I currently work at Best Buy, one of the biggest retail stores in america. I was working the night before thanksgiving and customers kept asking for a copy of the black friday ad. Everybody was eager to get their hands on a copy of the ad. Little did they know, employees at best buy had not even seen the ad themselves. Best Buy tried to keep the ad as confidential as possible. As I was working the night before thanksgiving , many customers were already asking if they could start lining up. As I was clocking out that night my manager handed me the ad. I was amazed that only a few things were on sale, and for most items there were only a few in stock. The commotion in commercials and the ads drive people crazy to make them think there are many deals when there really isn’t. Many items they just threw a SALE tag on it and people went for it. Other items were already on sale and customers thought there was something special about it that day. I work in the cell phone department and we have had the same prices for about a month. I activated more phones in one day than what i usually activate in a week. All this day was cause more traffic in the store to have them buy items that they didn’t even think about buying. Speaking of traffic, it was horrible on the way to the mall. It took me forever to get in the parking structure then took me even longer to find a parking spot. Thank you retail and thank you black friday.
Black Friday
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