This make me ashamed of being american

[jammix]

in europe they have Black Friday sales, but these usually last 2-5 days, individual stores will have discounts for the whole week, most only friday and sunday.
I honestly can't believe how many violent incidents in america in this stupid "black friday".

 

[purbeast0]

Damnit wish I had sound here at work!

 

[SKORPI0]

they should ban people putting up tents.

 

[master_shake_]

only on black friday in america can you say "i'm going shopping, if i am not home in 3 hours check the morgue."

 

[UncleWai]

They need an unferground pit fighting walmart. Shoppers get a discount based on the amount of hurt they put on others.

 

[IronWing]

Put the media freaks in the pit with them, knock those blood sucking smiles right off their faces.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I refuse to shop for anything on Black Friday.

 

[cbrunny]

I don't really understand why any store has black friday sales. Doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. Especially considering the damage to stores and potential for lawsuits and stuff.

I mean... sure its whatever billion dollars in sales each year but really people are going to spend that money anyway. It's the freakin holidays.

I dunno. I'd close shop if I were a store owner.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Anyone that 'goes' out to Black Friday for shopping deserves to die. Stupid in==Stupid Out. Amazing how many people find their life as being valueless.

I suppose the silver lining to this is an equal portion of stupid will breed again and make up for as life lost on BF.

 

[Brovane]

This type of stuff is why Best Buy uses wrist bands for high demand items on "Black Friday".

 

[Kaido]

I think Black Friday is the new version of the western land rush days they'd have in the past.

 

[Kaido]

This make me ashamed of being American

I just binge-watched "Stephen Fry in America" on Netflix this past weekend (really well-done show, would highly recommend it) & it's amazing the scope & variety of situations that we have in America. Fry hits up all 50 states & visits the good parts and the bad parts. There are some parts that do make you feel pretty crappy for being an American, whether it's the times we've done poorly military-wise in our own country (like shooting & killing protesting college students in the past) & other countries, or how we've treated Native Americans, or how we handle the issues of homelessness & prisoner rehabilitation. We are definitely not a perfect country, but the show does highlight a lot of the unique & good characteristics that we do have as a country to kind of balance things out.

 

[purbeast0]

Black Friday was so much more fun before it was a "thing". It's now just a spectacle that the retailers have completely ruined.

 

[biostud]

But the sales are mostly in the 20-25 pecent range and are therefore moot. I only bought a steam game with 75 percent off.

 

[nathanddrews]

Not sure a compilation of videos constitutes sweeping generalizations, but having worked retail a lot of years and also worked retail security I can say that BF altercations usually occur in locations where there are already behavioral problems with customers. It's not like "teh sw33t deelz" caused these people to act out.

#memberberries
BF used to be an enjoyable experience when the deals were actually worthwhile as it was the brick/mortar stores only real chance to compete with e-tailers. However, now the deals are basically all about as low as they can go all year, e-tailers have "Black November" and run the same ad for an entire month with very little in the way of great deals. Even funnier, the exact laptop that I bought from Amazon two weeks ago is on sale on Amazon today for $100 more than I paid. Low prices/low margins are the norm in most retail channels, so there's nowhere else for product pricing to go. The only real deals now are on discontinued crap no one would normally buy.

 

[dabuddha]

Black Friday needs to be shutdown. 5pm on fucking Thanksgiving now

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Capitalism works! Nothing like watching grown-ass adults fighting over toilet paper and towels.

 

[LevelSea]

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

 

[Sonikku]

It's consumerism run amok. Seeing such depravity towards our fellow man fills me with disgust and great sadness.

 

[Raduque]

Every time I've done a Black Friday, it's always been fairly quiet. One year, some guy tried to cut the line at Best Buy (which went past another store around the building to the back loading dock), but literally everybody made him go to the back. I was #8 or 9 in line that time. Another year, the type of people who typically cause problems in a public setting, were threatening people because they wanted $5 kid's PJs at Walmart. Police were called and those people were forced to behave.

I went to Best Buy last year on Thanksgiving around 7pm and grabbed a nice Dell laptop for $250 (half price) and everybody just stood in the line as it moved forward. You got to the counter with whatever you had off the shelf, told them if you wanted one of the cheap laptops, paid and left.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Santa isn't going to be happy...and..mindless zombies is right . These days black friday 'deals' are nothing special. People are so manipulated. There is almost zero reason to go to a physical store on BF these days.

 

[Anubis]

There is almost zero reason to go to a physical store these days.

fixed that for you

 

[Thebobo]

they should ban people putting up tents.

And shooting vertical video

 

[Darwin333]

I don't really understand why any store has black friday sales. Doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. Especially considering the damage to stores and potential for lawsuits and stuff.

I mean... sure its whatever billion dollars in sales each year but really people are going to spend that money anyway. It's the freakin holidays.

I dunno. I'd close shop if I were a store owner.

Well they sell a few items below their price and purposefully have a rather small inventory of said items and while people are there they buy a ton of normally priced items or items that have been marked down a very small amount so they can put the sale sign on them. All of those people showed up with money to spend and despite missing the dirt cheap TV they wanted the vast majority aren't going to leave the store empty handed.

 

[Raduque]

Well they sell a few items below their price and purposefully have a rather small inventory of said items and while people are there they buy a ton of normally priced items or items that have been marked down a very small amount so they can put the sale sign on them. All of those people showed up with money to spend and despite missing the dirt cheap TV they wanted the vast majority aren't going to leave the store empty handed.

Yep, they're called loss leaders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader