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ChadTower:

The paper today has a couple stories of the crowds at the Wrentham Outlets when they opened... apparently, there was a small riot at the Coach store.  Only one cop, when the doors opened women rushed the line to skip, women started shoving and kicking, the cop had to get physical to get the doors locked again and call for backup.  When two more cops came, they tried to open the doors to let in groups of 50, and twice more physicality broke out among the women, even with three large male cops standing at the door.

All this for 10% off the regular outlet prices on handbags.

 :dizzy:

WaRpEd:
Try getting up and working at the big box store.
Lotsa fun dealing with 10 to 20 questions at once when sleep deprived. :soapbox:

ChadTower:

They're willing to get arrested to save $30?  Somehow I'm not surprised.

Keep in mind this is at a massive mall with dozens of other similar stores, yet for some reason, nearly all of the problems were at Coach.

FrizzleFried:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 25, 2007, 12:54:57 pm ---
They're willing to get arrested to save $30?  Somehow I'm not surprised.

Keep in mind this is at a massive mall with dozens of other similar stores, yet for some reason, nearly all of the problems were at Coach.

--- End quote ---

Women are savages.   I remember going to Toys R Us with my mom back in about 1985 to get my sister a Cabbage Patch Kid.  There were like 20 at the store and over 50 women in line when the store opened.  My mom tells me as soon as I get in the store to run over and grab a doll.  I do...I get like the 2nd or 3rd to last one...I run back to mom who is just coming down the aisle.  I hand her the doll and as I am handing her the doll some woman SNATCHES IT from my hand!

My mom went FREAKING NUTS!  I'd never seen her go so nuts before and I've never seen it again.  IT WAS BRAWL TIME with my mom and this other fat MOM looking thing kicking, biting, screaming, and fists flying!!! The whole time I am standing there STUNNED.

When all was said and done my father picked me and mom up from the police department... yup,  she was arrested (as was the other mom)...and I got to take my first ride in a black & white...but I got to be up front! 

Funny thing was that neither mom got the doll...it ended up going to some OTHER mom who grabbed it during the fight.

Mom had promised a doll to my sister for Christmas.  She got one alright...$400 is what she paid for it.

$400!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jesus.

meismr:
As for the consumeritis comment; If you're not increasing your consumption of goods but getting better deals on the goods you'd buy anyway, wouldn't it be more economical (which even a minimalist would buy in too (pun intended ;)) to buy the goods on black Friday?  I consider myself a pseudo-minimalist and I shopped on black Friday.  There were great deals on components that I use during the year.  So to sum up... Just because people shop on black Friday doesn't mean that they're rabid consumers.  It just means they like good deals :)

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