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The 2014 Black Friday Frenzy: America Goes Shopping, In Photos
Black Friday is the day when the trademark US consumerism takes center stage for its annual manic, full-frontal exposure around the globe. Here is what it looked like around the US...
People buying TVs
Thanksgiving Day shoppers line up to start shopping at a Target store in Chicago
People carry shoes in Macy's during Black Friday sales in New York
Shoppers line up outside Best Buy before the store opens in Newport, New Jersey
People line up outside before the Toys R Us store opened in Times Square
Women try on shoes in Macy's to kick off Black Friday sales in New York
Shoppers wait to enter Macy's to kick off Black Friday sales in New York
A girl chooses an item from Disney's Princess toy line up to purchase at the Toys R Us store in Times Square
A shopper carries a TV outside a Best Buy store in Newport, New Jersey.
Shoppers enter Best Buy as the store opens in Newport, New Jersey
People look in the window before the Toys R Us store opened in Times Square.
A girl poses with an Olaf plush toy from Disney's Frozen toy line at the Toys R Us store in Times Square.
Thanksgiving Day shoppers ride an escalator while shopping at a Target store in Chicago
Thanksgiving Day shoppers carry televisions at a Target store in Chicago
A woman lines up outside before the Toys R Us store opens in Times Square.
Shoppers line up outside Best Buy before the store opens in Newport, New Jersey
A girl looks at items from Disney's Frozen toy line at the Toys R Us store in Times Square.
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... And not only, because other countries increasingly adopt the "best" of US traditions. Here is what happened in the UK earlier today:
Black Friday hops the pond: Shoppers compete to purchase retail items on "Black Friday" at an Asda superstore in Wembley.
Shoppers wrestle over a television as they compete to purchase retail items on "Black Friday" at an Asda superstore in Wembley, north London November 28
... And Brazil:
Here, shoppers crowd outside a store before it opens on "Black Friday" in Sao Paulo.
Photos: Reuters
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This is the road to recovery!
EBTeevees!
Look how HOOD RICH dem' Folks R!
THEY DONE BOUGHT 3 O'DEM BIG SCREEN PLASMA TVs WIT NO INTEREST FUR 24 MONTHS! WISH I WAS AS HOOD RICH AS DEM FOLKA DA!
We black fried some folks!
I am eating more homemade pecan pie... for breakfast... then going for a long trail run with mrs_horseman to burn it off.
Sexercise later
...and earlier (Endorphin loading).
Black Pipe Friday, indeed
Sad...all gone now.
You men buy your TVs
Buy your DVRs
I eat more pie
Than any man ever seen
Yea yea
Pecan Pie. One of mother’s favorite cooking treats. Grandma, Rhubarb pie was her elegances.
HANDS UP, DON'T LOOT, BITCHES!!!
Shit that Looks Good... Wit Real Whipped Cream...
Fedcoat ZH monitor here: Damn good looking pie, and we're analyzing that granite right now. Hope you bot local. Maybe see you on the horse trail? We'll be waving from our drone!
all those new tv's...i went to dinner at an aquaintence's house for thanks giving and when we got there the television was on. i asked her to turn it off as it was distracting. she did and what a fucking nightmare was the rest of the evening. i keep hoping we've reached the bottom. maybe...i didn't see any pics of leaf blowers.
Are those really pictures from Black Friday sales or are those photos from Ferguson earlier in the week?
Speaking of Ferguson, how about some more photos from the home of liberty, freedumb, and good cheer?
On my command, unleash the fat scooters...
I had Thanksgiving dinner with my family. I guess I am not "American" enough for you yanks who line up at Walmart to buy a crappy Vizzio television that's $50 off it's regular price.
Unfortunately one of my relatives works retail and had to work Thursday night, so he had to take off early. People were sitting in lawn chairs waiting five hours to buy a laptop that was $50 off it's normal price, and it's the most low-end laptop on today's market.
