OMFG my parents are campers!! HEADSHOT

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited December 2007 in Science & Tech
Line-campers, that is.

Black Friday means dozens of sheeparents are wrapped around Best Buys, Circuit Cities and other various US retailers at absurd hours in the morning. Latest studies suggest, however, that parents are increasingly committing to the digital equivalent. With the prevalence of notifications via email, fast web access and consumer notification websites, the hottest items are being snapped up from webfronts around the globe.

While Black Friday is not a concern in the United Kingdom, this behavior is nonetheless apparent. London's Financial Times takes a look into the attitudes of parents in their quest to deliver the shiniest, bestest gift EVAR under the tree of little girls and boys.

Comments

  • the_technocratthe_technocrat IC-MotY1 Indy Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    HUMILIATION
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    This level of rabid consumerism is not sustainable. Within 10 years there's going to be some kind of revolution. Whether it is dramatic "christmas is cancelled" or subtle like "people stop giving a crap about buying stuff and sales have suffered", I couldn't tell you... but something is in the air. People are starting to tire of it.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2007
    Yeah right. I've heard of people getting at at the crack of dawn just to WATCH those fighting to get in the door but not actually go look for anything. Where there is a deal there will be crazy people looking to steal it away from someone else.
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