Looting at Tesco

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Maybe not as bad as the title says, but when a store has to be closed after 30 minutes, due to the selfish and dangerous actions of 'shoppers', (ha,ha)..What is it coming to?..Crowd control and hospital admissions required to sort it out..I have my own views on this kind of thing, but are probably best kept off the forum..All in all, disgusting and disgraceful behaviour.
 
A television has fell onto a woman

But no "looting" has been reported

People are trying to get items cheaper - it's been going on for decades
 
Liverpoolphil said:
A television has fell onto a woman

But no "looting" has been reported

People are trying to get items cheaper - it's been going on for decades
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I will reply to you once because you come across as a pompous clown:
Post said not as 'bad as a title suggests'...So stop picking the bones out of it.
Also television did not just fall on someone's head, It was caused by the selfish behaviour of idiots..
If you are ok with this kind of thing fair enough, those attitudes are all that is wrong with this country.Happy shopping.
 
Rumpokid said:
I will reply to you once because you come across as a pompous clown:
Post said not as 'bad as a title suggests'...So stop picking the bones out of it.
Also television did not just fall on someone's head, It was caused by the selfish behaviour of idiots..
If you are ok with this kind of thing fair enough, those attitudes are all that is wrong with this country.Happy shopping.
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The title is false - simple as that

And that attitude has been around in the country for decades

Only have to read on here people looking for bargains

Companies are trying to maximise profits so whilst prices increase wages don't so people have to search for bargains and this is what happens - sales and people rushing to pick up bargains

Throwing insults at me doesn't change that
 
Really don't get this black Friday.
a) We're not Americans (and that's where it started and should have stayed there)
b) Its shops selling stuff you didn't want to buy all year but will now because it has money off
c) They are only emptying stock to replace it with stuff for Christmas you don't need but will buy anyway
d) Now it's started in a really big way in the UK it's here to stay and will only get worse
e) How sad that people have to resort to this behaviour to try and by a consumerable. No different really to some new year sales though and we've seen the same sort of frenzy there
 
the tv,s they are fighting over are old stock the shops are pleased to shift gets a lot of publicity and people in, but sad how some people just cant behave.
 
pbrown7582 said:
the tv,s they are fighting over are old stock the shops are pleased to shift gets a lot of publicity and people in, but sad how some people just cant behave.
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That's society as whole these days

People don't respect other people or property

When they had those riots a couple years back - that was mainly people wanting stuff for free and feeling they are entitled to it because someone else has it

If you want something in life get out and earn it instead of expecting it to be given
 
There are some bargains to be had, Amazon has some pretty good ones. I got a Garmin G6 approach for 115 delivered, let me know if you can find it cheaper elsewhere and I ll send mine back!
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Really don't get this black Friday.
a) We're not Americans (and that's where it started and should have stayed there)
b) Its shops selling stuff you didn't want to buy all year but will now because it has money off
c) They are only emptying stock to replace it with stuff for Christmas you don't need but will buy anyway
d) Now it's started in a really big way in the UK it's here to stay and will only get worse
e) How sad that people have to resort to this behaviour to try and by a consumerable. No different really to some new year sales though and we've seen the same sort of frenzy there
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It is ridiculous how people are behaving. Black Friday seems to just encouraging people to be loons and idiots. (And that's being polite!)
 
It ties in with the thanksgiving thread, but I don't remember black friday before. Have I been living under a rock, is it just this year?:o

it doesn't surprise me how people behave especially when shopping, just avoid it:thup:
 
I think it's hilarious that people are fighting over Blaupunkt and Polaroid TV's. Mr Tesco will be laughing himself to sleep tonight when he sees that the backlog of **** tele's they've been stockpiling have sold.
 
therod said:
It ties in with the thanksgiving thread, but I don't remember black friday before. Have I been living under a rock, is it just this year?:o

it doesn't surprise me how people behave especially when shopping, just avoid it:thup:
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No it has been the past few years, US based stores started it, the likes of Asda (WalMart) were probably the first to bring it in a big way. remember seeing the news and an Asda store in Manchester ended up with a fist fight over a TV if i remember correctly...
 
Rooter said:
No it has been the past few years, US based stores started it, the likes of Asda (WalMart) were probably the first to bring it in a big way. remember seeing the news and an Asda store in Manchester ended up with a fist fight over a TV if i remember correctly...
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Oh that's why, we don't shop at asda;)
 
Amazon have been doing this for a while as well. Mainly US companies stated this with some high street shops picking up on it last year and now everybody has to have a Black Friday sale it seems. Not something that appeals to me as, if for no other reason, I am at work on a Friday and one day sales where you have to be there or be online to get them are just not possible.

Cannot believe that at midnight people were 'queuing' to get on web sites like Currys.

The companies love the media attention, it brings about a shopping frenzy and they cash in and clear out old stock. That said, it really is no different to how Boxing Day used to be.
 
therod said:
Oh that's why, we don't shop at asda;)
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One does not either, One saw some northern chaps on the television last year having fisticuffs. One has heard that there are even less expensive places to shop now. Lucky for one that the Fortnum and Mason black friday sale is private invite only.
 
Whole thing is pretty sad really, some of the pictures in the media coming from it are just plain embarrassing.

Most of the offers I have seen are no more than a few percentage lower than the normal price for items that are coming to the end of their life with newer models released.

As mentioned people buying things they did not want or need two weeks ago but now they are willing to jump on a TV / push someone out of the way to get.

Very clever marketing from the retailers though.
 
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