“I got a Dyson but I don’t even know if I want it. I just picked it up,” Louise Haggerty, a 56-year-old hairdresser and waitress, said of her 1am trip to the Black Friday sales. “It was mental in there. It was crazy. It was absolutely disgusting, disgusting.”
“I got a Dyson but I don’t even know if I want it. I just picked it up,” Louise Haggerty, a 56-year-old hairdresser and waitress, said of her 1am trip to the Black Friday sales. “It was mental in there. It was crazy. It was absolutely disgusting, disgusting.”
I went to an Outlet village shopping this evening. Stupidly I didn't think they'd have anything going on as they already have discounted items. Little did I know. I managed one shop and left. It was vile. If I'd known, I wouldn't have gone. People acting like animals buying heaps and heaps of stuff.
In a shopping village too of all places...makes you wonder where you can escape that kind of behaviour.
I arrived in Llanidloes this morning at 08:30. The town name is bigger than the town. Tumbleweed blew down the High Street. The newsagent was open. The board outside said "Riots in Llani - may be on TV".
There was no sign that anybody had got out of bed, let alone had a conversation with raised voices.
Black Friday is not a universal phenomenon.
(By the way, I was there when we had water rationing in July 2007. The Government were very glad that Plan B worked)
I don't like shopping at the best of times, can't imagine wanting to go to 'the sales' to buy crap I don't need or want.
If I want something I search the internet for the best bargain.
I think Tesco were using 'Black Friday' to boost their crap returns for the year. From what I've seen, buying in the sales, often isn't such a great time to buy anymore anyway. Better bargains can be had during the year in non sales.
Anyway, I'm avoiding the shops for the next 6 weeks.
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The older I get the more I enjoy cheese... Hope there are some nice ones
though I'm not actually that impressed by Caerphilly cheese...
To enjoy it properly you just need to eat it Caerphilly.
And it'll probably just end up gathering dust.
Get in!
Do the bargain hunters define themselves as winners only if they nail a bargain?
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I don't know if most bargain hunters are that sophisticated, Ric.
They seemed like a pack of Hyena's fighting over a dead Zebra? But which of those was actually the most sophisticated?
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In a shopping village too of all places...makes you wonder where you can escape that kind of behaviour.
i find it quite entertaining in an x-factor kind of way
I arrived in Llanidloes this morning at 08:30. The town name is bigger than the town. Tumbleweed blew down the High Street. The newsagent was open. The board outside said "Riots in Llani - may be on TV".
There was no sign that anybody had got out of bed, let alone had a conversation with raised voices.
Black Friday is not a universal phenomenon.
(By the way, I was there when we had water rationing in July 2007. The Government were very glad that Plan B worked)
I don't have a TV either.
I don't like shopping at the best of times, can't imagine wanting to go to 'the sales' to buy crap I don't need or want.
If I want something I search the internet for the best bargain.
I think Tesco were using 'Black Friday' to boost their crap returns for the year. From what I've seen, buying in the sales, often isn't such a great time to buy anymore anyway. Better bargains can be had during the year in non sales.
Anyway, I'm avoiding the shops for the next 6 weeks.