Black Friday Not For Everyone

Alabama Foley  News 5's Pat Peterson discovers Black Friday is for "the birds"
by Pat Peterson
Published: Fri, November 27, 2009 - 5:36 pm CST Last Updated: Fri, November 27, 2009 - 5:48 pm CST
FOLEY, Alabama -
The Tanger Outlet Mall opened at midnight for the Black Friday shopping frenzy!


"They were waiting at the door to get in and the first two hours there were actually lines three hours all the way to the back of the store," says Nike Outlet manager Tom Sweeting.


"We expect more than 125-thousand people through here this weekend so that's more than we had last year," says Tanger General Manager Jackie Sewell.


This young shopper had a productive day. Julian Claire was able to give Santa her wish list and buy a few Christmas presents.


"Black Friday, there's a lot of shoppers here and it's pretty cool that you get a bunch of discounts at a bunch of stores here," says Julian.


But as the day wore on, all the sale signs, shopping bags and bargain hunters got to be a little too much for some people, including myself. I was ready to take a break and I found a fellow Black Friday hater to spend a little time with.


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Reports indicate sales were pretty flat only improving by a 0.5% increase over last year.

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Calling people “retarted” when they’re not even retarded speaks volumes on its own.

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Well, FOX, I expect it from the people who post on here, because I don’t expect them to have the same literary integrity of a reporter. However, Pat emailed and apologized to me, insisting he meant the figure of speech.

I’m not sure how black Friday shopping is “trivial; worthless; only of interest to gullible people,” since it helps stimulate our economy and helps local businesses make a large portion of their yearly sales.

Because its definition only seems to fit if he’s using “bird” to describe the women he was stereotyping, I felt that it was being used in an offensive manner.

Now I think he just didn’t have a complete grasp on the meaning of the phrase before he used it.

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KxV said
Calling women “birds” is highly offensive.

Sorry, Toots!

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Oops, wrong thread.  LOL

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If a guy can make a BILLION dollars playing golf, shouldn’t he be allowed to put around a little?  rolleyes

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originally i thought it was the breakfast drink for astronauts

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Tanks for the answer.  I thought it was an outlet store for second hand fruit, like tanger-ines.

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a tanger? its on e of those wire things you tang your clothes on

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i think its adding more icing and filling to a breakfast tart

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