Black Friday was a hilarious holiday this year in my household. I spent this year's at Stockton, with the family. Normally, we'd spend it sitting in line outside Best Buy etc. and hanging out for 6 hours for the stores to open. We'd never really be in it to buy anything wicked awesome or super important, but rather just do it to hang out laugh at our stupidity. This year's Black Friday though, we avoided. Lines in Stockton at every store this year wrapped around the entire building. Violence was also much more common throughout the country than in previous years. In fact, a man got shot during a robbery right outside the nearby mall. This happened in the morning, when all the crazy hustle to be first should have ended. I myself visited the mall Friday afternoon to find the place still packed and crowded. I overheard a man reporting a different robber to the police, too.
But why all the violence and urgency to camp out all night in the freezing cold to be in the top 100 people to be first in the stores? (< that sentence feels too wordy, eh). The answer is technology (see? it's actually related to the assignment). People go crazy for the stuff and crave to buy all the newest TVs, laptops, video games, etc. all at the lowest price. When I went to Best Buy, I found myself not even wanting a single thing in the store. What I noticed was people weren't necessarily in need of anything, but want to buy something just because it was available. Old laptops and small TVs still sold well just because they were cheaper. In a technology/money-centric society, common sense and human decency became disposable.
My solution: do all your shopping behind a screen. Go online on Cyber Monday and shop (possibly while you're in class) with your computer/laptop/etc.
P.S. Don't be stupid and buy a 500 GB hard drive for $80 or even $60. All HDD are priced highly right now because of the flooding in Thailand and no matter how black Fridays or how cyber Mondays are, they won't be as cheap as they can be. You're better off just waiting or actually researching online.
Oh yeah, post was inspired by that idiot pepper spraying everyone at Wal-Mart.
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