Do You shop on Black Friday?

No! I think "Black Friday" is a sales gimmick. Besides I don't want to fight the crowd. Better sales happen the closer to Christmas as long as I don't wait until everything is picked over.

I would like to try one time.
I never didn't.

I agree with you. Walmart would be closed on Thanksgiving a few years ago. The employees would park across the street and walk to the back of the store. Management would let us in at 4am on Black Friday. The employees would hide behind the jewelry counter or the sandwich shop to watch the poor manager who had to open the front doors.People in front would get knocked down to the floor or smashed into the side of the door. One year they had 2 Policemen open the door and told people to walk in the store. 4 people got arrested because they jumped over the counters. A  policeman had to tackle 2 young men because  they were crawling over the line of carts and would not listen to the police.

One year the store had laptops on sale for $100. one young man had the last one in his arms and 2 men started to punch him to get his laptop.
Lucky the store police was right there to help the young man. Both the men were arrested.

I tried shopping on Black Friday once. Learned my lesson and will NEVER do it again.

I've gotten too old for that.

I managed to live on this earth for 60 years without ever even hearing of this ludicrous American practice. But this year shops in Britain have tried to introduce it. Are we to have NO native culture left unsullied by Americanisms? The traditional time for British shoppers to fight each other and be trampled to death is January - which now appears to begin on 26th December!

Shopping today? No. Just because I've been called nuts does not make me so.

No way!!

RAYB - I loved your rant followed by what followed it!