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How does Wal-Mart work Black Friday?


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I have never went to one before, I may want the tv though? how exactly does it work assuming my store opens at 6am?? Do people camp out? Is it just a mad dash into the store??

 

Well, where I live there are no tickets and no lines,when the air horn is blown everybody rushes and grabs what they want (this goes for the smaller items and toys). For some of the really expensive stuff you get a ticket (laptop,cpu,etc...),but you have to be in line by midnight.

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It depends on the store. I think every store is different. and even the same walmart seems to do it a little different every yr. I think they try to improve on the system every year, even though some years I swear the tried to make it worse. ours has pallets scattered around in black plastic so you dont know what you are standing by, and the stuff isnt even in the right dept (toys arent in the toy dept always). and big thing s there has been a line the last several years, and some things you have to find the person holding tickets to hand out. Truly a scavenger hunt
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I think it is just to dangerous for the mad dash run as fast as you can. Thank goodness I am always at my moms in Pensacola. It's a super walmart and you get to go in and stand by what you want. You just can't put it in the buggy till 5:00. I went once on a mad dash at a store. I got knocked down and litterally steped on by three people before someone stoped the traffic! NEVER AGAIN for me.
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We have a super Walmart so we can go in early and hang out by what we want.

 

I couldn't imagine waiting outside for an airhorn to blow and then make a mad dash inside the store.

 

That was a Super Walmart!! But once the horn blows, it becomes a super sized sardine can.

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This is our first year with a Super Walmart, last year we got to our regular Walmart around 2:30 and were about the 100th in line...oh ya, it was about 2 degrees outside too :P I have NO idea whatsoever how it will work this year with the Super Walmart, and calling hasn't helped at all either :(
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I work for a Supercenter in Missouri, and how the Supercenters do it, is between 4-5 a.m the pallets of BF merchandise are pulled out to the sales floor, wrapped in black plastic wrap, and placed in different areas. Like it was stated above, the items are not always placed in their departments. At 5 a.m the plastic is cut off, and customers are then allowed to purchase the BF merchandise at the BF price.
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