Black Friday Body Count: What Body Count?

It totally screws up my gimmick, but anything that means less work for me while simultaneously making the world slightly more civilized is fine by me. Black Friday shoppers hunt savings without the frenzy of past years The real story here isn’t that 2016 is a down year for some reason, but that we’re finally …

Black Friday Body Count: Quidco Down!

I didn’t know what a Quidco was until right this second, but if you do and haven’t heard yet, it’s currently down due to what is thought to be a Black Friday related server crushing stampede. Quidco, the cashback site, has gone TITSUP amid a push to encourage British consumers to engage in the US-imported …

Black Friday Body Count: Your Rights In A Riot

Welcome to what will hopefully be a light year of Black Friday carnage. If you’re staying out of the malls today and either observing the madness from afar like me or ignoring it altogether, good for you. But if you’re planning to take your chances out there, first of all I hope you make it …

Happy Civilised Saturday

So you’ve survived Black Friday, but your shopping is still not done. What to do? You could always buy things online like you should have done yesterday because it’s 2015 for Christ’s sake, or you could do whatever it is you do to work up your nerves and then head back out to the stores …

Black Friday Body Count: Companies Are Starting To Pander To Us, And That’s Ok

Here’s an article discussing the inevitable. Businesses taking advantage of anti-Black Friday sentiment. I’m fully aware that there are companies that are going to use the public’s growing distaste for the retail holiday and its creep into the real holiday of Thanksgiving as a gimmick to make them appear caring and humane so that we’ll …

Black Friday Body Count: Lol Target

I’m not sure if reporters Hadley Malcolm and Doug Stanglin have something against Target or what, but these are the only mentions of the place in their rather tame roundup of this year’s somewhat tame Black Friday happenings. In Vauxhall, N.J., the fog-shrouded parking lot outside a Target was a virtual ghost town just after …

Black Friday Body Count: How To Make Shopping Less Miserable Today, According To Google

This comes my way a little too late to be of much help this year, but if you’re the planning type, it could be good information to keep on hand for 2016. The people at Google crunched some data as the people at Google are fond of doing, and came up with some advice for …

Black Friday Body Count: A Video Of Videos

Black Friday Total Disaster, Chaos at Walmart A guy runs through some of the riot videos floating around this year and gives his thoughts. If you know anything about my thoughts, you pretty well know what his are going to be. As for the clips, we’ve got gems such as people breaking fences, kids having …

Black Friday Body Count: If We Don’t Get The TVs Now, We May Never Watch Anything Again

El Paso Walmart Black Friday Chaos I’m not sure how many Walmarts there are in El Paso, so this may come from the same place where that guy tried to fight the cops earlier. I don’t know if the problem is that these people don’t get out but once a year or that things are …