Photo: Scott Shaw/The Plain Dealer/AP
“Black Friday – When people trample others for cheap products mere hours after being thankful for what they already have.”
So goes the popular meme making the rounds on the Web this time of the year.
Black Friday is the proverbial train wreck. I’m mostly inclined against it, since holiday season isn’t about consumerism, but I don’t pretend to be outside it. I will walk the streets of Seattle with a cup of coffee in hand today, not shopping, just observing. I guess I’m more mystified by its proliferation and hype. Ugh. I don’t want to look, but somehow I can’t help but sneak-a-peek from behind my hand. The crowd-psychology of it, the mass-media manipulation, the down-right savage nature of hardcore consumerism is, in a word, weird. While I don’t completely understand it, there are some interesting photos floating around that give a snapshot of Black Friday in America. I’ll highlight them here without an abundance of adjacent analysis. They just “are”. Below: present and past.
From Digital Trends Story, "How to Win Black Friday," By Micah Abrams
I’ve always thought this to be a truly odd day in America. I’m going back to my turkey leftovers and peace and quiet now. Enjoy your day off wherever you are and whatever you’re doing.
Photo: Joseph Kaczmarek
Photo :Charlie Reidel/AP
Photo: Tony Dejak
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Crazy!!!
I live in Germany, I could never imagine anything like that happening here.
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Background: when I took the photo the man had been camping five days and it was still three days until he would get in for his stuff. It was his tenth year doing this.
Amazing. Think about the money the guy could’ve made if he’d just flipped burgers at McD during those days, I bet that would negate the savings he’s craving. And no I’m not talking down, I have in fact flipped burgers myself for a couple of years when I was younger 🙂