Boxing Day Explosion
Advertising has such a huge impact on our lives. We see that prices are going to be chopped and we rush to those stores to hopefully save a couple dollars here and there and in the big picture, hopefully save lots by the time our shopping sprees are done. In the States, their busiest shopping day is known as 'Black Friday' and here in Canada, Boxing Day is probably one of if not the busiest.
I need a harddrive for my laptop so I thought that maybe, just maybe I would be able to get some sort of deal for one if I got up early for the early morning boxing day sales. I decided to get up early and check out the local Future Shop and Best Buy and see what deals there were out there. It's 6:15am and I get up to leave(both future shop and best buy are open at 6 but there was no way I was getting up that early...). I get dressed and hop in my cold car and pick up a Timmy's coffee cause, well, it's stinkin' early. I arrive in the parking lot and it was full...naw, full doesn't explain it, it was packed! I couldn't believe my eyes, this early in the morning and people are even more crazier than myself. I walk in and anyone person would have thought that the store was giving away their stuff at blowout sale prices with how busy it was(remember, 6:30am), the harddrive I need was sold out even though it wasn't on sale so I left. As I was leaving, I was walking through an isle and in the next isle over, is a long line for a cashier near the computer stuff. One guy was actually getting overly frustrated because the line wasn't moving, he actually was freaking out, it was really funny! I followed this guy to take a couple back roads to the best buy. This guy was insane; he was driving like a maniac to make it to the Best Buy. He must've been on a mission to get something before the next Joe would get it before him. He was speeding and he just barely made a light that turned red to get onto the main road that the Best Buy was on and by the time I stopped at the red light, he was turning into the parking lot.
Best Buy was not as busy as Future Shop but it still was amazingly busy for it to be that early in the morning. At the Best Buy, CH 11 had two trucks parked outside, I am guessing that they had a morning broadcaster talking live from there. Ok, I go inside and check things out and find out that what I want isn't on sale so I decide to not stand in an hour(+) line for something that is not on sale and as I was about to leave, paramedics were walking up the isle to the back where someone was hurt. Yup, it's that insane there that someone got hurt in the Best Buy. I leave and there is now two CH11 trucks, a firetruck and an ambulance, what a sight haha. I wish I had a camera with me to take a picture. I drive up to a store called Factory Direct in Hamilton(I only live in Burlington near Brant st. so it isn't far to the Hammer) and after waiting in an half hour line outside I hear someone talking about the person who got hurt in the Best Buy and apparently he dropped a penny and accidentally got kicked or something and then was hurt. This just proves how busy it really was there. I couldn't help but to chuckle inside; not at the person getting hurt but at the idea that someone did.
Well, moral of the story, Don't go shopping at 6 or 7 am on Boxing Day, it isn't worth your time or effort unless you are willing to fight off 200 other people after the same sale item as you.
posted by Dan Ponsen @ 9:40 PM
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