Subj : Re: Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
To   : Blue White
From : claw
Date : Wed Nov 29 2023 11:30 am

On 29 Nov 2023, Blue White said the following...
 
 BW> -=> claw wrote to apam <=-
 BW> 
 BW>  cl> The reason Black Friday is a whole week plus a Monday, is due to how
 BW>  cl> many people have died as a result.  Look up Black Friday on youtube.
 BW>  cl> Watch stampedes, people fighting each other, and several other scammy
 BW>  cl> things.  They used to do things like the first 100 people get this de
 BW>  cl> or something like that.  After several law suits they then started
 BW>  cl> making people line up and then fights broke out.
 BW> 
 BW> If you watch any "Black Friday" videos from the US this year, you will
 BW> likely see a couple of things:
 BW> 
 BW> 1) some videos that show hardly anyone there when the doors open -- that
 BW> is not heard of, even after Black Friday was extended beyond Friday, but
 BW> happened a lot this year.
 BW> 
 BW> 2) other videos where there are some big knock-down drag-out fights in
 BW> malls that don't appear directly related to the shopping experience, i.e.
 BW> they didn't happen when the stores opened and people were fighting to get
 BW> in, but rather in the common areas and food courts.
 BW> 
 BW> You will also find some mass shoplifting videos.
 BW> 
 BW> The fighting ones look more violent than anything I ever remember seeing
 BW> from the old Black Friday.  People having clothes ripped off, being
 BW> dragged by close and hair, large groups fighting each other, etc.
 BW> 
 BW> Part of the "Black Friday" extension has less to do with what used to
 BW> happen on Fridays as it does with an attempt to compete with online
 BW> retailers who started "Cyber Monday" a few years back and also extended
 BW> some of their deals into the weekend leading up to that Monday, which is
 BW> the Black Friday weekend.
 BW> 
 BW> 

I'm glad it's now more just stupid people being stupid rather than the greed of insanity going on.

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