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Early morning holiday shoppers ride the escalators in the Westfield Centre in San Francisco, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Russel A. Daniels)
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Starting on Thursday, folks lined up outside aggressively non-boutique stores like Old Navy and Wal-Mart across the U.S. in order to get sanity-estranged deals on holiday shopping. Although Black Friday is as American as bad credit and apple pie, many San Franciscans are still amazed every year that folks make mad AM dashes to get bargains of the century.
Anyway, here are some shots from this morning's Black Friday in San Francisco. For those of you who took part in the annual tradition, we hope you got something nice for your family and for yourself.
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I went home to visit parental units for the holidays and was **amazed** to see people CAMPING (tents, folding chairs, grills, etc.) outside of Best Buys here.
Outside of Best Buy? But their "sales" are just everyone else's normal prices. WTF?
I think the idea is that there are a number of super amazing discounted items they offer (e.g. "64 inch HD LCD flat panel TV for $199"), and then the actual stunt that they pull is that in super tiny printing on the ad you'll notice a disclaimer of "quantities limited". As in there might be a couple (or maybe even one?) TV or whatever item is on sale actually available for that crazy low price.
Hence the 5 / 6 / 7 a.m. stampede once they open the doors like what we've seen in the past at Walmarts, etc.
any stampede-related deaths this year? i guess the economy isn't what it used to be these days
i heard someone died at a wal mart. but that happens every year. sad.