Anyone else prepared for "Blitz Day"

Well, it's called that here at least (yes, I've read the Wal-Mart thread, and I agree with everything said in it) Anyway, for those not in the know, it's the day after Thanksgiving and is the most important shopping day of the year for most retailers. Before I left today, they were allready beginning to set up the displays and merchandise for Friday (Thanksgiving is one of only 2 days that evil incarnate is closed) My department was putting out what I call the 'ghetto" electronics, like the $27 Symphonic DVD players, and $60 Symphonic 25in TV's, and of course, those fly out the store. Fortunately, I pulled the evening shift for Friday, so I'll miss most of the morning madness (and probable fist fight or two). Any other retail workers dreading/looking forward to that day?

I'm just going to EB to get 10 dollar Call of Duty and 10 dollar Chronicles of Riddick.

They'll be about 5 people in the store most likely.

And it's actually called Black Friday, but lately retailers are so paranoid of someone screaming racism or some shit they try and change the name.

This is the first time in years I don't have a retail job I'll have to go to and deal with this mess all day, not to mention the rest of the holiday season. The enormity of the awesomeness of that just dawned upon me.

I'll get up early and hit up Circuit City and EB for the Pearl White SP w/ Metroid Zero Mission and Riddick, respectively, then do fuck-all all day.

edit: just saw the Target deals, I'll definitely get Family Guy season 2 and Simpsons season 4 for for $17.99 each there. Sweet.

Here's the Black Friday Ads for the curious.

Yea I think I might hit up Circuit City early for that 11.99 Aladdin DVD, only because I have a 10 dollar gift card there =/

black friday.... good luck

I work in manafacturing, our workload went up due to the Holiday season but I don't have to deal with Black Friday, hell I don't even have to work, I just have to deal with the traffic that's bad enough as is around here.

I work in a grocery store, so our "Black Friday" is the week leading up to Thanksgiving.

I'm working. I'm kinda "meh" about it.

Ill be working that day too but not in retail.......
I always used to go to stores just to see how crazy everyone be.

I think maybe ill go down to the mall and clothesline an old lady for a DS.

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Originally Posted by Roufuss

Yea I think I might hit up Circuit City early for that 11.99 Aladdin DVD, only because I have a 10 dollar gift card there =/

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Aladdin will be $9.87 at Wal-Mart. However, Circuit City will probably be less busy and therefore worth spending the extra $2 or whatever.

"Black Friday". Bleh, just hearing that phrase makes me cringe. Gotta be at work at 5:30 AM.

Um yes... I'm somewhat ready - on Black Friday I'll be working 4 to 11 (4 to close basically) so I won't have it too bad, plus Borders doesn't do major sales that day anyway so I'm sort of in the clear, the main problem comes on fucking saturday when everyone trickles over to our store - I work that day from 10-6 so I'll have to deal with the pigmented assholes then... I'm mentally prepared, my plan is to ignore as many people as possible.

I went to Comp Usa today to buy printer ink cartridges, got in and out of there fast, and walked next door to Circuit City to check it out and holy fuck , a line from the registers wrapping all the way around the store... its not even black friday yet. And I was stuck in traffic for 20 minutes just to go 200 ft to the stop light! Annoying.... unless you have a death wish or HAVE to work, don't go out on Friday.

Did I mention I hate Thanksgiving...? Fuck this holiday.

I work that morning... in a mall, no less.

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just try to avoid getting stressed out and take as many breaks as you can - thats my advice after oh... 4 black fridays in a row now, often times i'll just go in the back stockroom just to take a people break for a minute - sometimes theres only so much social interaction you can handle in rapid succession.

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Originally Posted by station82o

Um yes... I'm somewhat ready - on Black Friday I'll be working 4 to 11 (4 to close basically) so I won't have it too bad, plus Borders doesn't do major sales that day anyway so I'm sort of in the clear, the main problem comes on fucking saturday when everyone trickles over to our store - I work that day from 10-6 so I'll have to deal with the pigmented assholes then... I'm mentally prepared, my plan is to ignore as many people as possible.

I went to Comp Usa today to buy printer ink cartridges, got in and out of there fast, and walked next door to Circuit City to check it out and holy fuck , a line from the registers wrapping all the way around the store... its not even black friday yet. And I was stuck in traffic for 20 minutes just to go 200 ft to the stop light! Annoying.... unless you have a death wish or HAVE to work, don't go out on Friday.

Did I mention I hate Thanksgiving...? Fuck this holiday.

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After work today, about 5-10 miles worth of driving (cash my paycheck, roomate goes to mall to cash his, buy a few games, basically standard Friday stuff but early paychecks this week makes Friday on Wenseday) took around 1 1/2 hours, one stoplight (like you mentioned) took about 20 minutes, it was utterly ridiculous, I'm trying to stay off the roads on Friday because it'll probably be worse.

