In fact, I hate it so much that I refer to it as the Black Friday Hunger Games. Why? Because it seems to me that corporate executives get off seeing a bunch of desperate people beating the crap out of people in their stores for the supposedly limited quantities on the shelves.
Limited? My ass. Anyone who's smart enough to figure it out knows they've got more of those same items in the back that they'll bring out and then mark up to 'normal' prices after the fact.
Let's add to that the reality that many retail workers face on this corporate farce: Those who work during the Black Friday Hunger Games (Which have been extended to include Thanksgiving) are the same folks who work year round and make barely enough to survive on, even with the public assistance they're forced into because the employers pay them the shittiest wages with the shittiest hours they can get away with. Even with the so-called holiday pay, it's still a fucking joke.
This is also why I despise many big-box retailers. They shit on their employees all year round IN PLAIN SIGHT, and yet the masses still manage to be lulled into buying their shitty products via celebrity-filled PR commercials on TV. The only reason I even shop at Walmart to begin with is because it's the only thing I can get to with my golf cart.
So if you do have to shop this holiday weekend, please show the workers respect. They go through enough without some moronic customer berating them because they couldn't get the latest Call of Duty for their 6 year old kid. And if I do end up going shopping at all this weekend, I'll go during Small Business Saturday. Lord knows those folks need my cash a hell of a lot more than the Big Box Marts ever will.
See you around,
Homer