You'll find me baggin' on Black Friday
Jessica Holt
Issue date: 11/16/09 Section: Opinion
T'is the season for sales, sales, sales. At this time of the year, every store starts lowering the prices on their merchandise so that they can attract more business. Due to the struggling economy however, the end-of-the-year savings have started a little earlier. Every store wants as many people as they can get to walk in for the savings and walk out with more stuff and less cash in their pockets. The biggest day to save is Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.
Every retailer has their most enticing merchandise lowered to "must have" prices. Then they start the sale ridiculously early in the morning so people have to wake up before the crack of dawn just to get to the store and grab the sale. But when you get to the store there is already a line. So you have to wait outside in a line full of pushy, crabby,cold people who all want the same thing you do while still trying to fight off their turkey comas from the night before. To recap, you are standing outside in the freezing cold, pushed against complete strangers, working with very little, if any, sleep at all before the sun has even begun to rise.
If you happen to be one of the lucky, or crazy, few who has managed to make it to the front of the line, as soon as those doors open you have to literally run around the store like a mad man to get what you came for before the store is sold out. If you are at the back of the line, you are out of luck. Most stores only have a first come first served basis on Black Friday and will not issue you a rain check. If they offered rain checks it would slow down the cashiers while they wrote it out, which would in turn cost the store money. And if rain checks were issued then no one would get up early to get the sale and Black Friday would become just like any other Friday, well people might actually sleep off some of the food they ate on Thanksgiving.
Also it would be a good idea, if you are planning to shop on Black Friday, to make a plan of where you want to go, and persuade as many family members into helping as you can.
Every retailer has their most enticing merchandise lowered to "must have" prices. Then they start the sale ridiculously early in the morning so people have to wake up before the crack of dawn just to get to the store and grab the sale. But when you get to the store there is already a line. So you have to wait outside in a line full of pushy, crabby,cold people who all want the same thing you do while still trying to fight off their turkey comas from the night before. To recap, you are standing outside in the freezing cold, pushed against complete strangers, working with very little, if any, sleep at all before the sun has even begun to rise.
If you happen to be one of the lucky, or crazy, few who has managed to make it to the front of the line, as soon as those doors open you have to literally run around the store like a mad man to get what you came for before the store is sold out. If you are at the back of the line, you are out of luck. Most stores only have a first come first served basis on Black Friday and will not issue you a rain check. If they offered rain checks it would slow down the cashiers while they wrote it out, which would in turn cost the store money. And if rain checks were issued then no one would get up early to get the sale and Black Friday would become just like any other Friday, well people might actually sleep off some of the food they ate on Thanksgiving.
Also it would be a good idea, if you are planning to shop on Black Friday, to make a plan of where you want to go, and persuade as many family members into helping as you can.
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