People are out there shopping today, Black Friday, and taking advantage of all of the pretty good deals retailers are having.
One of the big chain furniture stores is having a really awesome sale today, and along with showing off their newest line of clean-lined modern furniture, they are also doing a gift card deal.
If you buy $100 worth of furniture or home decor, they give you a gift card for $100.
Considering this is a furniture store, shoppers can easily walk away with up to a couple thousand in gift cards.
It's a matching dollar for dollar sale/deal, and that's really awesome.
I wish I had the money to spend just to get those gift cards for later use, they have no expiration dates and none of those no usage fees on them either.
One of the guys on the local forums went out this morning and bought a new living room set, and walked out with $2,000 in gift cards to use later or give away as gifts for Christmas.
But I never go shopping on Black Friday unless I absolutely have to.
People get really crazy trying to grab up all of the good deals, and they will trample you to death just to get in the store.
A Walmart employee was trampled to death as he opened the store this morning.
He was bum rushed by over 200 people as he unlocked and opened the doors.
A woman at the same store, was knocked to the ground and had a miscarriage after being trampled as well.
People are savages when trying to get a good bargain.
The incident was caught on store security cameras.
These people are savages.
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One of the big chain furniture stores is having a really awesome sale today, and along with showing off their newest line of clean-lined modern furniture, they are also doing a gift card deal.
If you buy $100 worth of furniture or home decor, they give you a gift card for $100.
Considering this is a furniture store, shoppers can easily walk away with up to a couple thousand in gift cards.
It's a matching dollar for dollar sale/deal, and that's really awesome.
I wish I had the money to spend just to get those gift cards for later use, they have no expiration dates and none of those no usage fees on them either.
One of the guys on the local forums went out this morning and bought a new living room set, and walked out with $2,000 in gift cards to use later or give away as gifts for Christmas.
But I never go shopping on Black Friday unless I absolutely have to.
People get really crazy trying to grab up all of the good deals, and they will trample you to death just to get in the store.
A Walmart employee was trampled to death as he opened the store this morning.
He was bum rushed by over 200 people as he unlocked and opened the doors.
A woman at the same store, was knocked to the ground and had a miscarriage after being trampled as well.
People are savages when trying to get a good bargain.
The incident was caught on store security cameras.
These people are savages.
Stories like the Wal-Mart thing make me all the gladder I no longer work in retail. Black Friday sure has gotten even more insane then it was back in my retail days, and it gets worse every year.
I don't go out and shop on that day, either, for the same reasons. Much easier (and safer) to shop online, there are plenty of good deals there, too.
It's a sad world, knowing that some people value getting a bargain on a big screen TV or a Blu-Ray player more than they do human life.
Shaking head in disgust over this story...
Looks like another law suit is forming. Walmart averages three lawsuits a day. That is ridiculous. They are going to have to start getting law enforcment involved from now on to make sure this type of thing never happens again. This is absolutely crazy!
Eventually, these things are going to have to stop. What I know about people is that it's never about saving the money. It's a sport. And they will compete. Because they have to outdo each other. At all costs.
These stores advertise ridiculous prices, then stock WAY less than they need to meet the demand they just created, and engineer a stressful environment in which MOST shoppers are NOT going to get what they want, which typically pisses people off.
I think it's a crap deal all the way around