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Who are these people, you know the one’s, the crazed shoppers trying to grocery shop the day before Thanksgiving. They then fuel up on the holiday meal and get up at 4:00am on black friday and totally lose their mind,morality and driving skills to hit the stores.

My home turf is typically pretty mellow but not this time of year. I live a stones throw away from a large shopping mall and about 8 strip shopping complexes. To make matters even crazier I live on the border with Massachusetts and they come here to shop because NH has no sales tax.

Its like a starting pistol goes off each year the day before Thanksgiving. From now until the week after Christmas I’m under sedge. Normally I can leave my home coffee in hand and leisurely head to the market, bakery and seafood market and make it back home before the coffee gets cold. This time of year a badly timed trip can land me in traffic for thirty minutes per mile surround by wide eyed crazy people with out of state tags ( Massachusetts).

We have a nickname for our neighboring crazies “Massholes", it fits them well to be sure. I don’t get their logic flooding the border stores to save 6.25% on a purchase. They went thru that savings driving here and then sitting in traffic with fuel costs and not to mention making my life hell.

I sure hope others don’t have do deal with people like this, If so, tell me about it, I may feel better about this hellish situation.
 
Most stores open Thursday afternoon for Black Friday deals now. They used to only open super early in the morning on Fridays.
 
Who are these people, you know the one’s, the crazed shoppers trying to grocery shop the day before Thanksgiving. They then fuel up on the holiday meal and get up at 4:00am on black friday and totally lose their mind,morality and driving skills to hit the stores.

My home turf is typically pretty mellow but not this time of year. I live a stones throw away from a large shopping mall and about 8 strip shopping complexes. To make matters even crazier I live on the border with Massachusetts and they come here to shop because NH has no sales tax.

Its like a starting pistol goes off each year the day before Thanksgiving. From now until the week after Christmas I’m under sedge. Normally I can leave my home coffee in hand and leisurely head to the market, bakery and seafood market and make it back home before the coffee gets cold. This time of year a badly timed trip can land me in traffic for thirty minutes per mile surround by wide eyed crazy people with out of state tags ( Massachusetts).

We have a nickname for our neighboring crazies “Massholes", it fits them well to be sure. I don’t get their logic flooding the border stores to save 6.25% on a purchase. They went thru that savings driving here and then sitting in traffic with fuel costs and not to mention making my life hell.

I sure hope others don’t have do deal with people like this, If so, tell me about it, I may feel better about this hellish situation.

They're probably the same ones who wait in line to mail their tax returns at 11:59 on April 15th.

When they were in college, if they went that far, they were the ones frantically writing that term paper due tomorrow.

and they never passed math. If they did, they could figure out that driving to another state to save 6.25% wasn't worth it, particularly since the store down the street was having a 10% off sale.

Here we have "we pay the tax" sales. It sounds a lot better than an 8.5% off sale. Yes, this is Taxifornia, where 6.25% would be a great tax break.
 
Most stores open Thursday afternoon for Black Friday deals now. They used to only open super early in the morning on Fridays.



So the extra crazy people wolf down the Turkey and go shopping?
 
So the extra crazy people wolf down the Turkey and go shopping?

I wouldn't call them extra crazy. The ones who camp out are extra crazy.
 
They're probably the same ones who wait in line to mail their tax returns at 11:59 on April 15th.

When they were in college, if they went that far, they were the ones frantically writing that term paper due tomorrow.

and they never passed math. If they did, they could figure out that driving to another state to save 6.25% wasn't worth it, particularly since the store down the street was having a 10% off sale.

Here we have "we pay the tax" sales. It sounds a lot better than an 8.5% off sale. Yes, this is Taxifornia, where 6.25% would be a great tax break.


No, there is no logic, never mind math skills with the border migration in my case. Mass. periodically has tax free weekends to help business keep customers during the holiday rush and they still come like zombies to blood over the border. The police department opens up a satellite office at the fire station just at the top of my road each year. They do this to deal with the demolition derby drivers mostly, the carnage is shocking.
 
I wouldn't call them extra crazy. The ones who camp out are extra crazy.


This is New Hampshire, we don’t allow that, we have standards.
 
Who are these people, you know the one’s, the crazed shoppers trying to grocery shop the day before Thanksgiving. They then fuel up on the holiday meal and get up at 4:00am on black friday and totally lose their mind,morality and driving skills to hit the stores.

My home turf is typically pretty mellow but not this time of year. I live a stones throw away from a large shopping mall and about 8 strip shopping complexes. To make matters even crazier I live on the border with Massachusetts and they come here to shop because NH has no sales tax.

