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Friday, November 26, 2010

Black Friday 2010: Wal-Mart

So actual Black Friday shopping started at Wal-Mart. Our Wal-Mart Superstore is normally open 24-hours so being there at midnight wasn't anything new actually. But the fact that the parking lot was overflowing was.

I stood around the DVDs bins while they were still covered with plastic. Got bunches of movies! The staff handling DVDs and Games were really strict about the 12:01 AM restriction. Apparently the other side of the store let people start grabbing stuff at 11:30 PM so we had a huge flood of people coming to the DVDs before they let us get them which kind of sucked.

After that my brother and I got into line for the $198 eMachine. They wouldn't give each of us a ticket (we're both older than 21 too and technically not the same household!) so I stood in line while my brother sent my mom over (she was checking out with the DVDs). We managed to be in the last group for tickets. It was fairly nice because after we stood there for another hour, they gave wrist bands at 2 AM so we could go off and eat/buy/etc. Apparently, if you didnt come from 5-6 AM then they'd sell extras at 6 AM.

There was a jerk in our line though. A man came by and he didn't have a ticket. A woman decided to give him her extra ticket. She handed it to a guy in between (she thought they were in the same party) to give it to him. But, he decided to take it. Even when they other guy asked for it he said "sorry man it's called sticky fingers" and called up his buddy to get in line with him. The poor guy even offered $20 for the ticket and the jerk still said no. So I kind of loudly told the woman what he had done and luckily another person had a ticket they weren't going to use so the guy who was supposed to get the ticket got it. Everyone in the end of the line heard what the jerk did and hopefully he felt guilt or embarrassed so it made me happier.

So 2 REALLY nice people and 1 REALLY jerky guy made for an interesting experience.

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So what did we get at Wal-Mart? (note: I didn't pay for any of this from Wal-Mart but I'm curious to see how much "we" spent this year)

DVDs @ $1.98
Bourne Identity ($9.00... crud gotta go back and see what's up)
Bourne Supremacy
Bourne Ultimatum
Sex in the City
PS I love you
Devil Wears Prada
Michael Clayton
Ice Age
Rendition
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
Letters to Iwo Jima
Justice League: Crisis of Two Worlds
Superman/Batman
Superman Doomsday
Batman Gotham Knight
Batman
Green Lantern
Blade Runner
27 Dresses
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
The Day After Tomorrow
Princess Bride
Jumper
Office Space
I Am Legend

DVDs @ $5.00
Leap Year
Gone with the Wind
Hangover
Wizard of Oz
Where the Wild Things Are
Twilight
Fast and Furious

Blu-ray @ $5.00
Night at the Museum
Batman Begins
Darknight

TV Sets @ $12.00
Supernatural Season 1
Supernatural Season 2

Other Stuff
Shark Steam Mop @ $36.00
Storage Box @ 2.80
Storage Box @ 2.80
Storage Box @ 2.80
Storage Box @ 4.65 (oh no price check?)
Storage Box @ 4.65 (oh no price check?)

Total $206.21

2 eMachines 15" each for $198 + tax/recycle fee = $231.33

Total $462.66

The Women $1.86
Kodak 14.1 MP Camera $59.00
Camera Case $10.00

Total $77.17

Grand Total for Wal-Mart: $746.04


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Black Friday Total: $825.01

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