Black Friday 2011- Page 2

[zepka102]

Posted: 11/26/11 at 6:06pm

I participated for the first time ever, waiting outside Macy's at midnight for 5 minutes. Easy easy easy night, and bought a $196 jacket for $63. I'm not complaining about that!

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 8:16am

My store was INCREDIBLY quiet, we died around 2am.

That having been said, you may like the sales Jordan, but it sucks for those of us who have to work it, and sacrifice our holiday so that you can get a stupid TV for $150 off (and there's usually better deals after Black Friday if you just look around).

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 3:16pm

Well I used to work in a store also. For 9 years in the same place and I worked on thanksgiving, Christmas etc. It's what you do when you have a retail job and there's no real point bitching about it. Wither you work those days or you look for another job.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 3:43pm

I'm with Jordan. I worked at Blockbuster for 8 years and I worked every Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Eve (many of those until midnight before BBV began closing at 10pm). I always managed to be light hearted and have fun with my clerks. We made our own party and had fun with the customers even though we were swamped.(This was before netflix and we were the only game in town for movies and games)

I also did holiday temp work at Pottery Barn and I worked all the holidays. I embraced the energy of the shoppers and the majority were nice. The ones who weren't I shined on. Not worth letting them get me down.

If you are going to piss and moan about working retail during the holidays, then go work at a bank. There's nothing worse than a pissy clerk in a store. If you don't like it-then quit. It's a free country. My shifts flew by because I had fun with people even when I was stressed.

[romantico]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 5:17pm

To be fair, There was an incident at a Target.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAqEpag1xhc

[TheLadyoftheWood]

Posted: 11/27/11 at 11:27pm

I decided to celebrate this holiday tradition after not playing along for about two years. Never doing that again! I sat outside of Shoe Carnival for two and half hours in the freezing cold, hoping to get a 100 dollar gift card since I was the first friggin person in line. But no the prune-faced cow decided I didn't deserve the gift card and gave it to some old lady who didn't even buy anything. Never ever again! Well maybe if they have a better sale on clothing at Nordstrom's?

[Eris0303]

Posted: 11/28/11 at 1:33am

I don't currently work in retail but I did for many years and have seen Christmas at a few different stores. I never worked at a store like Walmart or Best Buy but I can say that Black Friday was always fun. I have worked "Black Weekend", Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Easter Vigil, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Forth of July, etc. That was the job I signed up for and I did it without complaint. And no - most stores don't have time-and-a-half for holidays.

Christmas Eve was always worse than Black Friday. The Black Friday shoppers are the ones who are excited to be out. The Christmas Eve shoppers are the ones who put it off until the last minute and are grumpy about the lack of time (stores closed early on Christmas Eve).

Black Friday was fun and exciting. The shifts went quickly because of the lack of downtime. I remember my first Black Friday. I worked at Warner Brother's Studio Store and we were offering teddy bears for $0.01 if you spent a certain amount of money. We were playing catch with the bears in the front of the store to try and entice customers into our "fun store".

I have spent Black Friday at Warner Brothers, Gymoboree, Borders Express, and Disney Store and I don't have one negative Black Friday story.

Updated On: 11/28/11 at 01:33 AM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/28/11 at 12:28pm

I got a couple of Blu-Rays on sale, the real prize being the restored blow-out collectors edition of BEN-HUR on sale at Best Buy for a mere $10.00.