November 24, 2006
At 6:45 a.m. this Friday morning—barely had I digested my pumpkin pie—I did see a family of three pushing a shopping cart with a giant flat-screen TV down lower Ninth Avenue. Filled with both admiration and disgust, I did what any New Yorker would do: I kept moving. You really want that flat-screen TV that badly, well then, you get it.
About an hour later on Sixth Avenue, I saw hordes in front of Best Buy, and a few shoppers with Macy's bags. It wasn't even 8 a.m. Seems lots of Americans got up in the pre-dawn hours to go shopping. Some even got black-and-blue doing it. Here are a few doo-dads out of context:
• shoppers pushed and shoved their way into the Fashion Place mall in Murray, Utah
• Once inside, shoppers ransacked stores, overturning piles of clothes as they looked for bargains.
• “We were not prepared for this,” said Amber Friedrichsen, the store’s manager.
• “Sold out, sold out, sold out,” announced the manager at a Staples on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan yesterday at 7 a.m. “When?” asked the incredulous customer. “An hour ago,” replied the manager — in other words, the minute the store opened.
• “Oh, my god, stop pushing me, oh, my god,” screamed Linda Tuttle, a 47-year-old employee at the store.
There's a sucker born every minute. Next year digest your dinner before you go out shopping.
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best buy, macys, pumpkin pie, staples
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