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Black Friday 2008 recap
The shopping is finally over (or at least dwindling for some brave souls). Like many of you, I ventured out after nearly no sleep at 3 a.m. to be in line at the Beavercreek Kohl’s by 3:30 (store opening at 4 a.m.).
I made the adventure a lot more fun by going with two friends. It’s much easier to get everything you’re after if you are in it together.
By heading for various departments and picking up each others desired items in said departments, we cut down on wasted time and met up at the checkout. We were in and out of most of our stores within (and sometimes much less than) an hour.
I will note that while we didn’t originally plan to, we did head to Walmart for a quick look at their morning bargains. While definitely not as violent as the tragedy in a New York Walmart where an employee was knocked down and died in a stampede of shoppers, we did notice an air of hostility and overall atmosphere of people being rude and flat out mean. The employees were doing the best they could and trying to move things along and keep things under control, but at least in the electronics area, it was an instant roar of people pushing, shoving and yelling when the 5 a.m. “Let the shopping begin” announcement was made.
I finally got what I was after (1 item!) and found a line that didn’t seem too long. 30 minutes later I was rethinking that analysis. I did witness a young man who payed for a video game system (luckily his only item!) at least partially, with a bag of change. In hard economic times, I understand you’ve gotta spend what you can in any way you can, but good grief, way to slow the line down! To her credit (and that of those in line with him) the cashier did not react negatively, she simply counted out the change as quickly as possible. And really, aside from some grouchy people when aisles were crowded, we didn’t see or hear any angry or violent people the rest of the day.
Other stores I hit up for deals were: Target, Circuit City, K-Mart, Walgreens, Cardboard Heroes and Elder-Beerman. In most cases there were plenty of the sale items available and I was able to successfully check off nearly every item on my Black Friday shopping list.
I was a pretty happy (if not exhausted) shopper by early afternoon. How’d you do?
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