Hello everyone. I work at a Wal-Mart store in Tennessee, and this will be my first year working during black friday. First of all our Wal-Mart has 2 doors NOT 1!Quoted from the article... "Since Wal-Mart stores only have one entrance, making crowd control more difficult, workers will be stationed at the front of the store directing customers to the appropriate places." Secondly,we are all taking appropriate measures for the black friday holiday. We did have talk about not doing anything for black friday but it would disappoint our customers too much so we found a nice way around it. WalMart stores in our area have even been having little mini sales on certain merchandise ahead of time to lower the crowds a bit!
Last year my local Walmart store didn't close at all on Thanksgiving. It stayed open all night long and let people drift in and out all night long. Between midnight and 3:00 a.m. workers rolled out covered pallets of the major sale items into the main aisles of the store. You had to read the pallets/boxes to figure out what was in them (the products weren't necessarily placed in their respective departments), and then stand near "your" pallet until workers cut the covers off of the pallets at 5:00 a.m. It didn't actually even get really crowded at my store until about a quarter til 5 and it was mayhem for about 5 minutes when the covers came off the pallets but overall, other than the place being packed and it being hard to get from one end of the store to another, it really wasn't a bad experience. I even only waited in line for about an hour to pay!
They should offer Black Friday sales for online shoppers too. That would help greatly with crowd control. Their servers may freeze up cause internet delay and/or bring down their site, but that's not too deadly :).
Other, responsible stores don't have a problem. They simply go out to the line, a bit before opening, and hand out numbers to the first N people, entitling them to the special deal. No pushing, no crushing, because you don't need to with your number.
Its about time that Wal-Mart is worried about the employees who work for them and shoppers safety. God Bless Wal-mart. Now if just stop selling so many products from foreign countries! Put the USA back to work Wal-mart could be a winner !
How about they just do away with Black Friday? It's nothing but a publicity stunt to get customers in the store. If one really looked at the "sale" prices, you would see that they are not really sale prices at all. Just another way of advertising the same old prices.
Idiots!
Are you dumb? Clearly you're not a Black Friday shopper. The deals ARE better. Of course they are trying to get you in the store....that's why they have doorbusters. Exceptionally good deals on certain items. Now, I won't say a lot of OTHER things aren't overpriced and marked up just about anywhere. But if you're a true BF shopper, you do your homework so you get the doorbusters and DON'T get screwed on the other ****.
"Since Wal-Mart stores only have one entrance, making crowd control more difficult, workers will be stationed at the front of the store directing customers to the appropriate places."
Ummm...All the Walmarts where I live have more than one entrance. Maybe this store needs a remodel.
what percentage of goods sold at walmart are made in the USA? I heard < 5%.... how sad. When I hear that we 'crave' chinese products, what else are we to buy?
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Secondly,we are all taking appropriate measures for the black friday holiday. We did have talk about not doing anything for black friday but it would disappoint our customers too much so we found a nice way around it. WalMart stores in our area have even been having little mini sales on certain merchandise ahead of time to lower the crowds a bit!
God Bless Wal-mart.
Now if just stop selling so many products from foreign countries! Put the USA back to work Wal-mart could be a winner !
Idiots!
Ummm...All the Walmarts where I live have more than one entrance. Maybe this store needs a remodel.