'Black Friday' madness

B.A._Baracus · 28-11-2012 11:44PM #1

A video making the rounds on the internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qRs2dBoK0

This was shot in a Walmart store last friday. The items in question are cheap mobile phones the people are after.

Imagine if there was a war on :pac:

frozenfrozen · 28-11-2012 11:45PM

These people haven't discovered that there's a place where you can get cheap deals all year round... it's called the internet

Sky King · 28-11-2012 11:45PM

Whats a black friday?

kowloon · 28-11-2012 11:46PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nTTy4RLcFA

krudler · 28-11-2012 11:46PM

what the hell was that filmed on? an etch-a-sketch?

Hogata · 28-11-2012 11:46PM

Sale on

Sky King · 28-11-2012 11:46PM

Whats a cyber monday?

El Guapo! · 28-11-2012 11:47PM

Shouldn't it be called "ethnic minority Friday" so nobody gets offended?

:pac:

B.A._Baracus · 28-11-2012 11:47PM

Sky King wrote: »

Whats a black friday?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oByDzHGqFsQ

:pac:

El Guapo! · 28-11-2012 11:48PM

krudler wrote: »

what the hell was that filmed on? an etch-a-sketch?

Genuine lol.

Just so you know, I'm stealing this line and passing it off as my own.

kowloon · 28-11-2012 11:50PM

Sky King wrote: »

Whats a cyber monday?

'twas made by an angry person who doesn't like black Friday.

He can go on some rants. Linky.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 28-11-2012 11:55PM

Jesus that's scary. I wouldn't put myself through that if they were giving shit away for free.

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Imagine if there was a war on :pac:

Yeah or some kind of collapse of the system where food supplies are dwindling... understanding more now why preppers are so keen on having a gun handy.

steve9859 · 28-11-2012 11:57PM

Sky King wrote: »

Whats a black friday?

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving when retail stores in America move from the red into the black for the year, hence 'black friday'. I used to live over there....the sales that day are truly nuts!

Frank Black · 29-11-2012 12:03AM

Looks like fun.

I wish the weekly trip to the supermarket was as exciting.

Cantona's Collars · 29-11-2012 12:07AM

black francis wrote: »

Looks like fun.

I wish the weekly trip to the supermarket was as exciting.

Go to the reduced to clear section in Tesco when they start to mark down prices,it looks like a game of rugby at times.

ArtyM · 29-11-2012 12:09AM

Thats scary.
Some of those Women were really holding their own in that melee.
Hope the person filming it wasnt doing so on one of the phones they were fighting over, cause that is one seriously ****ty camera.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 29-11-2012 12:11AM

black francis wrote: »

Looks like fun.

I wish the weekly trip to the supermarket was as exciting.

Meh, it's no Supermarket Sweep...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKgTdgUWp8k

vicwatson · 29-11-2012 12:14AM

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

A video making the rounds on the internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qRs2dBoK0

This was shot in a Walmart store last friday. The items in question are cheap mobile phones the people are after.

Imagine if there was a war on :pac:

There are wars on;)

These people are like animals !

fasttalkerchat · 29-11-2012 12:17AM

temming from Black Friday unruliness in 2011, 73-year old greeter Jan Sullivan was fired from a Tampa area Wal-Mart after she was shoved by a Black Friday shopper. Sullivan alleges that when she attempted to stop an unnamed woman from exiting through a door where exits were not being permitted, the woman pushed her. Sullivan claims that as she fell, she instinctively tried to grab onto the woman to keep from falling. Since Wal-Mart employees are not allowed to touch customers, Sullivan was then fired. The story has been a source of some controversy for Wal-Mart and garnered much community support for Sullivan, including media coverage and at least two Indiegogo fundraisers were launched to support her financially after the incident.

This really pisses me off. I think this "the customer is always right" attitude has gone too far. The customer is usually wrong and staff are treated like ****.
Staff have been killed because their employers put them in serious danger on Black Friday.

Maximus Alexander · 29-11-2012 12:21AM

Jaysus, watching that really made me feel like part of the upper echelons of human kind.

I feel smugly superior.

Remmy · 29-11-2012 12:27AM

How much do they usually discount the stock by? I can't think of something that I'd want bad enough to have to endure that bullsh/t. I hate people standing too close behind me at the checkout ffs.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 29-11-2012 12:45AM

Remmy wrote: »

I hate people standing too close behind me at the checkout ffs.

Especially the people who also jingle their coins in an impatient manner while I'm dealing with the cashier. As if that's going to speed up the process. I don't often have to restrain myself from punching someone in the face, but those people try me.

WoollyRedHat · 29-11-2012 12:46AM

A sad and pathetic exemplificationof our continous and neverending materialistic obsession... but hey, got to feed the kids , right.

NIMAN · 29-11-2012 12:53AM

Sad knowing how much the human race can achieve, and then see this to see how low it can set its aspirations.

Fighting over junk mobile phones the place probably wants rid off anyway.

And all to quench our desire to have more 'stuff'.

Anthony O Brien · 29-11-2012 12:55AM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Staff have been killed because their employers put them in serious danger on Black Friday.

link?

fasttalkerchat · 29-11-2012 01:33AM

Anthony O Brien wrote: »

link?

Link for the news stories? Just google it.
There's an easy to follow one: http://www.ranker.com/list/13-most-brutal-black-friday-injuries-and-deaths/john-barryman

Faith+1 · 29-11-2012 01:36AM

WTF is black friday?

Remmy · 29-11-2012 01:37AM

Faith+1 wrote: »

WTF is black friday?

It's like pink friday minus the autotune

keith16 · 29-11-2012 01:39AM

Faith+1 wrote: »

WTF is black friday?

See post #13 of this very thread.

ArtSmart · 29-11-2012 01:45AM

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

This really pisses me off. I think this "the customer is always right" attitude has gone too far. The customer is usually wrong and staff are treated like ****.
Staff have been killed because their employers put them in serious danger on Black Friday.

it's advertising gold for walmarts etc.

deaths linked to it in 2010 were 5 or 6.

someday they'll get sued. until then, it's free world wide advertising (if loss of life is defined as free - and i think on most balance sheets, it is)

Killer Wench · 29-11-2012 01:51AM

Remmy wrote: »

How much do they usually discount the stock by? I can't think of something that I'd want bad enough to have to endure that bullsh/t. I hate people standing too close behind me at the checkout ffs.

Best Buy had a 32 inch tv for $98 and a 40 inch at $179. Blue Ray for $40.

'Black Friday' madness

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