It’s time to again Black Friday, which in 2021 is celebrated on November 26. The tradition of big discounts following American Thanksgiving has now gone global and has at times triggered offbeat and slightly crazy behavior in search of the best deal. Here are some curiosities and “madness” that occurred on this occasion
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The name Black Friday comes from Philadelphia slang. According to a New York Times report dated 1975, today’s traffic in the 1960s put a strain on the police, who had to evacuate cars. Hence the denomination
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For the plumbers Black Friday is a day of super work. The almost coincidence with Thanksgiving Day, which is celebrated the day before Black Friday, in fact requires countless interventions to free the drains of the sinks from the remains of the food prepared for the occasion.
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The Black Friday tradition has been broken by Walmart in 2011 which, contrary to what usually happens, opened its doors on Thanksgiving evening
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According to a survey conducted by the coupon company RetailMeNot, 12% of all shop-goers during Black Friday shop under the effect of alcohol
Black Friday is also the time of long lines outside the malls and large chain stores. An example of waiting madness was the queue of people queuing from Target in 2016 in St. George, Utah. That year, Target also opened the day before Black Friday and it took 40 minutes to get all the people in line
Staying in the queue for a long time can have negative effects. A testimony reported on Reddit (a site or rather a very popular community in the United States), for example, reported a scuffle between a man and a security guard. The former had waited all night to be the first to enter the shop. In the morning the guard had skirted the line and the man, believing he was trying to override him, beat the attendant
There are also those who, out of exhaustion, choose to wait behind the wrong door, seeing themselves bypassed by all those who had instead made the right choice. This is what happened to a user who told his story on Reddit and having that wrong entrance he lost the ability to buy what he wanted
Always according to a testimony on Reddit, there are also those who have made the mistake of opening the door to bring some coffee to his collaborators. It was Black Friday and the crowd thought it was the entrance signal
Among the follies of Black Friday, also the story of a pair, told by “Insider”, which has expected 14 hours to buy a couple of $ 2 towels
During Black Friday, as well as doing business, you risk falling victim to scams triggered by purchase psychosis. According to a survey conducted by Dana Mattioli for the Wall Street Journal, prices are inflated compared to the previous sales week by an average of 31%
Speaking of scams, a woman also happened to call on a past Black Friday 911 because it did not match the advertised price with the real selling price. The police sanctioned her for abusing the emergency service
Source-tg24.sky.it