I shopped at Walmart last year after Thanksgiving dinner and it was a blast. Am looking forward to doing it again this year with a friend.
I’ll be doing my bit for the economy on Thursday evening. Walgreen’s is always open.
Back in 2010, after being out of work for more than a year, the very first job I got was a part time seasonal job at Target. Of course I had to work Black Friday but then I was just so grateful to have a job, any job and was even more appreciative to work the Black Friday shift starting at Midnight because we were paid a .60 per hour holiday premium. And I have to say that the management at the Target store where I worked at showed their appreciation by providing food (breakfast, lunch and dinner), snacks, Christmas cookies and drinks that entire weekend and after the Christmas season was over, we all got $10 gift cards. I worked my but off (I worked the sales floor stocking, helping customers, working a cash register when the lines got long) but I actually enjoyed it, especially working the toy aisle. On Black Friday I was assigned to help with crowd control stationed to help move the line along in an orderly fashion and help customers or answer their questions. I had never been shopping on Black Friday myself but I was very impressed with how organized this store was. A few customers complained about the long lines but most told me they were very pleased with how fast the lines moved and how orderly it was.