We went to Walmart on Thanksgiving evening with no real expectations. We didn't even bother showing up until around 6:45 because we weren't interested in any of the big ticket early bird items. It was crowded, but not too chaotic. The stores itself was a mess from being rearranged so much to accompany everything that was going on. I second that not a single employee that we asked a question to knew the answer. I honestly don't even know why they were there because every time I asked a question I received a "I don't know, let me go ask" response. I was mostly asking questions to see if they knew the answers. We discovered tons of "sold out" items hiding in the clothing department, which is where the checkouts were being funneled through and I guess people were discarding stuff as they talked themselves out of it. So we almost had more fun digging through the discards than actually shopping. IT was pretty fun though - since we were mostly there to people watch and buy whatever we could we didn't have an issues.