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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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LOL Sudden Debt
Also, have any ofthese Black Friday people heard of the internet? You can consume on your fat ass and be done in 20 minutes after some price comparisions; the "deals" on Black Friday are really scam and this is all designed to provide viral marketing for the corporations.
"Also, have any ofthese Black Friday people heard of the internet?"
You guys are missing the point. This is a major social event, yo. A chance to meet new people, jostle for bargains, and if they gets in you way, bust they chops. You can't get that on the internets.
$5 dollar discount on low tier products, you never seen top tier products discounted of measure on black Friday.
Why ...why...why...is all I can say...and why take your kid to buy them their Christmas present....isnt it supposed to be a secret??? kind of takes the fun out of Christmas and opening your present...
It's not about Christmas anymore. It's about the toys and electronics.
For Christmass, I give my kids a blank paper and a stack of toy folders. And I always tell them they can cut toys from the magazines and paste them on the paper. When the paper is full it stops.
And than we give the paper to santa.
And I never buy them anything they've put on the paper.
And never any electronics. It need to be real toys.
She never crows when the Easter bunny arrives early with the colored eggs.
"And never any electronics. It need to be real toys."
Right. I'm on to you, man. You're one of those guys who buys their kids a sweater. Fuckin' sadist.
Sweater? Sweater? I only got socks.
Close! I bought them a sheep and a shaving kit!
Sheep.
Obey and consume. Obey and consume.....
Oh boy oh boy..... payday....... riots and MOAR!!
UK? Really??? It isn't even a holiday over there so WTF???
off-topic but the timing of the Ukraine coup still seems odd to me with an election only a year or so away but it just struck me that if all the US' gold has been stolen - highly likely imo - and the Dutch and Germans etc were clamoring to get their gold back from US vaults - then the banking mafia in the US might have been desperate to get their hands on some in a hurry - Libya too, I assume all their gold was stolen in the confusion too?
Chavez claimed Libya's gold.
I thought US got Libya's gold, and Ven. got the Tungsten core bars...
After Chavez's untimely demise, didn't some of their gold come back to the US?
Overall, you are on the right track. Spreading freedom (espeically to the countries that hold their own gold)....
Black Friday shopping should be codified as a full contact sport.
I'll be making a black friday purchase today, something nice and shiny me thinks.
Same here, but I am getting my shiny in 9mm format.
Sickening really. This day always depresses me because it truly does lower my personal bar for humanity. I will give "them" credit, they have effectively retarded darwinisin and in is place infected a bunch of humanbots to carry out their plans. But the order of the universe will revert back to the mean in due time. Nothing the rothchilds can do about it. I hope im around to see it.
total insanity.....and asinine
Hunger Games, The Prequel.
Do you have any idea of how much of that shit will be refunded as soon as the first credit card bill hits the mailbox?
Duplicate
Hannibal crossed the Alps!
From Mark Dice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfJezF8diUg
What people? All I see in those pics are lemmings and sheep.
Great pics of UN distributing food aid to needy people...
Redistributing food from producers to themselves. The needy people are accidental. Its more profitable to incarcerate them.
Do not be deceived. Socialists only care about their paychecks and pensions. They just sell your assrape as beneficial to the greater good.
The greater good. The greater good.
They tax the people in the world who are doing good. In fact, the people in the world who are doing good are the only ones being taxed. In France its 40% off the top. Too bad they just stand there and take it, at best aspiring to become like minded criminals. Hillary? Hillary?
Protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, are calling for a Black Friday boycott.
latest
http://tersee.com/#!q=black+friday&t=text
In Ferguson they are boycotting Black Friday sales because you are actually expected to pay for the crap. In Ferguson they just loot the stuff for free.
You know, today is a great day to go skiing. All the normal people are out shopping. Powder!
This is all so freakin pathetic it makes me sick. Stores opening on midnight on Thanksgiving day, making a mockery of the whole 'celebrate with the family' BS. And all media outlets play right along. And people fighting over a TV so they can watch the mindless garbage the MSM feeds them?
Apparently workers in anything retail-ish do not get time off on T-day, at all. Everyone must work Thur and Fri, no exceptions or you are fired.
I am waiting for them to begin the Xmas Sales before Labor Day. K-mart had a mock advert 10 days after Labor Day, so it is coming next year or the year after...