Then again, most people's families nowadays are so broken, that they would rather wait for hours out in the cold to buy shit they don't need, then to actually sit with uncles and aunts and in-laws that they don't get along with.
I don't know what is worse, a shitty family, or a shitty deal on trinkets.
"all those new tv's...i didn't see any pics of leaf blowers"
"Stink of work", etc, etc.
I expect a deafening silence between black Friday and Christmas shopping.
Gotta scrape together a few bones to hit the stores in another two weeks. Wait, that's for people who use the money they actually have to buy things. The sign at the local Fry's Electronics keeps advertising the number of shopping days left until Christmas. It was counting down from 60 days (I saw it at 48, a couple of weeks back, and at 28 a couple of days ago).
I guess people don't really find it weird to be reminded to shop for Christmas around Halloween. Maybe the bells will start ringing when they start pumping Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas shopping in July.
Shitty family, definitely. Especially if you have to wipe off the residue from the chairs they've been s(h)itting on.
Wake me up when Hells Angels are replaced by Scooter Gangs.
Are nail guns on sale???????
For those keeping score...
http://blackfridaydeathcount.com/
Pants up, don't loot...
Bitchez!
The Rock approves this message
You know what? Fuck Macy's, fuck Toys R Us, fuck Best Buy and fuck Target...
.
And while we are at it...fuck Gaspar Gomez and fuck the fuckin' Diaz brothers...fuckem all, i bury those cockroaches...
I've never seen a post capture the Christmas Spirit like the one I just read
Ok, ok, I'll admit you'll probably beat me with those pies of yours. But never, I repeat never, HH, will you beat my homemade vol-au-vent or coq au vin.
Ha! I see you my starter mussels in white wine with my garlic lavender pomme frites, main course boeuf bourguignon with Syrah and mousse au chocolat for dessert. The stage is by candlight and I serve my delights clad in European lingerie. Sensuality and gastronomy meld together well. And yes, we work it off afterwards. ;-)
Miffed;-)
One word: "Badgercize".....
You'll thank me later
Damn, that's some stiff competition. But somehow your menu doesn't seem fair, what with the European lingerie thrown in. If I would serve my menus clad in lingerie, it would play havoc with my wife's digestive system and she would probably be working it off in the bathroom.
Possibly, but your wiff might have unspoken interests.
Well, I must admit Mr doesn't dress for the occasion. For some reason he just smiles and gawks at me and my performance. I guess the stiffness should be left for the gentleman during such events and that is certainly fine by me! ;-)
Miffed;-)
So, I'm wondering, does he not dress at all, hence 'au natural' ?? Does this distract you from your ministrations? I'm sure he appreciates the private showings you provide, so to speak. Who could blame him! He's a fortunate man to be married to you. Courtship after marriage is a lost art.
I was thinking more Reeses Pie and Jack Daniels. About three shots into the meal, ain't no body got no cloths on.
What? You don't want to be pretentious: le tarte Reese's and Jacques Daniel?
ummm, no
Cheers, and save me a slice of pie.
You got it!
HH:
When are you going to publish your annual list of "Man Treats" ???
HH bet you never have to ask ' am i right or am i meringue? '
HH
Are you saying that your a back door man? BTW, why the down votes people?
Maybe they prefer cheesecake or apple pie?
Or thread jacking?
Happy Thanksgiving Mr Horseman!Have a good run.
The Wife and I are heading to the range today!
Lucky for us its only 50 ft out the back door!
Have a good one!
"You men buy your TVs
Buy your DVRs
I eat more pie
Than any man ever seen
Yea yea"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGHhqV_QhzE
Blessings and Grace to you and yours good Sir, and to all the stars on the good ship ZH.
You da man!
Nary a white face in any of the frenzied photos. What subliminal message is Tyler trying to plant?
Brains, brains, brains!!'
Perhaps Black Friday doesn't mean what you think it means.
