Do you believe in the concept “too much of a good thing?”
If so, you may have noticed these past two years that the hullaballoo surrounding Black Friday is beginning to subside.
I certainly did last night.
In making the rounds in Lawrence, I hit three of the top chains here – Michael’s, Best Buy and Target – that opened opened early on Thanksgiving Day.
A little background…
Three holidays back I took my daughters to the Target on Metcalf in Mission on Thanksgiving night.
There were gigantic lines – three or more deep – encircling Target’s entire, huge parking lot. At the appointed time people were allowed to go in – in a somewhat orderly manner – and were funneled into a fairly complicated store layout designed to handle the ridiculous crowd flow. Needless to say, the checkout lines were daunting.
From there we proceeded to Oak Park Mall which had advertised it too would be open Thanksgiving night. And an erie sight it was.
Probably only a third of the stores had agreed to open and with the other two third’s lights not on it created a ghostly look – almost as if we’d broken into a closed mall. Most of the workers were unhappy seeming and for us it was kind of a, “Now why did we come here, again?” sort of experience. Continue reading
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