A Short Rant on Black Friday December 7, 2008
Posted by Cam in Uncategorized.trackback
You know what really grinds my gears? (Shameless Family Guy reference, for those of you that caught it.) Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The day after Thanksgiving, we oh-so-frugal Americans kick off the holiday season with a day where stores make huge sales. They advertise ridiculously low prices on “this season’s hottest gear/electronics/whatever else” (Another thing: Hottest – such an overused advertising buzzword), but “only today! So hurry in right now!”. So, in this economy, who in their right mind wouldn’t go and get 99% off the newest computer? Well. I think that these “holidays” are just dumb. If my facts are correct “Black Friday” is a real Christian holiday, but I don’t know exactly about what. Now we’re giving it the wrong connotation. Now all you hear is “Black Friday deals!” and “Only today, Black Friday, 70% off!”. In addition, in an extreme effort to receive these deals, the companies are promoting the consumer to wake up (or stay up rather) at 2 AM to stand in line in freezing cold weather, and people do it to get the deals. That’s fine, if you really want the $1000 off the TV. However, what happened at a Wal-Mart on Black Friday is unforgivable. As people were charging in, an employee holding the doors open was trampled TO DEATH and the customers KEPT SHOPPING, even after the other employees ordered them out of the building because someone had DIED. That’s simply no-brainer. No amount of money is worth the life oh a human being. I don’t care if it was 50000% off and they were paying you to take them. There is no excuse for that behavior-and the big corporations are only egging it on by providing these ridiculous deals on only one day. Maybe we should allow these deals at a lesser extent but for a longer period of time. When people think they have to be the first one in the store to get the product, that’s when the consumers trample other people and each other to achieve it. People are naturally attracted to money, and by correlation to deals that save them money. Regardless, it is absolutely inexcusable to kill people over MONEY.
So, Black Friday and other days with the same idea really do grind my gears. Created by corporation so that they will reap the profits – but with the potential consequences of human lives.
I agree 100% with you. I heard that story on the news, and I was like, whoa, what savages. I mean, who the hell would care for a product that much to kill over it? That’s so stupid!!! I know it was an accident, but still, if someone fell over, I would help them up, not step on them to get over them to that new shiny tv I wanted. That’s just lame.
And I just recently found out about Black Friday. I never knew about it before, lol. So I can say that my family and I have never gone shopping on Black Friday. Partly because my parents have to go back to work. But like, that Friday my mom took the day off and we still didn’t go. What’s the point? I think the concept of waiting in line for hours on end until the store opens just to get a better deal on something is stupid.
On another note, I totally just realised that the snow collects at the bottom of the screen!!! ^_^ If I let my computer stay on this page for like, an hour, will it be full of snow? *stares* Lol!!
Yeah I am proud to say I have never gone shopping on black friday. My friend who went was texting me the whole time and apparently it was really crowded. But I mean even if the discounts are AMAZING is it really worth it? I would rather pay a few extra dollars to wait in a line that isn’t going out the door. Lines just suck. And that’s absolutely ridiculous about the dude who got trampled.
Neither have I (gone shopping on Black Friday).
In theory, yes, mathgeek, but actually the snowflake things disappear after being on the bottom for about 5 seconds. Try watching one for a few seconds. It will disappear, so the page doesn’t fill up with snow.
I wanted the page to fill up with snow too. And sorry guys, but I totally didn’t know the floor was supposed to be squishy and lumpy. And then when I heard a crack i started to feel odd.
…and then I kept shopping because I thought it was just a a bag filled with bones and sand.
LOL Kirbycurse!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD XD XD
And hey, long time no see. Or more like hear. Or read… Idk, whatever you want to call it, lol.
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read i guess