Black Friday Wrapup

There is NOTHING a store can do to get me to be at their doors at 4:00am. So, sorry JCPenney and Kohls. I first went to Wawa for coffee and got to Mom’s at 6:00am. Our first stop was Sears for their $99 TomTom GPS. For Mom, not me. I still use Google Maps because I don’t want a disembodied voice telling me where to go. (Too many REAL life voices telling me that. Bwah!)

The traffic was light and we ended up at Sears at 6:15. But the doors were closed and there were still lines wrapped around the store! Turns out their computers were all down and they couldn’t let customers in. D’oh! So we resorted to Plan B.

Which was Circuit City at East Gate. There, I picked up Season 2 of House for $14.99 (from $49.99) and Indiana Jones 4. Back in the car, circled Sears (still lines outside) and headed back to Cherry Hill Mall and Macys. Picked up stuff there. (Can’t be specific.) Then hustled to JCPenney’s and to our great surprise, there were still free snowglobes left! Back out to Modell’s, where we got more stuff, but not one of the things we went there for. Hm. Need another Modell’s, apparently. Then back through the mall, where I got to complain again about Cherry Hill Mall’s soulless Santa display. We exited Macy’s, in the car and across the street to the Silver Diner for breakfast.

Still with me? Good. After breakfast we hit Kohls, where the lines to check out were snaking around the entire store. Kohls used to be our first stop years ago, but the merchandise isn’t anything I couldn’t get anywhere else, and the “free gift card” restrictions tightened quite a bit. I gave our empty cart to a woman in line who had arms full of merchandise and we hightailed it across the street to Target.

I love Target. We got some necessities there (coffee, M&Ms, dog poop bags) and some not so necessites (Christmas tee, Kung Fu Panda DVD). I wonder if Sears is back online…let’s go see! There’s another Modell’s at East Gate anyway.

Back to Sears, doors are open! Yay! We meandered through the clothing aisle, then went down to electronics where they STILL had the $99 TomTom. Unfortunately for the sales reps, their computers were still down, so every credit card transaction had to be called in for authorization. It’s horrible to work in retail on Black Friday – that had to make it 100x worse! We went down one more level to look at snow throwers. For Mom, not me.

(tired…more tomorrow)

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