Hello anyone who managed to find me.

I’m gonna take a little time to mentioned what us in the Retail world refer to as Black Friday.  This is the Friday right after Thanksgiving, the official start of the holiday buying season.   Retail giants such as Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Circuit City, and so on…, have major sales on this day, such as, in the case of stores like Best Buy and Circuit City, a high-end electronic gadget for anywhere from $100-$300 or even more, cheaper than it normally is.  Stores even open up early (even a small retail store such as where I work, a small home decor like place), and can even implement time-sensitive sales (Early Bird specials, say from 7am to 11am only, this product is gonna be 75% off, or something).

For me, though, I hate it.  It sucks working at a retail store because of this, and it sucks knowing something you want is really cheap, but you aren’t stupid enough to get yourself killed for it, so you miss out on it.  I want to save money, but the idea of getting up in the wee-hours of the morning(or, for me, I’m probably already up, but more likely tired so thinking of going to sleep), wait in large crowds for a store to open, and chances, if it’s a limited supply, the item already gone.  I get there are people who are brave enough to handle it, I ain’t one of them.

Luckily, we have Black Monday. With shopping online gaining more popularity every year, it’s a new thing where several major online retailers have their version of Black Friday (as well as Black Friday Online Only kind of sales). Oddly, there are people who love waiting in line, then again, if everyone went for the online deals, probably every server for the top stores would crash.