Seriously?!
This morning I woke up and looked at the BBC news
headlines as I often do to find the following headline “Violence mars US retail
bonanza”! Now, for those that don’t know, which was me up to a year ago as
well, Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving when all retail stores open
their store hours earlier than usual (some even at midnight) with amazing
discounts thus beginning the holiday shopping craze…
I avoided it by staying home, my wallet has been
hit hard enough as it is with the move, it did not need any more unnecessary
temptations! However, for some people, the financial crisis has really brought
out their inner rage in bargain hunting:
According to the BBC “The start of the US holiday shopping
season was marred by shootings and pepper-sprayings as bargain-hunters
stampeded stores”. Stampeded, seriously!? One of the incidents involved a
woman who pepper-sprayed fellow shoppers that were trying to get their hands on
new Xbox 360s… that just gives a whole new meaning to crazy. Another incident
involved a man being shot because he didn’t want to hand over his purchases to
a robber that was waiting for shoppers outside a Walmart in California!
Coincidentally, both incidents occurred at a Walmart…bad rap for them I’m
afraid… or maybe just a bad rap for shopping!
How about
this Christmas we go back to basics with gift-giving! My mom nowadays, for
example, is only interested in three kinds of gifts: beauty products, food
products or charity gifts…all three of which can be consumed without filling up
the house with more unnecessary rubbish that we don’t need! How about
making your own gift or Secret Santa with a limit on spending…this crisis has
hit everybody hard, there’s no need to bring further violence into it just
because your son must have the new Xbox 360, people!
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