Just bought a new refrigerator last night with the missus at “Black Friday” pricing. We priced it on the web, printed it out, took it into the store, and they honored the price. Didn’t have to wait in long lines or get up at 4 AM to do it.
This over-commercialization of the Christmas season is becoming destructive to the fabric of America. We’re supposedly family-centric as a nation but retailers are opening their doors at 10 PM on Thanksgiving night for shoppers.
At some point the public will become so oversaturated that the entire meaning of Christmas and the season will be lost to commercial interests and a chase to make business budgets break even in Q4. It will become increasingly difficult and the fervor will grow to a fever pitch as businesses start losing quarter-after-quarter of revenue to Obama’s taxes and losses of jobs and incomes by the consumers.
Elections have consequences.
I love those Minyanville snipets. Surprised they don’t get more airplay here at FR.
Ubama is going to give the unions card-check, and the NLRB is going to force all employers to turn over the names and addresses of all their employees to the unions.
With these two tools, they can forge the signatures of employees and unionize and company without the consent of the employer or employees.
And their first target is going to be Walmart and the billions of dollars of union dues they will be able to extort for the Democrat campaign-finance slush fund.
The Black Friday Walmart walkouts are being orchestrated straight out of the White Hut. You can take that to the bank.
Once Walmart goes down, the rest of the employers in the country will follow in short order.
The stores won’t be seeing my dollars. One, I don’t have dollars and two, I don’t need more junk.
It used to be the bargains were loss leaders, you drew them in for one thing really cheap and they’d buy other stuff. Now in the internet age people look up their prices before hand, they buy the other stuff as a bargain somewhere else. Lazy people like me seem to be the only ones keeping retail going, I refuse to work harder spending my money than I did making it, and in the software industry I don’t work that hard making it.
Camping out on a sidewalk for days, fighting each other, going for days without sleep. If only they put this much effort into finding a job.