Black Friday Madness 2020

[Just Jack]

My usual Black Friday thread, what tales or videos of the madness have you seen?

 

My local news reported on a fight outside Game Stop, but no video of it.  

[LeGOATski]

If the pandemic ended Black Friday shopping, we could consider that a small win...

[Just Jack]

1 hour ago, LeGOATski said:

If the pandemic ended Black Friday shopping, we could consider that a small win...

 

I usually title my thread "Black Friday Death Count", but, you know, this year....

[Steptide]

My wife works in retail and said it wasnt that busy today 

[Gugny]

It does NOT feel like it's been a year since the last one of these threads.  Time flies.

[Augie]

35 minutes ago, Steptide said:

My wife works in retail and said it wasnt that busy today 

 

My wife went out and said it just felt like a “normal non-pandemic day” at the mall. Not dead, but not crazy by any means. Of course, half of what she bought today was on-line and will just arrive at our door. That’s our “old normal”. 

 

We have given up on trying to shop for each other. I’m not getting her something she doesn’t want or need just to have stuff under the tree. I’ll get myself a few little things, she will do the same. Doing it mostly together will be the fun of it.  I want a Bills flag for the front of the house, but I want to pick it out. She’s gotten me a lot of Bills stuff over the years, but rarely is it what I would have chosen.   

[Just Jack]

3 minutes ago, Augie said:

We have given up on trying to shop for each other. I’m not getting her something she doesn’t want or need just to have stuff under the tree. I’ll get myself a few little things, she will do the same. Doing it mostly together will be the fun of it.  I want a Bills flag for the front of the house, but I want to pick it out. She’s gotten me a lot of Bills stuff over the years, but rarely is it what I would have chosen.   

 

My wife and I will pretty much tell each other what we want. And for our stockings, we'll go to Target, each of us grabs a basket, we pick out what we'd like. Then at the register we exchange baskets and pay for what each other picked out. We can always add stuff if we see something, but not much. 

[TBBills]

I don't think people have enough money to go crazy this year.

[Augie]

23 minutes ago, Just Jack said:

 

My wife and I will pretty much tell each other what we want. And for our stockings, we'll go to Target, each of us grabs a basket, we pick out what we'd like. Then at the register we exchange baskets and pay for what each other picked out. We can always add stuff if we see something, but not much. 

 

My wife wanted leggings today. Had I gone to the store instead of her, I could have gotten leggings, but would they be the right size? Maybe. Would they have been the one’s she ultimately selected? Almost certainly not. 

 

I want my Bills flag, and I’ve picked out my favorite retro flag. I’ll point to it and say “click here, and don’t forget the pole, sold separately”. There’s no right or wrong, it’s just where we are in our lives. For the kids and my mom we will surprise them. Even then, my son would rather pick out his own Bills gear. I know that for a fact, but he’s a good son and plays along nicely.

 

The trip to Target is a pretty good idea. I’ve never been part of the stocking selections. Sitting here, I have no idea where I’d even start! If my wife wants something (anything!), she makes it happen. We are both used to that. Makes my life easier, but if I surprise her......it’s with something she probably doesn’t want. 

[Mike in Horseheads]

38 minutes ago, TBBills said:

I don't think people have enough money to go crazy this year.

Never stopped them before.

[Doc]

1 hour ago, Augie said:

My wife went out and said it just felt like a “normal non-pandemic day” at the mall. Not dead, but not crazy by any means. Of course, half of what she bought today was on-line and will just arrive at our door. That’s our “old normal”. 

 

We have given up on trying to shop for each other. I’m not getting her something she doesn’t want or need just to have stuff under the tree. I’ll get myself a few little things, she will do the same. Doing it mostly together will be the fun of it.  I want a Bills flag for the front of the house, but I want to pick it out. She’s gotten me a lot of Bills stuff over the years, but rarely is it what I would have chosen.   

 

Good because every Christmas season I like to hit the local mall to see the festivities.  Bad because those retailers won't do well.

[Just Jack]

Here's one guys video from Flagstaff...

 

BLACK FRIDAY 2020 - YouTube

 

[Saxum]

I bought bulk bird food from CountryMax  and more bird food from Walmart + a TV/DVD combo for computer room.

 

Eliminates the crowds.  My wife usually wants to go out to Black Friday sale and had no interest this year at all.

[Just Jack]

Drove by the local mall today, the place is dead. Normally on a weekend it would be busy, this was even less than that. You could easily find a parking spot near a door with a short walk. But the strip mall near our house was busy as normal.