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A Different Kind of Black Friday Rant
Black Friday has been coming under attack these last few years as people are waking up to our obsession over mass consumerism. Strangely enough, the anger over buying more plastic items, at least on Instagram and the like, seems to be louder than the anger over people actually dying on Black Friday. There have been so many incidences that there’s an actual website called blackfridaydeathcount.com. Have there been hundreds of deaths? No. But, the fact that people are dying, at all, while shopping for sales is more than a little concerning, especially since a lot of the incidences resulted in people being shot. Who needs to bring a gun shopping?! #murica, I guess.
Anyways, completely other topic of discussion.
Black Friday isn’t as big in Canada as it is in the States. Sure, you can still find some good deals, but we wait until Boxing Day to go into our frenzy. I don’t even leave my house on Black Friday, but I risk the crowds on Boxing Day. It became exciting for me after working every single Boxing Day since I was a teenager until my mid-20s. That being said, there aren’t hordes of people just waiting to get inside, ready to trample anyone who is in their way (it’s just not the polite thing to do).
While people need to calm down about Black Friday, and you know, just try not to kill someone over a TV or tablet, some companies…
