Wal-Mart's New Black Friday Policies

tyr_13

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Wal-Mart has changed the way Black Friday works at their stores. Some details in the video here.

Some more details are that people will be forced to line up at different pods with the specific deals, and the associates will hand them the product one at a time.

But will it work? I'm guessing that there will still be fights (of course) but also associates being mauled for the product faster. Is this just putting more associates in danger? Is it alright that Wal-Mart is at least trying?

I'm fully expecting the standard, 'Wal-Mart is an evil, greed corporation and nothing it does can be any good' style arguments as well. And of course they are doing this because someone got killed last year. We all already get that and I personally don't find it an important criticism.
 
Odds are there will be some dust ups but IIRC the serious injuries & deaths seem to come from "blitz lines" (When they allow the crowd to assemble in a big gaggle **** and charge when the doors open.) They seem to have taken care to prevent it this year.
 
shandyjan said:
People....shopping.... I just dont get it!
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When I was a kid "The Cabbage Patch Kids" burst on the scene. I would gt up early every day that Christmas season to watch grown men and women fight over the toys and LMAO.
 
Redtail said:
When I was a kid "The Cabbage Patch Kids" burst on the scene. I would gt up early every day that Christmas season to watch grown men and women fight over the toys and LMAO.
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A good sense of fun, that!!:D:D:D:D
 
I have a weird urge to fire hamsters from a cannon through (if aimed correctly) a small hole in a concrete wall. I don't think I came up with it on my own, but it has been haunting me in the last few days for some reason.
 
tyr_13 said:
Wal-Mart has changed the way Black Friday works at their stores. Some details in the video here.

Some more details are that people will be forced to line up at different pods with the specific deals, and the associates will hand them the product one at a time.

But will it work? I'm guessing that there will still be fights (of course) but also associates being mauled for the product faster. Is this just putting more associates in danger? Is it alright that Wal-Mart is at least trying?
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It will be safer that door buster sales. It should be much more orderly on average, and as it wil seem fair to most people there shouldn't be too many problems.

This might well be the safest way possible to do this kind of thing.
 
All these new regs will take the fun out of shopping. I propose they make it more of a challenge, then only the real shoppers would turn up. They could have stuff like razor wire, concentration camp guards shooting on a whim, tunnels under the carparks, electricified fences, doberman pinchers running the death strip between cabbages and vaccuum cleaners. Could be a fun day out for all.
 
Roman emperors used to throw wooden balls into the crowds at the games, and each ball had the name of an item on it and could be redeemed for that item as a gift from the emperor. It could be anything from a jug of wine to a team of gladiators or a country estate, depending on the generosity/madness of the emperor in question.

Naturally there was always a mad scramble for these wooden balls when they were thrown, with casualties (which is one of the reasons these emperors did it, of course).

I just thought that perhaps it could be adapted to the modern era, with Walmart employees on the store's roof, flinging coupons into a huge waiting crowd. Because of seasonal generosity! Holiday cheer! Survival of the fittest!

I'm just all over holiday cheer.
 
My local Target store has already started working on setting up this year’s special crowd control measures in their parking lot.



Actually, if I could get away with it on private property like a Wal Mart parking lot, I’d get a group of friends together, set something like this up, and just hang off it chanting “Two shoppers enter, one shopper leaves!” over and over, drinking the morning away and amusing the hell out of myself (and probably no one else, but who cares?).
 
Anybody who goes shopping at Walmart's or a Major Shopping center on Black Friday has no sympathy for me. Stupidity looses my sympathy very quickly.
 
dudalb said:
Anybody who goes shopping at Walmart's or a Major Shopping center on Black Friday has no sympathy for me. Stupidity looses my sympathy very quickly.
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I always wonder how pathetic their lives must be, to show up at 4:00 am and then trample over others, just to save a few bucks on some toy for their brats back home in the trailer.
 
I don't get black friday, AT ALL..

Why go through all that fuss? why not just wait till sometime next week, or the week after.. or the week after, to do all of your Christmas shopping???
 
Gangularis said:
I don't get black friday, AT ALL..

Why go through all that fuss? why not just wait till sometime next week, or the week after.. or the week after, to do all of your Christmas shopping???
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heck, my wife and I usually have most of all of our shopping done before November starts so we do not have to deal with crowds! :)
 
Madness, it is. Inspired by urban legends of getting a DVD player for $15 or some such, I guess.
I don't get the name "black" friday either. Sure I could look it up, but meh.
 
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I would kill or trappable to death a person for a $15 buck DVD player! For sure!
 
I'm already tired of people coming into the club and asking me all about the 'Friday specials'. They're in the flier. No, they're all in the flier. Read it please. No, I don't have any other ones, they are only the ones in the flier.

Also, what the hell is people's problem with pronouncing the words 'Bose' and 'Vizio'.
 
tyr_13 said:
I'm already tired of people coming into the club and asking me all about the 'Friday specials'. They're in the flier. No, they're all in the flier. Read it please. No, I don't have any other ones, they are only the ones in the flier.

Also, what the hell is people's problem with pronouncing the words 'Bose' and 'Vizio'.
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They are more difficult than the and a (that is, in their speak: "thuh" and "uh"). I suspect there is a problem with the three syllables of Visio (Vih zee oh, Vee zee oh, Vee zih oh) and the two (I know) of Bose (Boh see, Boh say, Baww say, Baww see, and for single syllablers Bohss, Boze, Bawws):D

Note, I would not include newcomers to these companies - I have accidentally mispronounced words that I had no (or bad) guidance on in the past - plus, especially in the matter of current naming of people, many names can only be mispronounced by a first timer since their relation to normal names in any existing language is minimal at best. For kids who get upset at mispronunciation of their names by me, I give them four or five of the legitimate ways to pronounce what is spelled out on their class schedules.
 
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