Is Over!
Mark Levin calls them the Praetorian Guard Media. And that’s exactly what they are.
They could fly over the gun stores if they wish to see crowds. That’s the one place where his policies have created a business buzz.
Maybe the calls for a Black Friday boycott were purely cynical, just another attempt to cover for Obama.
They can claim it “worked” while providing another reason for the empty stores that would be problematic to report under normal circumstances.
The onsite media can’t count all of those who are home in their pj’s ordering off the internet.
WalMart here is busier than normal but not sufficient to deter me should I need something there. A few years ago I would NOT go to any major store Thanksgiving wekeend and only dire need would take me to a big store between mid November and January 2.
Who in their right mind would want to run the risk (a very likely one) of being in the middle of a store melee led by Ferguson type rioters?
The laws of unintended consequences at work.
I would attribute a good bit of it to a general hostility towards Black Friday in general. A lot of people (myself included) have realized that it’s not worth the hassle of dealing with the crowds, regardless of the savings involved. I went once, and it simply doesn’t add up.
While much of the action has moved online these days, where people point and click on merchandise that will arrive in their driveway via UPS truck (the smart way to go), the stores are still mobbed and you are going to wait a half hour in line at the Starbucks to get a $5 frappuccino.
Half the women in America are currently at or on their way to a department store as I type this.
My own house is empty of females (why couldn't they show the football games on this day?) and I'm left to rummage the refrigerator for leftovers and hang some Christmas lights. Actually a nice quiet day for me. But wish there was at least one NFL game on today which would give me an excuse to get to the Buffalo Wild Wings for a few glasses of stout.
Couldn’t find any twine to finish a yard cleaning project I did yesterday to work off dinner and put a lot of branch trimmings out for the trashman today. So I went to Walgreens. About four other cars in the parking lot, but no luck with the twine. Drove over to Big Lots. Same story on the parking lot, but got my twine.
I used to avoid getting out on Thanksgiving weekend just because I disliked the hassle and the crowds. But in the last few years, I’ve developed more and more of a revulsion towards Black Friday. I think it’s due to the way it has almost culturally supplanted Thanksgiving itself as the holiday.
Seeing both national and local news broadcasts ignoring the actual holiday, and going immediately to live remotes of black-coated hordes of doofuses at night waiting in line at some electronics store to buy video-games on sale the next day, or footage of packed shoppers spewing through doors like rats in a grain-elevator, it’s just made the whole thing a grotesque turn-off for me.
Black Friday reveal EMPTY STORES...
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Some enterprising doll manufacturer should come out with a Michael Brown Autopsy Doll, complete with a chest opener, scalpels and sewing kit.
It would be great fun for the whole family to enjoy AND it would help stock those empty shelves. /sarc
No one I know is doing any Black Friday shopping. Don’t know of anyone going all out on any gift giving. Everyone has too much junk and doesn’t want any more.
I see a significant number of these “gibsmedats riots” occurred on Black Friday in the UK. Without a Thanksgiving Day, isn’t “Black Friday” just “Friday” in England?