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To Shop or Not to Shop!

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For the second year in a row, I have not risen to join the crowds in this Black Friday frenzy. The day has lost much of its joy, and if I venture out at all today, it will be later this evening when the masses have returned home with their 1/2 off bargains.

I remember this being a day I always went shopping with my mom. Then, as an adult, I always shopped with girlfriends. When I had my daughter, I took her with me. Now that she's almost 12, she doesn't want to go - so I don't force her. The point is this was the day when women left their husbands, boyfriends, brothers and fathers home, watching college football, while they shopped to their hearts content. It was an act of nurturing; getting an early start on the family's Christmas presents.

Were there minor scuffles over a Macy's display with limited cashmere sweaters? Maybe, but I don't recall ever hearing of women shooting each other, stabbing each other or trampling over each other to buy trinkets to stuff their children's stockings.

My brother says it's the breakdown of society, and he wasn't too keen when I blamed most of the mayhem on the fact that men have now gotten in on the action.

No longer is it a day of women shopping, taking a break to eat lunch or see a movie. That thought seems straight out of the 70s! No, today's shopper is just as likely to be male...also, today's shoppers are shopping for themselves just as much, if not more, than for others. And retailers have realized who their new demographic is. This is evident as electronics are one of the most popular items on sale today.

News items and ads this week:

  • WALMART: 32" Emerson Flatscreen TV for $238.00
  • The majority of people camped out on the Best Buy sidewalk since Wednesday morning are men. Either men by themselves, or "family men", who have their wives cooking Thanksgiving dinners on hotplates or other relatives bringing them food.
Thanksgiving dinner is now being served on aisle 5!

In the past several years, late news headlines show us violent scenes from these stores...the frenzy to get a deal on a television or the newest video game has overtaken the care and concern for human life. People today won't only refuse to  make eye contact with each other, but will not give a thought to shoving past each other to get what they want.

Am I wrong to blame men? Is my brother right, that it's society as a whole? Are the women out there today just as beligerent as the men? All I know is I don't want to be in the middle of some cockfight over who's going to get the Zhu Zhu hamsters.

You let me know...if you go out today, post a comment and tell me what you saw.


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