28 Replies to “Marketing Campaigns Of The Apocalypse”

  1. That’s just crazy. Maybe I’m just too stuck on myself but the lack of dignity in that kind of stampede is shocking. I just can’t see myself in that kind of line-up for anything.

  2. 50 to 80 % off. Just goes to show how retailers are gouging the stupid.Consumer frenzy is nuts!!!!

  3. It seems to be some sort of symbiotic huckster – moron interdependent relationship plus plenty of free backwoods media coverage. While Black Friday is the extreme end of the spectrum, a much milder version seems to be practiced weekly by certain supermarket chains which specialize in restocking their deeply discounted specials empty shelves perhaps twice a week.

  4. The upcoming worldwide financial depression will finally put a halt to all of the delusional consumer spending which has been going on in the so-called advanced economies for the last several decades.

  6. Should the worth of my existence ever get reduced to standing in line at 4:00 a.m. at the local Target/Winners/ToysRUs/Whatever to get a few extra bucks off something that’s almost just as cheap every other day of the year…….well, just put me out of my misery.
    Sgt, you nail it……it’s a huckster-moron symbiotic relationship. I doubt very much there are any real deals on Black Friday, but I give the retailers credit — they’ve conjured a once-per-year shopping event out of thin air, and a large number of the sheeple buy it.

  8. Confession time. There were two cars in front of me when I went for my free MacDonalds coffee this am. There was no way to jump the queue. I waited.

  10. Don’t get between the poverty stricken and flat screen TV’s, we learned that last year.

  11. Yea, it’s either Katrina or Walmart Bargain Days,
    America needs to be better prepared for these kinds of emotional situations that bring on looting, and gang raping.
    Me I’m locked and loaded. I can take down more zombies in a minute than a Liberal can lick ass on in an hour.
    Yea hate me BTJ, Alex or whatever gay personality manifests itself today. I will rock on you will always be a pathetic submissive loser.

  12. Ok, I still don’t get this whole shopping bug thing.
    I do all my Christmas shopping on Halloween night, the stores are a ghost town. 60 minutes and I am done for another year.

  15. as a handi man I do clean-outs
    basement bargin time all year round, you’d be surprized what people throw out, even “MONEY”:-))))
    I wouldn’t stand in line for anything

  16. Lined up early once, 40% off Seiko watches and a diamond. Held the door open for a little old lady. She whacked me in the shin with her cane. No good deed shall go unpunished.

  17. It seems no matter where you go there are the jerks that push to the front. Most of them, unfortunately, drive. In construction sites they’re the ones who won’t get in line but instead drive right up to the end of the lane and force their way in; i.e. the ones you want to take a baseball bat to.
    On a positive note, I was once in a grocery store on Christmas Eve where the last minute line-ups were quite long. However the cross lane had to be kept open leaving a space between the person at the register and the next person in line. Store employees were quick to move on line jumpers. There was no mamby-pambying if the line jumper was slow or hesitant to move to the back of the line.

  18. Welcome to the United Flakes of Humerika where consumerism is a religion and the cult of the shopper rules!
    Attention all shoppers
    It’s Cancellation Day
    Yes the Big Adios
    Is just a few hours away
    It’s last call
    To do your shopping
    At the Last Mall
    We’ve got a sweetheart Sunset Special
    On all of the standard stuff
    ‘Cause in the morning –that gospel morning
    You’ll have to do for yourself when the going gets tough
    Roll your cart back up the aisle
    Kiss the checkout girls goodbye
    Ride the ramp to the freeway
    Beneath the blood orange sky
    (Steely Dan)

  19. I don’t understand the mentality of a person who would line up for hours or camp out in order to shop….
    I avoid Boxing Day, and hell would freeze over before I would venture south to experience Black Friday…

  20. If they were lining up for the last few items of food I could see it,but they just went for trinkets!
    Bloody sheeple!

  21. “There’s a special adrenaline high being here at midnight,” said shopper Lisa Van Dyke of Neenah.”
    Some people are sorely in need of a life.

  22. “There’s a special adrenaline high being here at midnight”
    No, that’s the adrenaline that gets administered by paramedics after your ass gets trampled

  25. Geez, did any of you read the link? (emphasis mine)
    Ten purple Babies R Us shopping carts were turned upside down in a row to thwart line-jumpers. Staffers reopened the doors and customers were let in 50 at a time without further incident.
    The people who did wait in line were upset that johnny-come-lately’s were crashing the line. Once the police showed up and restored order, everything went swimmingly – no deaths, no injuries, no arrests. This is the proverbial “nothing to see here, folks”.
    And for those who sneer at the bargain hunters – my wife dragged me to one of these about 10 years ago. 32″ plasma TV’s, retailing at the time for over $1,000, were on sale for $200. The catch? Only 12 per store. So 1) being first in line is important if you want to get one, and 2) saving $800 (which is not a “few bucks” to me) vs. spending six hours in line works out to $133/hour – tax free. Seems like a rational enough tradeoff for many.

  26. Fair enough, KevinB, but if you’re number 13 in line, that’s a negative return on your time and you’re left with prices available at pretty much any other time of year and a shitty nights sleep, to boot.
    I’ll take a good night’s sleep and avoidance of crowds any day over what is essentially a lottery to save a few hundred bucks.

  28. Did a Boxing Day lineup once for a piece of Sony Audio gear. In Canada at 30 below or so. Conclusion: lesson learned, never again.
    The only bonus of having sales after Thanksgiving in the US is that you can get good deals of Christmas presents before Christmas. It also allows you to wallow the day after Christmas in a over-turkeyed stupor.

Proudly powered by WordPress & Skyrocket Themes

MENU

Navigation