Dark Friday

[Limited]

Customers hit by pepper spray at Wal-Mart describe scene of chaos
Matthew Lopez went to the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch on Thursday night for the Black Friday sale but instead was caught in a pepper-spray attack by a woman who authorities said was "competitive shopping.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/at-wal-mart-pepper-spray-attack-triggered-chaos-screaming.html

(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/at-wal-mart-pepper-spray-attack-triggered-chaos-screaming.html)When will America learn?

[ThePlague]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/original/000/207/251/Walmart.jpg?1322248416

[DarkHalo003]

I think this is hilarious. It isn't "when will America learn," it's "wow, some people are just fucking nuts."

[cheezdue]

http://www.waff.com/story/16119585/black-friday-shooting-at-myrtle-beach-walmart

:eyesroll:
(http://www.waff.com/story/16119585/black-friday-shooting-at-myrtle-beach-walmart)

[StankBacon]

(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/at-wal-mart-pepper-spray-attack-triggered-chaos-screaming.html)When will America learn?

right, because people aren't assholes everywhere else in the world too.

[Tnnaas]

right, because people aren't assholes everywhere else in the world too.True, but most Americans tend to take things to the extreme.

[Pooky]

True, but most Americans tend to take things to the extreme.

Cool generalization.

[dark navi]

I went to Walmart one time.

[=sw=warlord]

right, because people aren't assholes everywhere else in the world too.
Forgive Limited, take pity on him even, for he is Chav


:gonk: (http://chav.urbanup.com/123555)

[Kornman00]

True, but most Americans tend to take things to the extreme.
Humans tend to take things to the extreme. See the Christian Crusades, WW2/Holocaust, African dictators, suicide bombers, so on.
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When will America learn?
Probably at the same time when the English stop paying for over-the-top and pointless weddings for the "royal" family!

[king_nothing_]

Forgive Limited, take pity on him even, for he is Chav (http://chav.urbanup.com/123555) xenophobic


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[Limited]

right, because people aren't assholes everywhere else in the world too.
The same shit happened last year. Shit got out of hand and people died, and the year before that too. http://www.modacity.net/forums/showthread.php?19575-Black-Friday/page2&highlight=black+friday

The concept of Black Friday is fundamental flawed, they need to expand the time period (and bring prices up so its even), to reduce the amount of rampages people go on. Its the sheer factor of dirt cheap prices only available in a small time window that make people go ape shit and disregard other people's safety just for personal game.

So I reiterate, When will America learn, from past Black Fridays that its a bad situation just waiting to go wrong?

(PS, doesn't matter what country it happens in).

[Kornman00]

When will you learn that greed trumps logic? And stores have started BF earlier (which some people actually complained about for some reason lol)

[Mr Buckshot]

check cracked.com, it happens every time there's a massive sale that crowds can't resist. the incidents that happen on Black Friday just get more media coverage, that's all.

Imagine if your local game stores suddenly said, "Today I'm selling a brand new console copy of every recent big hit for 10 quid, supplies limited." You don't think there will be a massive stampede with people getting hurt? Hell I bet the roads leading to the stores will turn into dangerous racing tracks. Doesn't matter what day of the year it is.

[Bodzilla]

this isnt anything new.
all you have to do is look at video rental stores and watch their sales for ex-rental DVD's. It's not an american thing... it's the way it is.

The entire reason they do things like blackfriday is to make money.
By dropping their prices they need to sell ALOT more in a short amount of time to make the same amount of profit. So they set the store up for 1 day a year, where they have more people on hand to put them through checkouts, and advertise like crazy so they can get these massive turn-overs.

Having a quieter day or spreading it over multiple days is very bad because regardless of how much they sell, they have to pay their staff the same amount for their hours.

[JackalStomper]

the wal-mart near my place got totally bombed. Went there today to do some christmas shopping and nearly everything was out of stock

[Kornman00]

so instead just:
1. Shop online
2. Spend
3. ???
4. Unprofit :mech:

[Cortexian]

I'm going to shoot you all so I can get my Steam sales first!!

[Amit]

LOL. Oh yeah, cyber monday today. Be ready.