As I watched the news, I watched them interviewing people standing in line as early as 12 hours before the opening of the doors, for the biggest sales day of the year! I wasn't quite committed to being that outrageous, but I was sitting at home, picking out sales, planning my attacks on any major retail store in a 10 mile radius. As midnight approached, I became anxious, wondering... are they still gonna have that movie I want, or the T.V. for my grandma... I was getting sucked into the glitz and glamour marketing advisors put into this day.
As I walked through the doors of Target, I felt a sudden rush of adrenalin. I could feel the energy, I could feel the pandaemonium, it was crazy and I LOVED every second of it! It was then, that I understood. All the marketing, all the advertising, luring the customers to walk through the doors... wasn't about the sales, or getting the best deals. It was about the feeling the customer gets when experiencing the rush.
Shopping for some people is like a drug, always looking for the next fix. It's addicting, and easy to fall into the trap. For me, I don't think I'm going down that path quite yet... but the feeling was undeniably thrilling, yet frightening.
I definitely understand that feeling of adrenaline. It's almost like a track meet or a basketball game or any other type of competitive sport. When you are shopping on black Friday, you don't even know what to buy half of the time. All you know is that you have to go go go even if you don't know what it is you are going for.
ReplyDeleteFor years my mom and grandma have went out on Black Friday to find the best deals. They spend Thanksgiving evening planning out their attacks, and for most people they just go without a plan. I think from my experience this year that if you don't have a plan that you might not get the items that will be sold out first in all of the stores and miss out on the things that you might get somewhere else either cheaper or at a more of a convenience
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