Subj : Re: Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
To   : claw
From : Blue White
Date : Wed Nov 29 2023 09:34:24

-=> claw wrote to apam <=-

 cl> The reason Black Friday is a whole week plus a Monday, is due to how
 cl> many people have died as a result.  Look up Black Friday on youtube.
 cl> Watch stampedes, people fighting each other, and several other scammy
 cl> things.  They used to do things like the first 100 people get this deal
 cl> or something like that.  After several law suits they then started
 cl> making people line up and then fights broke out.

If you watch any "Black Friday" videos from the US this year, you will
likely see a couple of things:

1) some videos that show hardly anyone there when the doors open -- that is
not heard of, even after Black Friday was extended beyond Friday, but
happened a lot this year.

2) other videos where there are some big knock-down drag-out fights in
malls that don't appear directly related to the shopping experience, i.e.
they didn't happen when the stores opened and people were fighting to get
in, but rather in the common areas and food courts.

You will also find some mass shoplifting videos.

The fighting ones look more violent than anything I ever remember seeing
from the old Black Friday.  People having clothes ripped off, being dragged
by close and hair, large groups fighting each other, etc.

Part of the "Black Friday" extension has less to do with what used to
happen on Fridays as it does with an attempt to compete with online
retailers who started "Cyber Monday" a few years back and also extended
some of their deals into the weekend leading up to that Monday, which is
the Black Friday weekend.



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