My Black Friday at Wal-Mart

I love and hate Wal-Mart, and last night’s Black Friday at my local Supercenter was proof of that.  I attempted to purchase a BluRay player that was marked down to $49.  When I got to the check out the cashier scanned the player, mumbled something, and proceed to throw the box in a bin behind her. 

“Uh, what are you doing?” I asked politely. “You can’t buy that until after midnight,” she replied with a tone of defiance and distain.  “Yeah, the why the F*&^ was it out on the floor before midnight.”  No response.

I could go on about her and her seemingly disgusting social skills and lack of personal hygiene. But this is about Wal-Mart on Black Friday.  The store I shopped at laid out items for sales that apparently couldn’t be bought until after midnight.  Its bad enough I had the itch to start my Christmas shopping early, but give me a break. I’m not going to Wal-Mart at 10pm (the advertised start time of their Black Friday event) then stick around till midnight to get a $50 BluRay player or a $200 HDTV.  So I left.  I returned this morning to find three pallets loaded with those same BluRay players and at least a few hundred of the $200 HDTV’s. You lost a sale, Wal-Mart, because you couldn’t get out of your own way to give me, THE CUSTOMER, what I wanted when I wanted it. I wonder how many other fools got caught in the time vortex of Wal-Mart’s time sensitive sale.  Morons.   

Merry Christmas everyone.