Even though the stores were promoting online sales big time. Many will still turned out for the store shopping on Black Friday and it usually isn't exactly the smoothest sailing. There can be pushing and shoving and lots of waiting in line. There's the bummer of finding out an item you really wanted is sold out. But nothing compares to Black Friday from the retail worker's perspective. These are a few past reported stories... 1. Someone was caught stealing a Bluetooth speaker from a Best Buy.
The cops ended up finding, along with the stolen product, a loaded gun and a bag of black tar heroin! 2. A confused customer started a line for a cash register that was actually just a computer. It took 15 minutes for the line to "snake all around the department." Naturally, pandemonium ensued when the waiting customers learned the truth about the 'line.' When the doofus who started this whole fiasco went to find the right line he found the end of the line he had started.
Then the guy behind him heard that there wasn't a register so he followed the first guy.
Then the next customer followed the 2nd and so on. They walked around in a circle for an hour before somebody noticed them. They almost had a riot when a manager had to tell 100 people that they weren't in line and had just waited an hour for nothing. 3. Once a Victoria's Secret customer pulled a gun on the security guard.
Yup, it's exactly what it sounds like:
A worker at the largest lingerie retailer in the country reported they had a security guard for the beginning of black Friday.
A southern belle mother decided she didn't want to wait in a 50-person deep line and she would cut. The security guard asked her multiple times to step to the back of the line or leave. She proceeded to ream him with every curse word in the book, and ended by threatening him with a gun she had in her bag. That would be my last holiday in retail if that were me. 4. Then there was an incident where the police were called to break up a fight in either Walmart or Target Corp.
The officer was bitten by one of the fighting customers, and it was not pretty: Also remembering back to a story when a police officer during the crazy toy of the year was the Tickle-Me-Elmo. The officer responded to a call ... of two women beating each other up over one toy. When he went to break up the fight, one of the women bit his arm. She bit him so hard that she actually spit some of his skin and blood out onto the floor. He had to get his blood tested every six months for two years after the incident to make sure he didn't get any diseases from her... 5. At a restaurant outside a mall, two men started a fight over Best Buy vouchers for a TV.
One of the men took off his pants to fight, and at one point, someone in the crowd grabbed a fire extinguisher and sprayed it in the room in an attempt to break up the fight.
The story was as an employee was BS-ing with one of the managers when they heard a hostess scream through the walkie, 'HELP HELP!' So they immediately rush to the entrance to see two grown men on the ground fighting, one in nothing but his underwear... This is where must have gotten weird. Everyone is gathered around this small area watching or trying to help when someone grabbed a fire extinguisher and started spraying everyone with it. So there was a bunch of people trying to break up a fight between a man in his underwear and some other dude and someone spraying everyone with a fire extinguisher while there was Christmas carols playing in the background.
Turns out... Guy 1 got the last [TV voucher] from Best Buy and Guy 2 was very angry about that. So he followed him over to the restaurant to try and buy the TV from him. Guy 1 told Guy 2 to F off so Guy 2 took off his pants and started to fight Guy 1.
My thoughts are I will just stay out of the Mayhem this weekend and sip on my favorite beverage while watching a entertaining movie and praying my Amazon shopping will arrive on time.
Be careful out there...
Nana
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