I’m still keeping my Thanksgiving cover photo up on Facebook for the weekend. I absolutely refuse to bend to the “Black Friday” ways…!
Nevertheless, it’s always worth watching and pondering the motives of some in this crowd. I do believe there are truly bargain hunters mixed in there, who seek the best deals as they prepare to give presents this Christmas. With that said, I counted no less than thirty flat screen televisions sticking precariously out of shopping carts, and within a period of about ten minutes while scanning my news stations this morning. Every time I flipped the channel, there were 32, 40, 50 and even 60 inch behemoths as far as Rudolph’s eye could see. Looking at those endless lines and reconciling them against the coverage, whereby I heard not a single interviewee comment on that wonderful “Tablet” they snagged for Junior or Sally, I would have to say that “Black Friday does foster a certain greed factor. I also suspect there were probably a few “less than employed” folks in line at 0300, who had they put as much effort into finding a job, really wouldn’t need to wrestle a grotesquely overweight stranger for the last “PlayStation”. Just sayin’…
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