{"id":6118,"date":"2008-12-15T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/12\/some-insight-into-the-black-fr.html"},"modified":"2008-12-15T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T10:59:09","slug":"some-insight-into-the-black-fr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/12\/some-insight-into-the-black-fr.html","title":{"rendered":"Some insight into the Black Friday crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-na-trample6-2008dec06,0,3938897.story?track=ntothtml\">Here&#8217;s an excellent article on what it was like to be in the crowd the day the Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death<\/a>. It reinforces my decision never to go to a Black Friday sale to save a few bucks on a blender.<br \/>\nBTW, I was able to buy one of the Wal-Mart Black Friday sale items on Monday. I was at Wal-Mart to buy sunglasses and while I was there I figured I&#8217;d check out how much the Garmin n\u00fcvi 200 was now that the sale was over (I was thinking of getting my husband one for Christmas). I noticed they had a big stack of them unmarked so I asked the sales clerk how much they were and he talk me they were $99, the Black Friday price. Evidently they didn&#8217;t sell them all and I didn&#8217;t have to wait in line in the cold at 3:00 a.m. to get a good price \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an excellent article on what it was like to be in the crowd the day the Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death. It reinforces my decision never to go to a Black Friday sale to save a few bucks on a blender. 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