I don't see any pictures of people lining up at banks or credit unions to deposit funds into a savings account. Did I miss that?
These are consumers not people. They dont have savings they have debt. Their ability to make interest payments on that debt is the basis of the current economic miracle. its all good.
Where have you been since the Nixon Shock? Or even more recently, where have you been since the 2008 bailouts?
Savers are losers nowadays.
Let's see, consumers can get a "high-yield" savings account with a 0.9% return, or they can get a 5% cash back rewards on their credit card.
During the Volcker years, it was smart to have savings, but his tenure is long over.
monopoly,
Where have you been?
Savings accounts have been disappeared for a while,
along with the vanishing of interest paid on savings accounts.
I believe those big screens were a bit cheaper at McDonald's in Ferguson last week.
Fire sales doesn't compare to BF sales.
And there is the obligatory 10.00 dump on gold. Right on cue. Pathetic.
This is why I don't care about the poor or the disappearing middle class. They're too busy commiting financial suicide.
Fighting over the next green butt plug and a pair of panties.
Society has fallen to its lowest level.
Sumup: It was absolutely disgusting but I got my Dyson. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/28/black-friday-sales-police-attend-supermarkets-amid-scuffles
This is what you want… this is what you get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Ne9sRcSrM
There must be a reason why the call it ‘Black Friday’.
Just by looking at the pictures its a total Chimp Fest.
Classic quotes from The Guardian article that Youri posted:
“I don’t even know how much it costs, I don’t know even know if I’m going to buy it. I just wanted something,” she said. “There are lads in there three, four, five tellies. It’s not fair.”
One of those lads was Andy Blackett, 30, an estate agent, who had two trolleys full of bargains. “I got two coffee makers, two tablets, two TVs and a stereo,” he said. “I couldn’t tell you the prices, but I know they’re bargains.”
Just charge it! The pain comes later.
Forget about getting together with family, going shopping.
buy stahks
A 60 inch HD flatscreen in every house and a tankful of cheap gas. What the hell else could you want. The irony of this being done in the name of Christ, oops can't say Christmas, is just too thick to ignore. Retailers in this country deserve what they get from the massive oversupply they have made.
It's hard for me to imagine any dept./box store items being important enough to participate in that. But hey, to each his own.
Hubby, the dog, and I enjoyed our turkey yesterday. Hope y'all did too. Happy holidays.
What happened at Walmart?
No photos?
No survivors.
Yup just your average low life looking parasites out spending money they did not earn, and buying junk that will end up on the trash barrel in the next three months ..
The sheep spending borrowed money on cheap shit from China. Dumb fucks. Krugman must feel pleased.
Hey fellas NTR 10 oz silver bars are .50 above spoy until 10AM eastern at SD bullion. Then the OPM rounds are .79 above spot for awhile too.
Those are black friday specials I can deal with.
But they won't ship until 31 Dec.
Maybe so, but silver will certainly last you longer than some shit TV or tablet. I'm not crazy about delayed shipment, but I do like to BTFD while it lasts. A savings account you can fondle.
Like titties.
Bet you can't eat just one.
-Carlin (or Lays)
No you can't eat a shiny
But I'll certainly trade
A juicy homegrown steak for one though.
Nice photos. Pretty civilized bunch.
just wait untill the lot of vibrators and butplugs runs out... it's when the stampeding begins...
You can almost hear Ohomo screaming at the Wookie now.....
"Where's my vibrating buttplug?"
A friend from Haiti used to tell me that African Americans should have the day off if it was called black Friday.
Ha!
Headline is misleading. I see very few Americans in those photos.
SO TRUE!! WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE WHITE PEOPLE DOING ON THE PHOTO'S????!!!
must be European....
why don't they just drive to Ferguson for a free TV
not too many white folks in these pictures
That's because the white folks are in their tents camped out in front of the iSheep store. Gotta get their hands on the newest NSA listening device before anyone else, LOL. Sheeple come in all colors.
WTF is an "Olaf plush toy" ? and who'd buy it?
See??, Keynes WAS right!!!
The wife was out shopping today and commented when she got back about just how great some of the deals were this 'Black Friday'.
I said, 'Sweetheart, what the fucks a 'Black Friday', seeing as this is fucking England like?'.