I see plenty of white folks. And Asian folks, too. We have some dumbass folks in all corners of life in America.
There's nothing dumber than seeing a white teenager pull up in car with rap music blasting out the car speakers.
Been saying that since '86. Disclaimer: I do own a Kool Moe D disc. Back in KFC days my cooks used to play that and every ten years or so I put on Wild Wild West for nostalgia's sake.
NO. This sorta shit is the dumberest:
Google "Oliver Friedfeld."
The antidote....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpsQwl_19M4
DaddyO
"There's nothing dumber than seeing a white teenager pull up in car with rap music blasting out the car speakers."
Yeah, there is:
One white teenager calling another white teenager "nigger."
This I have heard with my own ears. Word.
I understand it's "nigga", not "nigger"
As in "you my nigga"
Something even dumber than that is a white 35 year old still living at mom's house eating Mac and Cheese TV dinners and playing video games all night. But hey, the said 35 year old is an expert on everything, and he told you so through his Farcebook posts that very few even read. He's got a college degree in marine biology and you don't. He's a scientist that works at Best Buy making $9 an hour and knows the latest technology trends. He can cite Dawkins, Darwin, and Hawking quotes off of the top of his head, and he posts crap on the Randi forums on how everything in existance that isn't to his liking is "woo". But hey, you got to trust him. He is an expert and "leet" on any topic, so you better not question his intelligence.
I don't think there is anything Subliminal about it, that's Reality!
Are they actually going to pay for those Big Screens TVs ?
Hands up, don't loot!
There are 39 million black folks in the US. Obviously the majority of them don't loot.
I'd say welfare as well as working in the public sector are a form of looting.
So you're moving the goal posts beyond your initial Ferguson reference?
You're right... They just have the government do it for them.
No, the government does it to them. The government wants to do it to everybody because government itself is the beneficiary.
It's a symbiotic relationship.
The plantation still exists, but most black people don't even know they're on it.
majority of them dont work either
U6 is at 11.5% with black unemployment about twice that of whites. Unless you have some documentation of your own then your maff appears to be incorrect.
If they did work, they would be ringing up the other shoppers at these Black Friday events, lol.
Yeah, the black lady that sold me American cheese the other day was just my imagination. Hardy har har.
Why do you think the burning/looting took place just 2 days before Thanksgiving. Black Friday came early this year!
Kind of funny. I guess it did
And there were no damned lines getting in or checking out
Black Friday just showcases all of the recent .gov imported sheep who took your job.
There are all races
White people are buying shoes
So their feet don't fail them now.
Ummmmm sheep?
Driving home, my wife mentioned how wonderful the low price of gas was and then I reminded her that the last time gas dipped like this, the economy shit the bed. She didn't reply. Enjoy it, buy some tangibles, monster boxes what have you, but get ready. 2015 is going to be a banner fucking year at the old ZH house!
One can only hope!
DavidC
Just out of curiosity (I don't live in US), are the Black Friday bargains still worth lining up for? Or is it all just running on pure hype now?
Running super-cheap prices to get the customers in the door and then jacking up the prices later with no-one noticing is not a new trick and it has to hit BF sooner or later. How's it going over there?
My cousin works for a retail clothing store and they are crapping in their pants they have so much winter inventory they need to clear yet. I don't know if the same holds for electronics but I suspect yes.
they've never been worth lining up for, but especially now. Get the same deals online and have it delivered to your door, all without having to get out of bed. THAT's the new American way.
You can get 40" LED TV's for $119 at Target; a 55" no-name brand TV at WalMart for $220. Yes, there are 'deals' to be had, but nothing worthstanding in lines for hours and hours. Now, if Macy's had a PM section that put monster boxes on sale, i might line up for that.
i thought everybody already had at least 2 tv's, they need another? maybe to ebay later on
Even the EBT crowd have a subliminal mistrust of fiat. TVs are the new currency. Not quite the same portability as gold or silver, but hard to counterfeit, quite liquid and everyone understands their worth.
