Black Friday

Black Friday

Having a Blog and having something to write about are two different things, today I though of something. Today I found out why they call it Black Friday, The day after Thanksgiving; The beginning of the Christmas sales. Supposedly the busiest sale day of the year and when all businesses make a profit or back in the black, indicating a profit. (Not the day to go shopping). What a zoo, I don’t know if you attempted to go out today but it was really a mad house. In Wal Mart, for example as we went about 7:30 and found that a lot of the stuff advertized was gone already. Too bad I wasn’t in the market for the 50 inch Plasma; they still had 4 of those puppies left. Go figure, but that’s probably to be expected. Wouldn’t it make more sense for the stores to have plenty of all the items advertized available to all, not just the ones that freeze their butts off all night? To go with that there was the typical Christmas rush of shoppers. We had then sleeping outside the stores as I see was the case all over. Of course here they were in Ice fishing shelters, typical Minnesotans. What got me was the way the people were behaving inside of the stores. You couldn’t’ walk down hardly any aisles. People would just stop in the middle of the aisle and be talking to on another blocking the whole aisle. They then get out their cell phones and then cant’ walk and talk at the same time. Wonder what would happen of they tried to chew gum too? Also we did see full carts left in isles with no one around. Guess they were collecting the stuff for Santa and leaving it there for him to pick up later? Went to a store in the mall and you know the type, a small store, popular gift items, and where is the check out? All the way in the back of the store. Guess where the line was? Yep all the way out of the front of the store. Can’t see where the economy is hurting up here? But then again looking out their store and down the mall there is a closed Steve and Berry’s store with all the shelves empty and all they were selling were the furnishings.