Happy Black Friday.

[comsnark]

Not much of a black friday type, but I like the good electronics sale as much as the next geek. I usually opt for "sleeping in" over getting up at 3am to fight with people over $12 USB drives.

This year was no different. However, when I got to best buy at 3pm, I was surprised to find the store PACKED with merchandise and nearly EMPTY of shoppers. There were still stacks of door buster goodies clogging the aisles. Sure, some items (like $300 obsolete laptops) were gone; but lots of other stuff was still around.

Staples was a bit more stripped at 4pm, but over half of the "6-10am" doorbuster items were still in plentiful supply. And they were honouring the doorbuster price.

Is it this way all over?

 

[mwph]

My daughter left the house @ 2.30 am. Says she stood in lines to get in to places, spent a ton (imagine that) & says that all stores she went into people were buying by the truckload.

The Admiral & I opted for a 10am ride up to the boat.

 

[katricol]

I heard busy here in ct.

 

[fc3]

We went into The City to see a show on Broadway, have dinner and the heck with shopping.

 

[Guest]

So now "black" is synonymous for "spending money"? I think YOUR PRESIDENT would object to this reference.

 

[CSR_Admin]

I went to best buy at about 8am to get an obsolete $300 laptop before I had to open our store at 10AM. It was packed! Absolutely mobbed. The lines were insane. The $300 laptops were gone but they had some $350 laptops. Low and behold, the $350 laptop is faster than my $1200 laptop I got last year :grin:

 

[mistercomputerman]

I bought $400 worth of stuff from BOE online.