;P
Unfortunately the deteriorating "quality" of TV shows will have a negative affect on the perceived value of TVs, but luckily, most people haven't noticed this problem yet. Peak TVs.
=P
Usually not backed by debt, but even if they are, that debt can often be hidden and ignored...
You don't enjoy the Retardashians and Honey Boo Boo?
sun tzu re "You don't enjoy the Retardashians and Honey Boo Boo?" :
Living proof that even seriously lobotomized 'tards can still "make it" in the US of A. You'll probably also find that a lot of serious, real talent is broke and homeless.
"If they're happy eating chicken feed then why give them caviar?"
They get paid to do that shit. Meanwhile, other people work in real jobs that pay fuckall. Gimme an honest factory worker. They do real work.
Lining up? It's like the running of the bulls.
Black Friday is so fucking retarded. A disgusting reminder of the degradation of American society.
It doesn't do what the stores want anymore. That's why they are starting it early on Thanksgiving Day. The Walmart ads all say only select items are on sale so if the sale items aren't what you want there is no reason to go shopping on black friday. They hype it up with pictures and ads but it's not much really.
I take it that you missed out on the 19" LCD 720p $499 bargain one year, and are still bitter about it.
It's hype...and stupidly.
Nobody ever gets a deal.
If you must buy the damn big screen, buy it around Jan 6th.
anyway, let the hunger games get under way.
That's no fun. What are you gonna talk about while drinking egg nog at Christmas? How you're planning on getting a TV in a couple of weeks?
Wouldn't you rather be telling how you nailed granny with a left elbow to her forehead in order to secure the big TeeVee on the wall that your Christmas guests will ooh and ahh to?
You make a good point. Maybe put a kevlar vest, elbow pads and a football helmet and head on down to the mall and start slamming into some big fat slugs lumbering along like a fleet of interstate buses?
It is heartening to note that this disease has spread to other countries. The Wembley Asda picture is particularly tasty. We will be celebrating Christmas by planting seeds indoors. Food will be the hot luxury item next year.
Yes, we are exporting human decay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zNsUTWsOc
You said it IR, this is America's export now, cultural genocide :-)
Fighting over dead things, cultural carrion are!
Buy Buy Ms. American pie!
ORI,
From Lady Liberty to Cheap Consumer Whore.
T'was a good run....
For those of you who are open to religious things...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLP5CZLLaG8
This guy's take is 9/13/2015 portends a release of instability and financial uncertainty the likes of which we haven't seen in a while.
Hedge accordingly...monster boxes were alluded to up thread, one of my favorites along with some junk silver coins and small bullion bars.
DaddyO
Indeed IR, it's taken 200 years and a bit, but it looks like she is deep in ho land now....
ho ho ho, soon to come!
Yes, was just thinking, too bad USA does not produce any of that stuff that people are swarming in to buy anymore.
TeamDepends, have you had an IPO on your garden produce yet? Hope I didn't miss out.
Shouldn't surprise anyone to learn that the Asda brand is owned by Wallmart.
I've been saying for years how sick I am of the pernicious influence of American "culture" being broadcast non-stop in the UK. We don't even have "Thanksgiving" (Or The National Day of Mourning as the natives call it), so having a Black Friday is just imported gibberish without any sense or foundation in Britain. Wembley has the largest black and Asian (India/Pakistan) population in London, but to be fair to both I have seen similar scuffles at the Harrods January sales among the horsey women from the home counties fighting over Prada bags when I was a child. Perhaps not so frantic, but similar.
