Yes pretty much it is chaos. I went last year and arrived at 5am also and there were a few hundred people there. This is one of the smaller stores and when the doors opened, you can just imagine. I went to get the 25" tv and there were 3 lines of chaos but i got my tv thanks to customers telling employees people were cutting in line. The worst part was trying to figure out where the line to pay was. There was supposedly some employee standing at the end of the line with some balloons. It took 20 minutes to find him. This is of course after I had to have an employee pull my shopping cart from the front because i couldnt get it through the aisles. Luckily I did come away with everything I wanted and made a nice exit across the street to Staples. And of course I plan on going to Fry's again this time around too, lol.