Thread Of The Day

Early this morning, a Long Island Wal-Mart employee was crushed to death by an overanxious crowd of Black Friday shoppers. Apparently the crowd grew so large, the doors could no longer contain them. When the doors broke off their hinges, the crowd poured in like water through a broken dam. Unfortunately, the worker was standing in the wrong place at the wrong time.

In today’s thread, the members of gottadeal.com discuss this tragic event:

http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=128223

Human stampede deaths are something you expect to hear about in third world countries, not “civilized” countries like ours.

I looked at all the major store ads for Black Friday, including Wal-Mart, and can’t figure out what the big deal is. There were a few decent bargains, but nothing spectacular that I would call a “doorbuster”.

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Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. Major retailers such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target, Circuit City, Toys R Us, Sears, Kmart, Staples, Kohl’s, etc. have great bargains to jump start the Christmas shopping season. Laptop computers and flat panel televisions are popular items on this day.

To get the best deals, you have to be in the stores early. Some people even go to the store on Thursday night after their Thanksgiving meal to wait in line outside of a store. In many parts of the country it can be quite cold.

The members in this forum thread at GottaDeal.com are those people. Here they discuss what they will be wearing.

http://forums.gottadeal.com/showthread.php?t=124543

I plan on wearing my pajamas, sheets, blankets, and pillows, on a queen size bed, surrounded by walls and a roof. I might reconsider if somebody is giving away 65″ tvs to everyone in line.

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