I'm no longer a Black Friday Friend. Really, I never was, but I was just thinking that I almost completely ignore it now. I don't really look up anything and I tune out adverts as if it was a Presidents Day sale or something. Not sure if I'm missing anything or not but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
It's a Friday, and it's a day off, so sign me up!
Funny, I worked retail in college and always needed to be on hand for Black Friday. I opted for the afternoon shifts (if they'd grant the request....) and seeing the shopped out zombies was always a highlight of my holiday season. One year I had the am shift - on site at 5 am for a 7 am opening - and a woman in who'd waited in line since 4 am for a beanie baby gift bag got so agitated with employees trying to enter the store that she punched a coworker in the head. Needless to say she spent the next night in the clink with no beanie baby to show.
I got an email from Seido this morning letting their customers know that they were no longer participating in black Friday, small business Saturday, or Cyber Monday and that they'd be closing their web store until Tuesday. They also asked their customers to question what we are purchasing and examine if we really need the thing we were about to purchase........ I think I became a Seido customer for life today.
this is kind of depressing