This will be my fifth black friday...too be honest I'm not really worried about it anymore.

Of course, the fact that I don't go in until 1 oclock doesn't hurt things either.

I hated working retail sales during that upcoming day. I always got in trouble because I couldn't talk the people (the absolute cheapest fucking people in America, mind you) into spending any extra money on a service plan for their new shitty-ass $100 computer.

At least The Bux isn't participating in the madness, though I'm off that day anyway.

I work at Best Buy, but I close and will miss the enite 6 Hour Door Buster special, it will be super busy still when I am there but not the Blitz of opening.

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Originally Posted by ruhztee

I work that morning... in a mall, no less.

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May the force be with you.

"Buncha slack-jawed faggots 'round here..."

Seriously.

I've got to work at the GStop at 7:30 in a mall. Big deal. You treat ppl cool, everything's fine. Plus, working videogame retail really isn't that bad...as long as your coworkers are cool.

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Originally Posted by The_Meach

I've got to work at the GStop at 7:30 in a mall. Big deal. You treat ppl cool, everything's fine.

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If only it worked out that way.

I'm working food service so tomorrow for me will be hell until 3pm, at which point I get off the floor and recieve my wad of tips and then my day will be great. I'm so glad I'm not working retail like Walmart, I was talking with an older woman last night who managed to wriggle her way out of working Black Friday and just do clean up afterwards. Good deal, as far as I'm concerned.

I work and do clean up afterwards... :(

*is so glad he doesn't work in retail anymore*

I don't work, but I'll be braving the early hours to try and buy a DS for the drive to my grandmother's tomorrow. Wal-mart sucks on Black Friday, especially at 8 am.

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Originally Posted by Tones

I work in a grocery store, so our "Black Friday" is the week leading up to Thanksgiving.

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amen, this week was a beatdown, but its kind fo over, bf is an easy day in grocery,the only danger is since they worked all the good part timers for all their hours up till wednsday, you have to deal with the bad ones now when they feel the risk of working them is not great.

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Originally Posted by Clash_Master

I work at Best Buy, but I close and will miss the enite 6 Hour Door Buster special, it will be super busy still when I am there but not the Blitz of opening.

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Lucky bastard.
I go in to my Best Buy at 5:30 am and don't emerge 'til 6 pm. I already did my shopping ($10 Metal Arms. Woo-hoo!), though.
From working the last one at Radio Shack, I'm still amazed that people will wait outside for hours in the cold for this shit.

I'm working 10pm-6am and even though the store is closed those hours, I will still be busy as hell >_<

I work at Best Buy and I have work from 2 PM until 1 AM. I just can't fucking wait.

My place is open, but I don't work in sales, so... free sailing for me!!!

I'm prepared for Black Friday. I'll be sleeping in, and seeing what's left of Target's sale on Saturday. I'll be happy with either the Family Guy set or Tales of Symphonia.

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Originally Posted by Jeremy

I'm prepared for Black Friday. I'll be sleeping in, and seeing what's left of Target's sale on Saturday. I'll be happy with either the Family Guy set or Tales of Symphonia.

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You really expect the Family Guy set to still be there? That'll probably be one of the first things to go in the movie section, although you might have a chance with ToS.

The Friday after Thanksgiving is only like the 7th or 8th busiest shopping day of the year. The week leading up to Christmas is far busier. And, by that time, people are already sick of Christmas and far ruder than they are on black friday.

My weekend:

Buy shitty comp at Best Buy at 6AM.
Get home and go to sleep.
Wake up and go to work.
Come home and go to sleep.
Wake up, hit up best buy again, this time for a 160GB HDD, 9600XT and All-in-one printer.
Go to work.
Come home and go to sleep.

Yeah--shitty weekend.

The hour+ drive to and from work doesn't help any. The massive pay helps, though. :)

Interpol, I don't expect it to be there on Saturday, which is why I put the "or" in there. ToS I have a chance with, and Metroid being $13. Family Guy wouldn't be considered for a purchase now without that price, while the other things I mentioned are.

Ha!

I got to Best Buy---drove without heat in my car b/c the engine wouldn't even get hot it was so fucking cold.

Saw the huge fucking line. (easily over 300)
Got out of my car and felt how cold it was and how I would have to stand in it for 40 minutes.
Got back in my car.
I'm going to bed now.

Nothing is worth standing in line in that cold for an hour to not even be guaranteed anything AND have to deal with those assholes.

Got to EB this morning at 7 am.

