Black Friday Follow-Up
After a lot of publicity from angry employees about opening at midnight on Black Friday, the big box stores didn’t buckle to the pressure, and Target, Best Buy and Kohl’s opened their doors at midnight on Thanksgiving evening. Even though there were numerous petitions circulating online, signed by hundreds of thousands of people telling stores to not open at midnight, it didn’t stop the shoppers from coming out in droves to shop for bargains.
The news stories following Black Friday had less to do with the petitions circulated by disgruntled employees and more to do with “competitive” shoppers. In Los Angeles, a female shopper sprayed a crowd of shoppers with pepper spray in order to clear a path to the display of Xbox video game players. Ten shoppers suffered minor injuries from the pepper spray.
Overall, Black Friday has been a boom for businesses. Reports are that Black Friday sales were up 16% this year from last year. Coupled with the good state fiscal news reporting a surplus of $876 million dollars and today’s improved unemployment numbers things may be looking up.
Hopefully, the employees who started all the online petitions are now focused on doing their jobs and positively contributing to business.
