$398 laptops: Sold out in 5 minutes. People were actually running, and complaining after they got in the store. One woman told us that she had been in line since 1am and got pushed out of the way. She had a shopping cart, but someone took it from her.
$998 Plasma tvs: Home office only sent 3 of them to us, so those went faster than anything.
It was a complete madhouse in the store today. People running everywhere. Ma, was so happy that Nanny couldn’t get online to buy the Garth Brooks box set, but she was worried that they would be all sold out before she could buy one, I took and hid one, untill I found out Lori from the cash office bought her one, so all she has to do is pay back Lori, and Nanny’s present is all taken care of.
I was outside 90% of the day doing layaway running. Which ment that we would stand out there with our thumbs up our asses and wait for the layaways to get to recieving, then I would bring them over with the forklift. Lemmie tell out at 5am this morning, it was fuckin cold outside. What really sucked is that no Dunkin Donuts on the way to the store were open, so Eddie had no caffiene, except for 1/2 a cup of really crappy Great Value coffee. Sucky.
The day went by *so* slow. I am glad to be home now. Course tomarrow, I have to do it all over again at 5am, but atleast I’ll be inside, sweating my ass off!
I took some pictures of the fun hell today, they are in my moblog gallery, and at the top of this page as well.






I felt sorry for anyone in retail today. glad to see you survived the day without getting trampled or pummeled by some soccer in a fit of rage, thats been standing in 15 degree weather since 3 a.m. fueled on bad coffee and garth brooks. jebus the holidays suck. lol
YeaH it was a pretty good day, just froze my ass off.
Every year around the holidays think “I want to get a seasonal job in retail, probably a clothing store” but I never follow through. One of these years I’m gonna have to do it, just to be totally sickened by all the consumerism and remind myself what the holidays are really about.
every year i say “I think I’ll start christmas shopping early this year.”
never happens