass hysteria.
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So basically the Walmart employees have no idea how to handle this sale or they want mass hysteria.
They couldn't pay me enough to get myself between folks like that who are going that crazy over some thing.
Especially not with the wages walmart DOES pay. Risk my life and limb for $7/hr? (or whatever minimum wage is in the various States these days) No, thanks, boss. I'll haul out the merch to let the customers fight to the death over it, but no way I'm getting between them and "their" product.
It just seems to me like the retailers are pretty much encouraging this type of behavior by whipping the crowd into a frenzy in the first place. I guess capitalism at its best.
I can't stand shopping, ever. That's why I don't go buy stuff I don't need, especially to save $20.
A little from column a and from column b. The majority of products that are dirt cheap are not main brands. There crap like Emerson and Vezio etc etc....
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Some people are just f'ing stupid!
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One of those lads was Andy Blackett, 30, an estate agent, who had two trolleys full of bargains. “I got two coffee makers, two tablets, two TVs and a stereo,” he said. “I couldn’t tell you the prices, but I know they’re bargains.”
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“I got a Dyson but I don’t even know if I want it. I just picked it up,” Louise Haggerty, a 56-year-old hairdresser and waitress, said of her 1am trip to the Black Friday sales. “It was mental in there. It was crazy. It was absolutely disgusting, disgusting.”
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One of the first purchasers of a flatscreen TV, when TV sales began just before 1am, was James Alled, 30, a businessman, who bought two and was already negotiating to sell one of them to someone further down the queue. “I bought them for £250, I’ll sell it to you for £350, £300 cash,” he said.