This is not the country I recognize any more. Our PM and his cabinet have got their collective heads up the gigantic derriere of anyone who calls himself the president of the united states, a nanosecond does not go by without the annoying nasal twang of an american accent being broadcast on the airwaves, our kids are saturated with american ghetto culture, the BOE is run by a Goldman Sachs alumni, our banks, real estate, hospitals and businesses have been sold to ZIRP sucking US multinationals and the unwholesome influences of divisive and simplistic sociopolitical sound bites borne out of greed and hate that espouse the "virtues" of avarice and selfishness from zionists like Rand are now the new normal. Oh yes, retarded versions of rugby with morons wearing plastic shoulder pads and safety helmets are shown on the idiot box regularly as well. Apparently we're all American now.
It is a culture that hijacks every great philosophy penned by man since the Age of Reason, like liberalism, socialism, & capitalism, then like infants define themselves by them or pervert them into insults. Welcome to the Idiocracy.
"horsey women from the home counties"...love it!
The first step in breaking free of American ghetto culture is to stop blaming others for your own inadequacies.
Quite right. But also blame where blame is due. If I could stop the fuckers from buying every media outlet and infiltrating our institutions to saturate our youth with American ghetto culture, I would. But I don't have a few trillion laying around the back of my sofa. :)
"a nanosecond does not go by without the annoying nasal twang of an american accent being broadcast on the airwaves, our kids are saturated with american ghetto culture"
We in the states are also inundated with the arrogant, bloviating and ridiculous sound of british accents so I can empathize. Although we do get some good belly laughs from the british white trash accents that we hear in movies so it evens out.
bravo! :)
Don't forget to stock up on satellite phones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppd3HMc52ic
if only it had a bed
I fear it's going deeper
It isnt black friday until you see a couple of obese nubian dumptrucks fighting over discount panties.
You're wish is our command oh benevolent Canadian Dirtlump.
Panty Fight..........
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/black-friday-beatdown-girls-braw...
you know those times a guy hates being right.
god bless you though.
/carries computer to bathroom.
one nation
under wear
with lingerie and jockies for all
The pictures illustrate what an unnatural union of the world's people this country has become. Greed, obesity and mindless consumption are the only common bonds between them.
The question that comes to mind is how the Empire intends to hold its gains around the world with uneducated, obese, mindless drones.
DARPA can't perfect robotic soldiers soon enough for the Satanists in Washington D.C.
Buy big screens because apocalyptic shit looks always better in FullHD.
I don't get the hysteria, Does Amazon.com not exist anymore? Is it really cheaper at Best Buy?
Don't be too hard on them... it's probably the most exercise they get all year.
Yeah, right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKUDTPbDhnA
Oviously you've never had to deal with Amazon return policy. Here's how it works.
Me: "My product is broken"
Amazon: "Ok, I just sent you a new one"
Me: "Do I need to return the broken product"
Amazon: "No"
Me: "Thank you"
Amazon is just as evil as the big box company stores in every one of those pictures.
By giving one's money to the shareholders of the corporate behemoths, they are facilitating the destruction of local businesses and jobs (their own jobs).
The reality is it simply costs more to do things correctly, and if people aren't willing to pay the higher price and shun the corporate oligarchs, then they should shut up and be happy to suck corporate dick.
There are local alternatives...
http://www.christkindlimarkt.ch/2014/home-en/?c=1
I guess I love to fondle and gargle corporate cock. Chinese made crap is Chinese made crap. Why pay more? I don't give a shit who sells it.
You should be getting a call from Ohomo and his Wookie love child Reggie any minute now..........
You shouldn't be buying Chinese made crap in the first place.
Ok, let me type a reply to that comment on an American made laptop.
/sarc
There are certain components where the sourcing options are certainly limited, but there are a few of the many small businesses that make and sell laptops, that tend to focus on non-Chinese components. There are other options like Panasonic or Toshiba. However - they are also corporate behemoths, just with a slightly less Chinese face.
But yeah, if you insist on limiting yourself to NWO corporatist oligarch sales outlets, WTF do you think they are going to offer you?
