Walmart is Starting Black Friday On Thanksgiving

[JMcEntegart]

Thursday is the new Friday.

Walmart is Starting Black Friday On Thanksgiving : Read more

 

[eiskrystal]

Are these deals worth wrapping up your Thanksgiving Deals early?

No.

 

[Guest]

Americans have their priorities all screwed up. Thanksgiving and Christmas aren't supposed to be about "stuff".

 

[Northwestern]

[citation][nom]mgilbert[/nom]Americans have their priorities all screwed up. Thanksgiving and Christmas aren't supposed to be about "stuff".[/citation]
In this country people care more about what they receive on Christmas rather than celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.

 

[bigdragon]

Walmart is too late. I remember seeing Kmart ads advertising Black Friday in July. I think we should just rename Black Friday to National Save The Economy Day. This might be the first year I actually don't buy anything at all. I think paying those inflated gas prices to visit various family members is enough money spent this year.

 

[mightymaxio]

I did black friday one year with a friend and let me tell you the feeling of getting only 1 of the 20 tvs they had was pretty epic as you walked out of the store and a 1000 people are staring at you. Will I do it again heck no but it was fun with my friend although it snowed during the night waiting for the store to open which kind of sucked.

 

[jacobdrj]

[citation][nom]northwestern[/nom]In this country people care more about what they receive on Christmas rather than celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.[/citation]
Not everyone in this country is of a faith that recognizes Christmas. But they enjoy the feelings of good will regardless, and since they have nothing better to do on the 25th, use the time that they get off work to shop, when possible...

 

[restatement3dofted]

[citation][nom]northwestern[/nom]In this country people care more about what they receive on Christmas rather than celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.[/citation]

Of course we do - fairy tales are for kids.

 

[ikefu]

I hate this. Black Friday use to be fun. Spend Thanksgiving with family and then a few of us cousins would take off after everything was winding down to go line up at the store we picked. It was a blast camping out as much as it was to shop.

Now we'd have to miss a good chunk of our Thanksgiving to be able to do that. Screw you Walmart. Screw you for making your employees come in on Thanksgiving and for ruining our annual Black FRIDAY hangout.

 

[velosteraptor]

This is a good idea, maybe it will cut down on the horror stories we see every year around shopping season.

 

[thecolorblue]

[citation][nom]northwestern[/nom]In this country people care more about what they receive on Christmas rather than celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.[/citation]
yawn

 

[TunaSoda]

This is a very good business plan actually, not only will most people have a buzz-on while shopping then, but they won't have as much money left over the next day for using at their competitors...

 

[twinshadow]

Wel-mart always thinking about family 1st

 

[Guest]

Lets all line up at 5pm on THANKSGIVING (instead of eating yourself silly) to get the 2 year old iPad 2, at the same price that it is everywhere else!!! Who's with me?

 

[Prey]

[citation][nom]yarmock[/nom]Lets all line up at 5pm on THANKSGIVING (instead of eating yourself silly) to get the 2 year old iPad 2, at the same price that it is everywhere else!!! Who's with me?[/citation]
And the Emerson 32-inch LCD TV!! (this has got to be < $100)

 

[scottiemedic]

Come on!! Really??? The same crap they will have on Thanksgiving will be at 4 other places on Friday! If you duck out on family to save $40, your family values are all sorts of screwed up!!

 

[whiteodian]

I'm with the group that thinks they shouldn't be pushing Black Friday deals earlier and earlier. It is called Black FRIDAY after all. I think I'll just do all my shopping online. Holidays have just become too commercialized. I can't wait for January. Less traffic everywhere.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

[citation][nom]mgilbert[/nom]Americans have their priorities all screwed up. Thanksgiving and Christmas aren't supposed to be about "stuff".[/citation]
You can thank the Bush Administration.

 

[Guest]

Holidays are way too commercialized. Shit happens though. Target is doing this too.

 

[Guest]

They're doing this to reduce the "crush" (quite literally) of people at any one time attempting to shop. The hardcore will come in on Thanksgiving, everyone else on Friday.

I really don't see why anyone is complaining . . . just don't shop there on Thursday . . . or any other day, for that matter. It's an option, and it would seem to be, err, healthier, for the customers.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]northwestern[/nom]In this country people care more about what they receive on Christmas rather than celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.[/citation]
You know if you want to celebrate his birth then doing it a little closer to his "actual" birth day would help. Taking over other people religious day and calling it the day your religions savior was born is a rather messed up thing to do and to celebrate it as a great day is even worse.

 

[Guest]

Walmart are a-holes for doing this & anyone who shops there on Thankgiving is an a-hole by association. Disgraceful!

 

[noblerabbit]

My idea to go to a Black Friday at a Walmart, would be to set up a great big table blocking the entrance to an extent, line it will all great home cooked meals, nicely decorated, wine, music, no cell phones, just family and some invited friends, baked goods, the works, some little gifts maybe, and really LACE into every person that walks into that Walmart, just randomly beat the living bejeezus out of them, and then sit back down and resume dinner.

 

[danwat1234]

Well this should be fun. More opportunity for me to use my train horn on black friday lines!

 

[Guest]

Yes get out and get the last of the windows 7 computers before the Iron curtain of windoze 8 closes off the last avenue of escape, and chairman Ballmer blots out the sun! They're stringing up the concertina wire as I post!