Gave me a funny look she did.
???
Consumerism, mindless, out of control consumerism will destroy us all.
;-(
Same here in Norway. The whole 'west' is idiot-amerika now.
And everyone in every pic was .... UGLY.
Not that I'd chase the Asian woman in the beanie at Tools R Us outta my bed, though.
Poorly dressed, fat, wearing jeans and sneakers, appearling to be lower class, and dressed like children or teenagers.
Writing like uneducated ignoramuses.
The dregs of humanity.
New Yawk, New Joisey, Chicago ain't America, yu dum fuks. Nobody in the rest of the cuntry gives a fuck about them animals.
On all the products it is written:
Made in China. No recovery.
I await the day the EBT cards stop working.
I would hate on people for wanting stuff, but I spent $100 on Steam's sale yesterday
American "culture" on display for the world.
People of all economic classes out buying things that 95% of the world's people can't afford.
It's HORRIBLE!
You Mean People was Paying for stuff they was Carrying out of Dem Stores ?
only 35 more looting days till Christmas... /Humor
Ah, yes, the games and circuses play on while, behind the scenes to most, the coiled spring of massive public and private debt that allows them continues to gain energy.
Makes me puke ..
The Walking Dead
sicko society
once a slave always a slave
tick tock
These parasites are dumber than a dog eating it's own vomit....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfJezF8diUg&list=UUzUV5283-l5c0oKRtyenj6Q
I missed it. I'll have to study up on how to be more gluttonous?
A life centered around money is a hollow one and a nation centered around money isn’t really a nation.
"...we in Africa know that a dying lion is devoured by its escort of hyenas and jackals...
The modern democracies of the West, with their philosophies of the stomach and the stock exchange, cannot inspire the people nor protect them. They despise nationhood and despise race. But without our national and racial backbones how shall we stand erect? With quicksands as our foundation how shall we build? How shall we be true to ourselves if we have no selves? Our race is what we are; it is our form. It is our fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters and wives and children. They are the race. How then shall we count it of little worth? Shall we despise our own flesh and blood? Is that what modern democracy is supposed to mean? Is that what Christianity is supposed to mean?"
White man, think again! by Anthony Jacob, Johannesburg 1965
You can't stand erect if your a Aigamuxa either. Maybe the Africans will invent the next world and show the white man how it's done.
Black ghetto thug friday.
These deals arent even that good. I don't get it.
your correct, the deals SUCK BIGTIME !!
these are not people, just ROBOTS for " the Man "... stupid, full of GMO's and transfat which has elimanated brain function
Consumer Robots.... go buy some crappy chinese shit and increase your debt !
It's a perfect opportunity to punch your fellow man in the face. You know, Chirstmas cheer and all.
"Seasons Beatings"
talk about beatings, look at silver. Next stop looks like a 14 handle. Who cares that deliveries may exceed supply by xxxx to 1
Its because the sheeple are being told it good. Threfore, it must be a good deal in thier mind. If maninstream TV says its so, it must be. Pretty sad!
You know how it goes: 50% OFF (in small print: on prices we recently increased 50%).
Bill, jack up those TVs 100% an' take 50% off!
Right, boss.
It's their religion. They bow down at the altar of iKrap.
Here, this will brighten your day; it's Jamie Diamond as a kid back in the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lc-hCd-HpM
This is how the mainstream sheeple, who don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of, demonstrate their life priorities. Ever see them fight like this for justice, a better education system, to stay out of war, or a system of fair taxation? The politicians that run this country are voted in by these same "folks", which should pretty much explain everything that is wrong with America.
silverer
"....or a system of fair taxation."
A system of unfair taxation is enabling them to shop for free in the first place. Don't expect them to fight that system anytime soon.
Yes, 10-4 on that one.
Yeah, I was in Walmart Wed, You should have seen all the folks getting cash back on their EBT cards. They don't want to miss their chance to get more free stuff, other than just food.
Food? Yo, I needs mah EBT in cash. De chilren can eat white bread an' pnut buttah when dey watch teevees. Awright, bitch, get some jelly, too.
Gruber explained it quite succinctly, no? American voters are dumb in large numbers.
"The politicians that run this country are voted in by these same "folks", which should pretty much explain everything that is wrong with America."
