I know when we lived there, in the month before and after the payment is made, ads for big screen TV's and down payments for a new car flood the TV and newspapers.
I made the huge mistake of dropping by Costco while in Los Anchorage last week. I had business in town and just wanted to check out the price on something. After wading through lines of baskets at every open checkout counter I realized what day it was. Obviously I exited asap. You could not pay me enough to go to WalMart on PFD day either