There was only ONE worker there, who had no clue what the fuck she was doing. Waited in line for ten minutes while she rang up one customer, until the other guy finally showed up.

Line stopped for another 20 minutes when two mom's were at both register, seemingly making their lists and doing the shopping from the register.

"No, I think I want this. No wait, nevermind. How is this? Maybe I'll take that, I'm not sure, let's ring it up first. Let's ring it up again!"

In the meantime, there were these 4 dorks behind me, arguing very loudly over the new slim ps2. They also argued about the size of the Xbox, and about Halo 2 vs Call of Duty, I think (yea, weird shit). It sounded like 12 year olds fighting, but when I turned around, these guys had to be in their twenties, and they smelled like total crap.

In the meantime, the female employee didn't know the retail price of Sims 2, didn't even know Chronicles for Riddick for Xbox was released, and was generally stupid.

But it was worth it for Call of Duty and CoR.

My experience was just fine.

Got to CC around 5:58, grabbed a complimentary donut, doors opened, went looking for pearl white GBA SP. I was informed I'd have to go to the cashier, did so (there was no one there yet, LOL @ browsing), got it, bam, next store.

Traveled to Target, walked in around 6:30, picked up Simpsons season 4 and Tales of Symphonia. It was pretty dead in there, the mad rush of 'ZOMG GOTTA BE THERE AS SOON AS THEY OPEN' shoppers had already come and gone and anyone who wasn't one of those people wasn't up yet. Checked out at the electronics counter (also no one waiting), done.

Went to EB down the street, they didn't open 'til 7, so I waited in the car and played Metroid Zero Mission on my new SP. Went in and got the last copy of Riddick, which was a gut :cry:... Not that I care too much about guts, but you would think they'd get a couple of copies of a game they feature in the motherfucking day after thanksgiving sale ad. I'd be pissed if I was the person coming in at 7:05 for it. But I got it, so whatever, fuck 'em.

So, 3 stores (2 big stores), all pretty far apart from each other, in about an hour, closer to 45 minutes if EB had been open when I first got there. On the day after Thanksgiving. Not too shabby.

Moral of the story; go early, know exactly what you want, get it, and get the fuck out. Repeat until shortly after daybreak at latest, then stay the fuck off the roads for the rest of the day.

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Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

Not that I care too much about guts, but you would think they'd get a couple of copies of a game they feature in the motherfucking day after thanksgiving sale ad.
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Hey, lucky for you, I just realized my copy was fucking used, you can see where the used stickers on the case used to be and how they tried to scratch them off but it left residue.

It's espically funny after the worker said "we just got alot of these in for the sale", and it came right out of the back case :lol:

But I don't give a shit, the game looks fine and used copies go for 25 anyways, so I still win.

i slept in this morning, drank way too much last night for any shopping business - not that i'd have shopped otherwise. Anyway, i saw the lines on the news - madness people... madness.

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Originally Posted by Bacon McShig

Moral of the story; go early, know exactly what you want, get it, and get the fuck out. Repeat until shortly after daybreak at latest, then stay the fuck off the roads for the rest of the day.

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This is wise advice. :chunobi:

Here's my experience thus far: The early shopper crowd at Best Buy was absolutely insane. I had to park across the street in the Old Navy parking lot because the BB lot was already packed at 6:15 AM. I also waited in line for a good 45-60 minutes (I lost track of the time) just so I could purchase a $10 copy of Metal Arms for myself and a few CDs for family members.

EB Games was much better. I arrived 10-15 minutes after they opened and there was a steady flow of people coming in and out, but vehicular traffic was nonexistent since the stores surrounding it (Borders and TJ Max) were still closed. Without any line-waiting hassle, I picked up the following games for a total of $23:

Tetris Attack, The Legend of Mystical Ninja, Captain America and the Avengers (Genesis), Icewind Dale II, Diablo II, and Morrowind.

I may head out to another EB Games after all the early bird sales end and the traffic dies down a bit.

All in all, this is definitely the best Black Friday deal I've gotten since Best Buy's storewide $9.99 CD sale a few years ago.:tu:

I think those early-morning sales are a great place to start killing people. Not like you'd be robbing the world of anyone valuable in any way. Fuckers.

Man, I hate major holidays. I'm so glad that I don't work in retail. I give you guys props for dealing with all the idiots.

going into work in one hour, wish me teh luck, i'm going to just stay as lazy as possible up there, not worth wasting my energy on something i've done many times before. On the plus side of today, i've written half my paper today alone, the other half i can get done tonight after work - go me.

I got to BB at 5:30 and the line was almost at the back of the building already. I had some dude standing by me cracking jokes the whole time so that was cool. Got inside and it was a mad house, I didnt have a cart and I still had a very hard time manuvering around. Got two $17 dvd players, the Polariod portable dvd player (which according to a budy of mine is region free and will play PAL dvds), 5 dvds for $25, and some other xmas gifts.