"Folks" is just a polite & politcally correct synonym for rubes.
I saw no difference in the stores. Sorry.
I'm suprised that no one is offering cheap, charted flights to the southern hemisphere so you can Black Friday Shop in shorts and shirt sleeves... EBT cards accepted...
They're just prepping for the end days when the SHTF.
Retail is for suckers.
Black Friday: The EBT money heads for the stock market, after leaving the taxpayers.The top 0.0003 percent, after being bailed out of the '08 crash by taxpayers, still ride the gravy train.
The top 400 households got 16 percent of all capital gains in 2010 | The Washington Post
Matt O'Brien November 25
This is what oligarchy looks like.
In 2010, the IRS reports that the top 400 households — or the top 0.0003 percent, for those of you keeping score at home — took home 16 percent of all capital gains. That's right: one out of every six dollars that Americans made selling stocks, bonds, and real estate (worth more than $500,000) went to the top-third of the top-thousandth percent of households.
It wasn't always thus. Between 1992 and 2005, the top 400 households "only" received an average of 7.8 percent of all capital gains. And, as you might expect, they got more of their money from wages back then — albeit, a still-paltry 13.8 percent — than the 6.4 percent they do today.
What's changed? Well, the housing bust happened, the middle class got scared off stocks at the worst possible time, and the top 1 percent (and really the top 0.1, no the top 0.01, no the ...) have more money to invest than at any time since 1939. Add it all up, and you can see why capital gains have become the ultimate luxury good.
Here's what all that means. In 2005, the housing bubble was in full, heady swing, and there were plenty of Miami condos, let alone actual houses, selling for more than the half-a-million-dollar capital gains exclusion on real estate (the first half-a-million in profit is exempt from taxes).
So, in other words, so many McMansions were being sold that the ultra-rich's share of capital gains fell a bit. But then the word "subprime" entered the vernacular, and both housing prices and sales fell off a cliff—with no real recovery since. Even worse, as Josh Zumbrun points out, everyone but the top 10 percent either couldn't afford to or couldn't stomach hanging on to their stocks as markets tanked in 2008.
That's why the subsequent bull market—and it's been a historic one—has been even more of a black tie affair than usual. And it doesn't hurt that, after 30 years of skyrocketing income inequality, the top 1 percent now control a bigger share of wealth than they have since FDR was railing against the "malefactors of great wealth" of his time. The more money you have, after all, the more money you have to invest.
Not only are the rich getting richer, though, but because they're getting more of their money from capital gains, they're getting taxed less, too. Remember, the top tax rate is 39.6 percent on ordinary income, but it's just 23.8 percent on capital gains—and was 15 percent in 2010. That's why the top 400 households only paid an effective rate of 18 percent then.
It's gotten so good for the Masters of the Universe that all they can complain about now is the "hyperinflation" in the Hamptons. Talk about problems.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/25/the-top-400-households-got-16-percent-of-all-capital-gains-in-2
Yes, but if they hold it in fiat, the same thing that happened in 1929 will wipe a lot of them out.
Score a small parcel of land, and do not get on the FEMA bus.
The photos above should prove a cringeworthy spectacle for anyone with a shred of decency.
People lining up to purchase in a time of plenty vs. a time of scarcity. IT'S HORRIBLE!
I'm taking my granddaughter to pick out a kitten at the SPCA animal shelter this afternoon. I hope the crowds are not too crazy.
Today is one of my favorite days of the year. I love the sight of "Grubers" displaying their Christmas spirit with fists and outrage. Looks like it spread to the UK this year. Tis the season!
The ZMSM loves to take a few examples of overindulgence and try to transpose it to the general population.
Do not Play their game.
The people in these photos don't look frenzied at all. Smells like MSM come-out-and-shop propaganda to me.
where are the white people? looks like shots from a 3rd world country. oh that's right it's America i forgot what a great job obama and his liberal handlers have been doing of late.
Celebrating in CXhina as US consumers send money
Exchanging money for goods is bad, right?
"It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same level, the fire of genius was extinguished, and even the military spirit evaporated."
-- Gibbon
I call BS on this Black Friday. Where are the shootings, stabbings and stampedes America's famous for on a traditional Black Friday. It's just too damn guiet. I want to see the mayhem we're famous for pretty fast or I'm going back to sleep.
