Whether you're an audacious consumerist, anti-shopping, or a retail worker full of dread, these memes will entertain anyone with strong feelings about Black Friday. Hopefully this year the ground zeros of Walmart will be a bit more low-key due to the global pandemic, but we can't underestimate the consumerist thirst for deals. No one ever got hurt looking at some memes from the safety of their home. Just saying.
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Black Friday has never been known to be a civilized event. It seems every year we hear of stampedes, physical violence and general mayhem - all because people want to take advantage of some insane deals. Now, thanks to this handy guide from College Humor, you have more of a chance to make it out of the mall alive.
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Retail workers have undoubtedly been one of the most under-appreciated class of workers since the dawn of mass consumerism. Being polite and helpful to rude customers all day for a wage that barely covers living expenses is soul-sucking enough when there isn't a series of commercial holidays intersecting with a global pandemic. Since the dreaded Black Friday is upon us, we thought we'd share a handful of retail horror stories from the subreddit r/TalesFromRetail for all the brave wage warriors out there. You're not alone and we feel for you.
You just know that complete and utter insanity overtook the store right after this speech.
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Sure there's excitement in watching a soccer mom and a grandmother duke it out for the last Playstation but the danger of Black Friday crowds can get a little too real. Why bother getting trampled when you can shop on the internet on Cyber Monday anyway? If you feel like you're missing out on the bloodshed and overcrowded big box stores, just read these web comics instead for that familiar retail 'purge' sensation.
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It's that time of year again when Black Friday, the American celebration of great deals, is about to come busting down your door at four in the morning in the name of saving $5.64 on a Blu-Ray player. It's a tough time to navigate, but if you take the time to educate yourself with this list you'll be saying, "Move over Grandma, that's MY X-Box!", before you know it!
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If you're the kind of person who impulse buys a good deal on Black Friday without really seeing what you're getting, you may have just bought a whole lot of nothing from Cards Against Humanity. Then again, you were probably also one of the more than 30,000 people who bought actual poop from them last Black Friday.
Cards Against Humanity, the troll kings of Black Friday, are offering a special $5 deal on absolutely nothing! As in, you give them five dollars and get nothing back. Apparently they've also closed real sales of their product today, which has at least one former-fan pretty furious:
Something tells me that if this stunt was enough to turn this guy off of CAH, he probably wouldn't have enjoyed the game to begin with.
