Well, I'm at Best Buy standing in line at 6:10am (the correct line, according to the Best Buy employee) to purchase videophones and a DVD recorder. There are separate lines for each product, with larger $ purchases having smaller lines, and one large mass frenzy up front. I'm still in line, and it's 6:28, 6:38, 6:48, 6:58...This is the first time I've gotten up this early to shop after Thanksgiving, and it may be the last. Well it was slow, but at least they had all the advertised items. I'm outta here! It's 7:08am, and I must now journey onward to Circuit City for a great deal on memory stick media and JVC digital tapes...Circuit City seems almost as crowded as Best Buy, but the lines are much shorter here. I got in line at 7:20am, and I'm exiting the store at 7:35am. Now I'm making a quick stop at Staples, then MacDonald's, then Home Depot, and finally Home Zottoli!
(I wish I remembered the audio blog phone number, as it would have been fun to call this in)
2 comments:
Do you know people who have a videophone too?
Hello Mike's Blog :)
Just imagine the hypotheses that one could test at future After-Thanksgiving Day sales.... Some that could be, uh, fun include "testing" for responses to a "linebreaker" at lines -- comparing responses to linebreaking across stores, and across sites (e.g., airports and theme parks). Uh, more dissertations could be written comparing the response to linebreakers across regions in the US, or across states where concealed weapons are (and are not) permitted.
With these kind of baseline studies completed, it might be best to contrast linebreaker responses with pre-boarding activity at Greyhound stations (where, often at least, no one is a linebreaker because everyone is a linebreaker).
Happy new year,
Kevin
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