They're making the Georgia Guidestones look sensible
Especially #2 & # 10
1 Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2 Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3 Unite humanity with a living new language.
4 Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5 Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6 Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7 Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8 Balance personal rights with social duties.
9 Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10 Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.
faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason- with the influx of all the others; Black Friday should be Minority Friday. The plague that destroys societies all around the world...I don't see reason as a trait in these people any more than I see in the Ferguson looters.
One of the many reasons I like Putin: "In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in Russia, should speak Russian, and should respect the Russian laws. If they prefer Shari'ya Law, then we advise them to go to those places where that's the state law. Russia does not need minorities. Minorities need Russia, and we will not grant them special privileges, or try to change our laws to fit their desires, no matter how loud they yell 'discrimination'. We better learn from the suicides of America, England, Holland and France, if we are to survive as a nation. The Russian customs and traditions are not compatible with the lack of culture or the primitive ways of most minorities. When this honorable legislative body thinks of creating new laws, it should have in mind the national interest first, observing that the minorities are not Russians." -- Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressing the Duma February 4th, 2013.
With new hi-def TVs, these geniuses will become even more zombified
The master plan is exceeding expectations
I doubt this represents the majority of the American population.
Nobody I know has participated in this goofiness.
We spent all day Thursday with family and friends and some football, the only time of the year we watch unless our Alma matta is in a bowl game.
IMO, it's just propaganda from the ZMSM.
the fundamental problem with the study of economics is the entire discipline hinges on the actions of rational self interest. every black friday confirms there is no rational man.
APMEX Black Friday Sale! Huge discounts on all gold coin denominations! 50% off 2013 Gold Eagles now until Midnight Friday!
I thought I had a dream about this last night. Must have been the wine.
"The Shopping Dead by AMC"
Alibaba Massive Fraud
Unrelated, but I believe highly important none the less. We have some smart people on ZH and curious if anyone else has heard or read about this. I am hoping someone that has the time and resources can look in to this and do some homework.
I was listening to The John Batchelor Show one night about a week or so again. He is on the radio and can be found online. Incredibly well versed on many international topics and world history. I highly recommend you tune in to him when you have a chance.
In any event, he had three guests (from China) on and the discussion was surrounding a massive fraud at Alibaba. The story goes something like this. Alibaba is a marketplace and they collect a fee on each purchase from merchandisers that operate via their website. Alibaba understands net profits and margins are of little concern to Wall Street, but growth in revenues and now we are talking. Many multiples for "growth" in a global economy that is barely creeping along. So, Alibaba hires a network of thousands to simply buy and return products all day. If Alibaba held inventory this fraud would be somewhat more difficult to pull off, but with thousands of businesses connected to Alibaba it is very easy to hide the costs of labor and returns in underlying (most likely very closely held) companies. Afterall, billions of $'s in stock price appreciation will pay a lot of people to sit on a computer all day and buy and return stuff on their website..
This is massive securities fraud and according to the guests, the scheme is "well known" in China. Besides the financial statement fraud, one would have to wonder what type of due diligence was done by the investment bankers that brought Alibaba to market?
I don't know about you, but I think this could be a watershed Enron-like, Madoff-like story.
Jack Ma is a scammer.
Hedge accordingly.
It's just a data base. That's it.
There are very little to no barriers to entry.
TPTB are nervous...PMs have been hammered.
There is a fire sale.
Stock up!
Reports started coming in around 6:00AM this morning from the local mall and surrounding stores that shocked even me.
Not only were the car parks empty but many of the stores had more employees working than customers. It was quiet all night and has only now started to pick up.
I choose to opt-out of the annual Mammon orgy, which is surfaced over with a (thoroughly faded) patina of Chrisitian religion.
I simply cannot understand how people get so excited about buying mass produced units of whatever. I guess this shows most people really will always be slaves one way or another. If it's not working the fields, it's being a cog in the fiat-consumer machine. Thus a very select few of either ruthless or smart (perhaps both) game for themselves the finer things in life.
Can someone create and/or find and then post a link to the best Black Friday, Amerikan style video, please. The one with the tazing, tear gasings, bitch slapping, and yo-girling. Thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w7FjW3QeiQ
I shop therefore I am.