Black Friday Nov 2006

I was asked by one of the deaf bloggers if we heard about the Black Friday. He said according to the Wikipedia,
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the holiday season. Most retailers will open very early and usually provide massive discounts on their products.

Although Black Friday is typically the busiest shopping day of the year in terms of customer traffic, it is not typically the day with the sales volume. That is usually either Christmas Eve, the last Saturday before Christmas.

I gave my comment;

Yeah, I know what the Black Friday is. Its interesting to watch some people fighting over some stuff they wanted, like the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" toy action figures in around 1989 when my 2 boys were little. I had seen some empty shelves at the store just 15 minutes after the doors were open. The video games at discount prices were also popular.
In 1999 I noticed the Target ad on Thanksgiving Day saying that they were giving away the free regular "Hot Wheels" die cast toy cars to first 1000 people. I was a collector at that time. When I went there at 5:00 A.M. the next day expecting to see a long line of people outside the store, but it was much longer (not compared to some recent Sony Playstion 3 longest lines) so instead I went to another store that opened an hour earlier to find out some electronic stuff I wanted had been sold out. I returned to Target afterward there was the last half of the line of people outside and I went ahead to get into the line. I ended up receiving an unusual "Hot Wheels" neon red Mustang Mach that was later valued at $35.00 according to a 2004 Hot Wheels Price Guide book. Some guys who saw it asked me if I wanted to trade it and I said no, thanks. They looked disappointed. I still have it in a blister pack.

We would go to any store like Best Buy, Target, or Circuit City at 5:00 A.M. on Black Friday and watch the people in a long line rush into the store when it opens like the horses with riders race down the hill called "Stampede & Suicide Race" that occurs annually in Washington state.