Marin Hummel
Staff Writer
The day after Thanksgiving, known as ‘Black Friday,’ is the biggest shopping day of the year.
Stores have some of their biggest sales the weekend after Thanksgiving in order to get shoppers to come in and shop in preparation for the holidays.
It is a well-known fact that if you receive a discount on a product you will most likely buy it and will probably buy more of the product than you would have if it had been regularly priced.
Victoria’s Secret in Montclair Plaza typically makes around $10,000 in a day. On Black Friday this year the store made around $98,000.
The Montclair Victoria’s Secret had 86 people scheduled to work 8-hour shifts and had somewhere from 30 to 60 employees assisting on the floor at a time.
“This was my third year working at Victoria’s Secret on Black Friday,” Jessica Vergara, a junior movement and sports science major, said. “This year wasn’t as busy as years past but people were still banging on the doors at the store’s opening.”
There have been commercials on for weeks advertising Black Friday sales starting bright and early.
Stores opened as early as 4 a.m. allowing shoppers to get a head start on the day.
Some malls even opened at midnight Thanksgiving night to let shoppers have more time to shop.
People rushed to the stores early Friday morning to take advantage of all the sales and get started on their holiday shopping.
With all the stores already prepared for Christmas, it seems as though shoppers have to get a head start on all of their holiday shopping as well.
“I went with my friends to get some ideas for holiday gifts,” said John Lejay, a sophomore art and communications major. “I found the lines went really fast at the Brea mall but the parking was horrible. You couldn’t find a parking spot anywhere.”
Lejay was able to take advantage of the sales though. He bought an 8.0 mega-pixel camera for only $86.
With all of the people that crowd the malls this weekend, it is a surprise that anyone would want to fight through all of them to find a bargain.
It might not make sense why people would waste their time and energy trying to fight the crowds and all the lines but plenty of people do.
“My family decided that it sounded like fun to go out on Black Friday since we have never done it before, but it was a nightmare,” Wilson Hawkins a senior business major said. “We just went to the local stores in the area and there were so many people there. The stores were a absolute disaster and the checkout lines were outrageous.”
It seems as though you have a better chance of getting black and blue bruises from Black Friday than you do getting all your holiday gifts.
Marin Hummel can be reached at mhummel@ulv.edu. |
