Sunday 26 May, 2013
THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS INCLUDE, turkey, family, pumpkin pie, sports and most importantly for these people anyway, sales.
For those who didn’t fall into a turkey-induced coma on the couch, they hit the shops instead in search of bargains.
Shops usually open early in the morning on the day after Thanksgiving, however some stores have decided to start banking in by opening on Thanksgiving evening.
Here’s what the shopping frenzy looks like:
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Yes… Some of us do celebrate Thanks Giving with turkey and apple pie. But the traditional sense of Thanksgiving cannot always prevail for every family. With most families scattered around the world, getting everyone together at one table to eat until unconsciousness isn’t always possible.
After arriving from Ireland, I spent a couple days driving around my home town visiting various family and friends, coffee, lunch and dinner was share giving thanks.
Thanks Giving dinner was short and sweet with out the normal hassle of cooking because we dined in a restaurant. The meal was great! The company was even better. Thankful that my parents are alive, their health problems hasn’t stopped them from enjoying and thankful I could financially afford to fly in from Ireland to spend time with them. Very thankful.
However, the treat of all treats was watch my partner’s face light up in surreal wonderment as we headed to Macys at 12 midnight with coupons in hand to purchase gifts for friends and family on both sides of the pond. Many items were were discounted from 15-75% off… If you took the time to clip coupons from the newspaper advertisement, you took could have gotten an additional 10-15% off of the already discounted item. Incredible savings, more money in my pocket, I haven’t over spent and I will not be paying for these gifts well into the new year.
So if getting up at midnight to shop seem strange… But won’t have to worry about 2013 credit card bills. Merry Christmas!
Great to see a mass strike at Walmart on Black Friday, a company that made $16bn profit last year yet the majority of their employees are on food stamps.
Walmart employees earn around $15,000/ year. That’s just under €11,600, which is ~ €220/ wk. There’s a bunch of Waltons in the top 10 of the Forbes rich list (billionaires).
http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#p_1_s_a0_All%20industries_United%20States_All%20states_
Money made on the backs of ordinary workers.
Yeah so basically the taxpayer subsidises Walmart so filthy rich people can get richer. If the company actually paid a living wage and some sort of health insurance then it would be a significant boost to the economy cause these people put everything they earn back into the economy. But we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a world run by the super rich and anyone that says otherwise is seriously deluded.
Ah black Friday, the day after they give thanks for what they have, they go out and buy a lot of stuff they don’t really need.
I beg to differ. I have lived in Ireland 12 years now and have seen people shop massively for Christmas, spend an obscene amount of money on weddings, communions, etc. we may be tight fisted in France but at least we’re not paying for months afterwards.
Well Roy, not really sure what your comment means because Thanksgiving was yesterday here in the States and that holiday was messed up from the start. But yeah I hate this Black Friday crap and the way it makes us look to the world, just like the reality TV and press and such. Not all of us act like that or agree with such behavior.
it may seem a little crazy but then you get pretty good deals on all sorts of stuff. The timing isn’t great but if you had this kind of day in Ireland I’m sure you’d all go and shop your guts out, too!
The worst part of shopping in New York is how slow the cashiers are, they really don’t care how long the queue is. And they take sooooooo loooong to wrap your item and then take another age to give your receipt and god help you If another cashier wants a quick word with them , they have this annoying habit of ignoring you (the customer) and giving all their attention to whatever sh1t to their buddy .
Yeah, and they are so well paid to deal with those hordes of frazzled, short-tempered and rude customers too! And after their benevolent corporate bosses went to such trouble to ensure there were plenty of cashiers available to facilitate customers too. The lazy good-for-nothings, just there for the good times, no thought for others at all.
Not everyone in the US is crazy about Black Friday. The older I get, I really don’t like the frenzy and often rude shoppers. Woe to you if you unintentionally slip into a parking space someone else had their eye on! Seriously, I had a lovely day out to lunch with friends and saw a movie, (Life of Pi) and need neither massage or therapist to relieve stress, since their wasn’t any. As for the sales, the stores always seem to have a good deal or two to sucker everyone in, but most of the items can be had a few days earlier for the same price. It is the media that makes Black Friday, a now Thanksgiving evening such a circus.
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