Any stories about any shopping escapades today? In the US the day after Thanksgiving most stores have huge 1 day only sales. These draw ridiculous amounts of people. Well, me and my dad saw that there were some really good GPS navigators in the Staples (an office store) flier. We figured, what the heck, might as well see if we can grab a couple for our cars.
The store opened at 6AM we got there like 5:45 in hopes of getting in ASAP. Well apparently we should have gotten there like maybe more like 3:45AM there was already a line of at least 200 people wrapping around the store. This isn't a very big store mind you. It's capacity was almost maxed out with that many people. So we were pretty much just ready to leave when we saw the line, but decided, hey why not, we're already here, lets do it.
So after waiting for the end of the line to unwrap itself from around the building we filed in. And it was just insane inside, people running 'round everywhere. We ended up finding out that in order to get any expensive items featured in the advertisements you had to get a ticket from a customer service desk, then you pay for the ticket and go pick up your item elsewhere (kinda screwy but it works I suppose).
We got to the service desk where we could get the item ticket and while I was waiting I slid a store flier on the table over a few inches just so I could get the item's name. Apparently it was the dude's next to me (how should I have known, it was just lying there like they were using it for reference to the items people wanted). He gave me a dirty look and said. Hey, that's my flier and yanked it back real fast . I'm thinkin'.... sooooorrry dude. It's not like I was going to steal it or anything. People are ridiculous at these sales.
Anyhow, the GPS we went there for was sold out, and we asked for the next best one. There were some left. Just as we were about to tell her to give us 2 tickets some guy pops up and asks for one. There were a total of 3 tickets left o_0 So we got really really lucky we managed to even get them. If that guy had come and ninja'd the last ticket or something I'd have been pretty upset, he just pretty much cut in line and all. The lady gave it to him before finishing serving us. Stupid people.
So we then had to wait in the checkout line for probably around 40 minutes. It was huge. It all worked out though and we got what we wanted, but that's the first and probably the last time I ever experienced the shopping madness of the day after Thanksgiving.
Anyone have any interesting stories or cool purchases today?
