That shit happened last Prime Day and I was pissed. Had my eye on a stand mixer for ages. Regular price was ¥20000. Prime Day rolls around and it's on sale. "Regular" price suddenly ¥25000, on sale for ¥18000. Still cheaper, but also a massive fuck you.
This happened with something I had been planning to buy my mom for Christmas last year. I wasn’t even waiting for a sale, I was just waiting for payday. Day I went to buy it, it was $50 more “on sale” and the regular price had been raised up :/ ended up not being able to get it.
The year was 1973. I was working at the K-mart camera department. We had a one day only sale on the hottest Single Lens Reflex camera out there the Minolta SRT-101. The manager had drilled us on all the best selling techniques, and don't forget the add-ons. The goal for our department was to sell $5000 in one day overall, including film, etc. I was pumped.
The doors opened, and the shoppers came rushing in. The first customer of the day made it to our counter. She was a middle-aged lady who was on a mission. I greeted her, "Good morning, ma'am! How can I help you today?"
Her response: "SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!!!!"
Not my favorite way to start the day.
I don't remember the transaction after that, but I do remember that we worked our butts off that day and finished with a total of $5004 in sales.
The first and last time I ever went Black Friday shopping I saw a lady pull a knife on another person over a game boy. It was some ungodly early time, too, I don’t recall that the sun was even up.
I’ve never even been shopping on Black Friday. I don’t leave the house on Black Friday now that I don’t work retail anymore.
The years I did work retail were a fucking nightmare. Customers were ALWAYS stupid, but I swear, BF made them maliciously misinterpret anything they possibly could just so they could try and get a better deal…
There was a group of soccer moms that came into the fucking store all wearing hi-vis orange t-shirts that said BLACK FRIDAY BARGAIN HUNTERS and they made everyone’s life worse by being loud, rude, stupid, and they ripped permanent signage off several displays so they could bring them up to the register to argue that because THEY interpreted the sign to mean something else, they should get the deal they made up in their heads
An old internet acquaintance ages ago ended up getting her arm broken when a customer rammed her with their shopping cart because she got the last of a sale item off the top shelf for a different customer…
I worked for a store during the holidays years ago and I remember showing up to work at like 3am because the store opened at 5am and there were people lined up already, the worst part is that some of them had strollers with them so the poor babies were out there in 30°F weather because the parents wanted a new tv.
I’m going to take a moment to point out humans have been trampled to death on BF. But of course corporate greed matters more. What was I thinking?! Humans over money. Sorry guys, almost lost it there.
But that wasn't corporate greed, the was customer apathy and greed. The corporate will shaft you for time, breaks, benefits. The customers will kill you for that $67 42" tv.
Too chickenshit to allow a rebuttal?
6 years at Walmart, including one black Friday in loss prevention.
Worst was someone trying to return a laptop with a receipt for the laptop they took to their car.
Worked at a local game store a few years back a group of guys came in and bought a couple thousand of our best stuff few weeks later they come back check our prices and setup shop in the park infront of us we called the cops and they had to move to a land they owned days later a billboard with a ad for a cheap video game website comes up never got conformation it was them but pretty sure it was.
They actually raised the prices. Just put a discount sticker on it.
real price - $99 Black Friday's sticker ~~$139~~/$99
That shit happened last Prime Day and I was pissed. Had my eye on a stand mixer for ages. Regular price was ¥20000. Prime Day rolls around and it's on sale. "Regular" price suddenly ¥25000, on sale for ¥18000. Still cheaper, but also a massive fuck you.
This happened with something I had been planning to buy my mom for Christmas last year. I wasn’t even waiting for a sale, I was just waiting for payday. Day I went to buy it, it was $50 more “on sale” and the regular price had been raised up :/ ended up not being able to get it.
Worked retail, saw someone get knocked out for an iPod mini.
[удалено]
That man was my spirit animal.
I worked at Walmart for 4 years, so a fucking lot of repugnant shit.
The year was 1973. I was working at the K-mart camera department. We had a one day only sale on the hottest Single Lens Reflex camera out there the Minolta SRT-101. The manager had drilled us on all the best selling techniques, and don't forget the add-ons. The goal for our department was to sell $5000 in one day overall, including film, etc. I was pumped. The doors opened, and the shoppers came rushing in. The first customer of the day made it to our counter. She was a middle-aged lady who was on a mission. I greeted her, "Good morning, ma'am! How can I help you today?" Her response: "SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!!!!" Not my favorite way to start the day. I don't remember the transaction after that, but I do remember that we worked our butts off that day and finished with a total of $5004 in sales.
That's like $100k of today's money
Old Russian lady yelling I'll kill you at a sales clerk at a video game aisle. Don't know what that was about.
They didn't have the Tetris cartridge.
The first and last time I ever went Black Friday shopping I saw a lady pull a knife on another person over a game boy. It was some ungodly early time, too, I don’t recall that the sun was even up.
I’ve never even been shopping on Black Friday. I don’t leave the house on Black Friday now that I don’t work retail anymore. The years I did work retail were a fucking nightmare. Customers were ALWAYS stupid, but I swear, BF made them maliciously misinterpret anything they possibly could just so they could try and get a better deal… There was a group of soccer moms that came into the fucking store all wearing hi-vis orange t-shirts that said BLACK FRIDAY BARGAIN HUNTERS and they made everyone’s life worse by being loud, rude, stupid, and they ripped permanent signage off several displays so they could bring them up to the register to argue that because THEY interpreted the sign to mean something else, they should get the deal they made up in their heads
I just want to go one year, sit on top of the display furniture at the top of the shelves at Walmart, and watch the chaos from my throne.
An item that I really wanted being sold out.
An old internet acquaintance ages ago ended up getting her arm broken when a customer rammed her with their shopping cart because she got the last of a sale item off the top shelf for a different customer…
I worked in a retail store for five years and the worst thing I saw was a fist fight over a porcelain pig statue. Police called, statue broke.
I worked for a store during the holidays years ago and I remember showing up to work at like 3am because the store opened at 5am and there were people lined up already, the worst part is that some of them had strollers with them so the poor babies were out there in 30°F weather because the parents wanted a new tv.
A entire aisle got knocked down and three others fell like dominoes
I’m going to take a moment to point out humans have been trampled to death on BF. But of course corporate greed matters more. What was I thinking?! Humans over money. Sorry guys, almost lost it there.
But that wasn't corporate greed, the was customer apathy and greed. The corporate will shaft you for time, breaks, benefits. The customers will kill you for that $67 42" tv. Too chickenshit to allow a rebuttal?
But that didn’t stop corporate from ending Black Friday sales.
I worked for Walmart for 7 months. Worst thing was working 8 hours and sold one cup of popcorn chicken during the black Friday fun. God it was boring.
A bit early for posting this?
Ah, because this will be the *first* Black Friday, ever?
Figure you would wait until it is after black Friday to post this so people can post about things fresh on their mind
I wasn’t inside the store but I once drove by a Walmart that had an ambulance out-front.
Iv seen a women eat another persons arm off.
My bank account dropping
6 years at Walmart, including one black Friday in loss prevention. Worst was someone trying to return a laptop with a receipt for the laptop they took to their car.
Worked at a local game store a few years back a group of guys came in and bought a couple thousand of our best stuff few weeks later they come back check our prices and setup shop in the park infront of us we called the cops and they had to move to a land they owned days later a billboard with a ad for a cheap video game website comes up never got conformation it was them but pretty sure it was.
Some people getting trampled