Madness On Black Friday
Posted by: From Arkansas in Are You Kidding Me?, Beyond Bizarre, It's A Rant, Shame of America, What Were They Thinking? on Nov 23 2007
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What possesses a person to go out into the cold weather or warm weather, for that matter, at some insane time of the night to stand in line for literally hours, waiting for the doors to open up so they can make a mad dash to the particular items that they want to buy? The huge discount price? Obviously, but perhaps it is also about the competition. This is madness.
The problem here is that those people are going into a situation with false hopes and with, usually, false information. For instance, a woman stood in line at a Target store for hours only to leave empty handed because the Target staff announced that the item she came for had been sold out since Sunday! What? They can’t put up a sign that says this on the FRONT DOORS???? How deceptive can they get? Where is the manager and why hasn’t anyone contacted the parent company?
Stores that do this are deceiving those who are coming to put all that cash in their pockets. OF COURSE, they will not tell anyone they were out of the product. But that is deceptive advertising, isn’t it. They put out the flyers or the inserts in the paper on Wednesday. Surely they could at the very least put a notice on the doors that they are out of that particular item. How much effort does that actually take???
I believe that the public gets what it deserves in all of this if they participate in Black Friday at all. Not everyone actually does deserve this though. What happens to that woman or man who has very little money and cannot otherwise buy this thing for their child or children? I know what happens. They get somebody coming along and screaming “YOU LOSE”. That’s what happens.
The message we are now sending to the children is that the greed outweighs the honesty, that the competition is the whole thing, that Mom and Dad have to act like school children themselves just to get that one thing the (probably) spoiled brat didn’t need in the first place. We are teaching the kids that it is more important to win the prize than it is to be polite and honest. And we wonder why the world is getting worse and worse. DUH!!! SOMEBODY PLEASE GET A CLUE!!!!
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While this is certainly a deceptive marketing practice, I would be curious to see if this actually is against the law too. False advertising is a pretty serious charge. Then again, there are no guarantees on Black Friday either.
I suspect that the stores are walking the edge of legal. But I do believe that they COULD and SHOULD have placed signs on the doors when they sold out of something that was advertised as being in the huge black friday sales.
And how is this for interesting? How is it possible to sell out of the product they have advertised for a sale day? It seems to me that they would be obligated to keep those products for the sale instead of selling them out BEFORE they even opened the doors.
And I do know that there are no guarantees BUT shouldn’t there at least be one or two of the product advertised because if they do NOT have the product for that “one day only” sale that they said they did, isn’t that false advertising? It sure does look like it to me.
Thanks for the comment.