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Someone’s going bankrupt Friday—either you, because you scraped the bottom of your bank account taking advantage of sharply reduced prices, or the nation’s retail stores, because their discounts couldn’t reverse months of slumping sales.
Whatever happens in the final accounting, the crowds out shopping Friday in Manhattan were horrendous.
Many stores opened at 5 a.m. to hordes of bargain-hungry shoppers pouncing on deals like Butler Library pigeons on bagel scraps, and the flagship Macy’s in Herald Square was no exception.
Photos and more after the jump.
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An aisle at Macy’s solidly blocked by Black Friday shoppers |
Bwog spent more than three hours wading through the sea of people flooding the famous department store’s nine retail floors. Based on the variety of accents overheard, many customers seemed to be European tourists taking advantage of the weak dollar, but most were simply testy New Yorkers. Wait-times at registers could be upward of half an hour while Bwog counted more than 100 shoppers in a line for the men’s bathroom.
The deals—the reason for the season—were uneven at best. Some “doorbuster” items were true steals, but many supposedly marked-down items were not much cheaper than what Bwog has found online in the past. (And that, of course, presumes you could find the item in your size: everyone in New York wears either medium or small, it seems.)
If you didn’t get out to your local mall Friday or couldn’t find what you wanted, you have the start of next week to look forward to. “Cyber Monday,” the first business day following Black Friday, starts the holiday shopping season online with a few sales and much hoopla. Bwog recommends you check out the forums at FatWallet.com and SlickDeals.net over the weekend to see what good deals other Web shoppers are finding.
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The crowded elevators were almost as unpleasant as those at Lerner |
—JYH
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@when did Black Friday ever refer to a stock market crash? fail.
@JYH Check September 24, 1869.
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blackfriday.asp?viewed=1
@EAL Second picture above: I didn’t know Morpheus shops at Macy’s.
@blah is there even anything in walmart worth participating in a stampede for?
@lee bollinger is the man
@HAHA! as a girlfriend, this is the state of my boyfriend’s room 24/7.
@as a boyfriend this is the state of my girlfriend’s room 24/7
@Anonymous Having worked in a clothing store in high school, the third picture makes me CRINGE
@haha As a generally clean person, the third picture makes me cringe as well.
@lolz as a college student, the third picture reminds me of my room.
@prezbo caption contest? please?
@cc10 look above. bollinger is baller
@prezbo is playin the game. i’d hit it.
@you'd hit it? Really? You’d hit Queen Rania of Jordan? See I was wondering if she’d qualify, given your long history of banging Cleopatra, Megan Fox, etc.
@cc10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Queen_Rania_of_Jordan.jpg
@Bollinger? No way! I just met her.
@What do you need if you’re buying a musical instrument today?
A Chopin Liszt!
@Ray I don’t know why Europeans would shop at Macy’s. Macy’s clothing is usually too large for the slim European body.
@so true only HUGE guys like me can shop there
@urgh The Apple store had a ridiculous crowd starting at midnight (my hard drive chose an unfortunate time to crash). It was insane and didn’t clear out till around 3 AM…I’m sure it was just as busy again at 5 AM.
@... at least this didnt happen:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,458744,00.html
@mmmm mmmmm…greed
@long islander Ho-lee shit. How did nobody react to the link that person posted? So sick, I can’t believe long island shoppers would legit kill a guy to get to their shopping.
okay, maybe not so far out of the realm of possibility. i, for one, fled back to campus friday morning to avoid the douchebag bonanza that occurs there. sigh, so fucked up.