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Originally Posted by Hot Like Wasabi

I got to BB at 5:30 ... Got two $17 dvd players, the Polariod portable dvd player (which according to a budy of mine is region free and will play PAL dvds), 5 dvds for $25, and some other xmas gifts.

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No offense, sir, but I hope you die.

I just got home from work.
Note: Working 12 hours with an injured back is NOT good.
Also, watching a game of "Who can obtain the largest amount of phone numbers from females" on such a busy day is very entertaining.

Today was total cake. I'd much rather the store was busy and I had tons of ppl to ring than nothing to do but b/s.

Now I'm in the process of moving.

Just got home from work and it wasn't bad at all. That was kind of a letdown. I was expecting exploding customers and stuff =(

Just got home about an hour ago. Work wasn't too bad at all, surprisingly. It was just like any other busy weekend.

Well I just got home from work and it was fucking dead.

Not working retail is awesome.

I'm going to bed.

I stayed with my mom all day and did absolutely nothing. We went down to the bar a little earlier and the place was sort of crowded but otherwise my day was a boring and uneventful one.

I got, all for $9.99 each:

Chappelle Show Season 1 and Aladdin (Best Buy)
Pokemon Channel and Chronicles of Riddick (EB)

It was a BIG SUCCESS!

Just got home about an hour ago.

I am fucking exhausted. There was line wrapped AROUND THE DAMN STORE at 5:30 AM!

The morning rush lasted lasted until about 4 PM and was absofuckinglutely manic. It was like someone pumped liquid crack into the drinking water the night before and turned them all loose.

Screaming children, screaming adults, several near-fisticuffs encounters, one-hour waiting time for the check-out line, and just all around psychomania for 10 DAMN HOURS!

I been doing this for six years now and I have NEVER seen it like this. I'm just glad it's over. :sweat:

just got back home from work - man... our store was damn dead... when i came in at 4pm ok there were a good bit of people there, but right at 5pm everyone emptied out and we were like stillborn the rest of the day. Granted we didn't have any specials going like blitz sales and whatnot but I guess on the whole bookstores aren't getting that black friday attention anymore - oh well, it was nice for me. Quite a underwhelming feeling actually ....

I spent blitz day sleeping late, eating leftovers and finally getting to my 3 papers which are due on tuesday. The only shopping i did was buying a venti espresso from starbucks so i could stay up to do these stupid papers, the line was insanely long though.

I went out yesterday morning to buy my DS, and my dad had to run to a few places. Wasn't THAT bad, and we have a pretty busy area. Wal-mart had a long wait, but nothing extraordinary. Got a 27 flat-tube TV for under a hundred bucks somewhere, and the guy at EB sold me somebody's DS preorder because the person never came to pick it up. We also got so much pop I don't think we'll ever be able to consume it before next year. A very productive morning.

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Originally Posted by Interpol

You really expect the Family Guy set to still be there? That'll probably be one of the first things to go in the movie section, although you might have a chance with ToS.

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I work at target...the only things for the $18 DVD's that sold out at my store was Simpsons Season 4.

There were tens of copies of Family Guy left by closing time. Volume 1 was the only one on sale in regards to family guy.
I picked up one of the last Simpsons, as well as Southpark season 1 and season 2 for a total of $51.xx.

I went to EB at 7:06 and got the one and only new copy of CoR for 9.99

I also got gungrave new, and Gundam: Federation vrs Zeon used, R Types Final used, and Skys Of Arcadia Legends used.

=/ I don't know how happy I am about my purchase. For starters they didn't let me look at the disk because of the rush. I think people ate off of Rtypes and G: FvrsZ, plus Rtypes has no manual. The best part is they somehow forgot to put the disk in Sky's of Arcadia Legends.

After I go back to get the game I already paid for, and getting scratched disks, and no manual for one, I didn't get as good of a deal as I thought. More like an OK deal, and not the super awesome one I'd hoped for.

And before someone chimes in with "OMG U DUM BASS, U should HAVE asked TO SEE THE DISK @_@"

1. They were in sale sale sale mode, and had the three guys working in a line to get used games, found, cased, and stuck with those stupid stickers.
2. There was 5 mothers with lots of games, and crap behind me. One of them being a BIG black mother. I did NOT want to make those people wait on my frivolous (at least to them) game inspection. The last thing I needed was getting laid out by a BBM piledriver.

But I did get to see the Incredibles for 4 bucks. =D go me.

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Originally Posted by Criticom

I work at target...

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Did you ring out any of those anal massagers?