Try one of these-
http://www.velocitymicro.com/about.php
http://www.pugetsystems.com/aboutus.php
And some others...
https://system76.com/laptops
http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems
http://www.wortmann.de/de-de/contentlanding/terramobile/terra-mobile.aspx
http://www.olivetti.it/IT/Page/t02/view_html?idp=47
http://www.positivoinformatica.com.br/categoria/para-voce/notebooks
http://www.itautec.com.br/pt-br/produtos/computacao
http://www.gradiente.com.br/
The reason it is so hard to find quality stuff is because too many people buy cheap shit that breaks. Quality products become even more expensive due to loss of Economies of Scale.
Mind you, there is still hope for the few quality manufacturers who remain. The best advertisement for the $150 socket set is the ten dollar socket set that breaks.
PT, no shit! Have you tried to find good cast-iron cookware? Even the "high end" stuff has the texture of 80 grit sand paper now, at premium prices.
I have 50+ year old skillet that has better non-stick qualities than teflon, wouldn't take $500 for it.
You got me there. Sometimes the expensive shit is just as bad as the cheap shit. At least with the expensive shit, people are more likely to get pissed off and return it.
When cheap shit breaks, people tend to think "Oh well, what can we expect? It only cost x dollars", not realizing that when you annualize the costs then the cheap shit ain't cheap at all.
I also have a rule of "Never buy the same brand twice". You can sell me low quality shit, but your competitor is going to get the next sale. You can't make me buy too much from you but you can prevent market share from reaching your competitor.
Watch the short film "The Story of Stuf
I remember when flat screens first came out, one the founders of Netscape was a hanging around and showing one off...they cost $7-$10K back then. Status symbol bot so much now, more like Orwellian telescreen.
A lot of the cheap electronic crap these people are hauling out to their cars is designed just for Black Friday sales. Tablets, TVs, and the like will be in the dumpster in a few months.
I can remember my parents holding out until they could afford a Zenith TV or radio, rather than buying some re-branded crap from Montgomery Wards or Sears.
And they can work two ways as well, feeding back via the speaker...
DavidC
1984
1984
1984
Never mind the web cams and the smart phone cams that can be accessed basically at will...
I'd cuddle up to a good book, the internet is almost as disgusting to read as the TV is to watch.
Japan just tested their latest mag-lev bullet train at 500 km/h. It was organized and civil..
Meanwhile back in America were turning our cities into animal cages, people are rioting over a $40 savings on a no-warranty refurb shit TV so they can stuff themselves with salts and sugars and work on their diabetes while they watch netflix, and the ferguson riots..
It's going to be INCREDIBLE when the collapse comes the rioting over a TV will be replaced by the rioting hordes getting food handouts when the hard times come.
When will the precious metals shop lines look like this?
Sooooooon..........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGYaFMFU63U
Losers with fucked up priorities go shopping for substandard products(made in inferior parts specifically for black Friday sales) made to look cheap by the manufacturers...
What about all the shoppers lining up to buy bargains on Wall Street? I guess we will have to wait for Wall Street to have a Black Friday.
I want to see videos of really violent abrasive greed throttling at every fellow citizen to get some pancake maker.
You mean The Road to Perdition?
This beats watching porn!
Truly the US is a light unto nations.
It's all downhill from here...
Damn... and I thought we had descended so far already!
Yawn...fight already
What morons will do for a 5 dollars discount on a price where they first added 5 dollars...
These retailers buy extra for black friday and the rule is: it might look the same product but mostly it's of a lower quality than the original product. Half of that crap doesn't even has a warranty label. You get what you pay for it minus a very large fee.
Or maybe they just go so they can stump children and
old people, you know... the weak on the ground and press their boots in their face.
AND LAST: IF YOU PAY FOR STUFF AT PRICES OF THE THIRD WORLD COUNTRY WHERE PURCHASING POWER IS LOW, YOU GET A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY.
So go buy the cheapes TV and tell your kids that when they grow up, they'll be pulling rickshaws for a living for rich fat Chinese guys who fuck their wives for a bowl of rice!