Its like a starting pistol goes off each year the day before Thanksgiving. From now until the week after Christmas I’m under sedge. Normally I can leave my home coffee in hand and leisurely head to the market, bakery and seafood market and make it back home before the coffee gets cold. This time of year a badly timed trip can land me in traffic for thirty minutes per mile surround by wide eyed crazy people with out of state tags ( Massachusetts).

We have a nickname for our neighboring crazies “Massholes", it fits them well to be sure. I don’t get their logic flooding the border stores to save 6.25% on a purchase. They went thru that savings driving here and then sitting in traffic with fuel costs and not to mention making my life hell.

I sure hope others don’t have do deal with people like this, If so, tell me about it, I may feel better about this hellish situation.


It would be easier for everyone if Massachusetts declared Black Friday as a sales tax holiday.
 
Who are these people, you know the one’s, the crazed shoppers trying to grocery shop the day before Thanksgiving. They then fuel up on the holiday meal and get up at 4:00am on black friday and totally lose their mind,morality and driving skills to hit the stores.

My home turf is typically pretty mellow but not this time of year. I live a stones throw away from a large shopping mall and about 8 strip shopping complexes. To make matters even crazier I live on the border with Massachusetts and they come here to shop because NH has no sales tax.

Its like a starting pistol goes off each year the day before Thanksgiving. From now until the week after Christmas I’m under sedge. Normally I can leave my home coffee in hand and leisurely head to the market, bakery and seafood market and make it back home before the coffee gets cold. This time of year a badly timed trip can land me in traffic for thirty minutes per mile surround by wide eyed crazy people with out of state tags ( Massachusetts).

We have a nickname for our neighboring crazies “Massholes", it fits them well to be sure. I don’t get their logic flooding the border stores to save 6.25% on a purchase. They went thru that savings driving here and then sitting in traffic with fuel costs and not to mention making my life hell.

I sure hope others don’t have do deal with people like this, If so, tell me about it, I may feel better about this hellish situation.

They're Americans. That's why the rest of the world just stares and slowly shake their heads.

Let's hear it for the free market.
 
Nothing makes a 65 inch HDTV look better than getting it for 40% off the normal price!
Thrown in an extra 6.25% off, and they have bragging rights with their friends.
(Of course they do not mention they waited 6 hours in a freezing rain, for the deal.)
 
They're Americans. That's why the rest of the world just stares and slowly shake their heads.

Let's hear it for the free market.

I’m unclear of your post meaning in this context, could you expand?
 
Nothing makes a 65 inch HDTV look better than getting it for 40% off the normal price!
Thrown in an extra 6.25% off, and they have bragging rights with their friends.
(Of course they do not mention they waited 6 hours in a freezing rain, for the deal.)

Nor the $20 in fuel getting their and back….Yup, who are these people?
 
Nor the $20 in fuel getting their and back….Yup, who are these people?
We went up to Walmart a few hours after the madhouse started one year, just to look at all the crazies.
It was close, and cheap entertainment:mrgreen:.
 
Nothing makes a 65 inch HDTV look better than getting it for 40% off the normal price!
Thrown in an extra 6.25% off, and they have bragging rights with their friends.
(Of course they do not mention they waited 6 hours in a freezing rain, for the deal.)

This is true. And it is especially sweet for those who couldn't afford that HDTV except for an especially attractive Black Friday sale.

I really do sympathize with woodsman's dilemma--here it is the national Indian powwow or the annual Balloon Fiesta that is crazy season for us when the traffic is intolerable, the restaurants all have long waits to be seated, and you can't get into the more popular stores, etc. But I am guessing the NH retailers aren't looking at it quite in the same way as those inconvenienced by the phenomenon. :)
 
I’m unclear of your post meaning in this context, could you expand?

The people you're asking about are American crazed shoppers who've drank the "Black Friday" koolaid dude. They are the zombies of marketing. The free market is what controls what they see and hear, and the fact that they're stupid is their own fault.
 
We went up to Walmart a few hours after the madhouse started one year, just to look at all the crazies.
It was close, and cheap entertainment:mrgreen:.

??? My wife works at WM and their new policy for 24 hour stores keeps things pretty sane. No more opening up the flood gates of stupidity, since they now issue out slips for the big ticket sale items and people just get their slips and then pick up the product at their leisure (within a 1-2 hour window). The WM she works at is one of the biggest in the state and most profitable (she gets a pretty big chunk of the credit for that fact) and she said that while it was crowded, it wasn't the level of insane stupidity that she's seen in the past.
 
??? My wife works at WM and their new policy for 24 hour stores keeps things pretty sane. No more opening up the flood gates of stupidity, since they now issue out slips for the big ticket sale items and people just get their slips and then pick up the product at their leisure (within a 1-2 hour window). The WM she works at is one of the biggest in the state and most profitable (she gets a pretty big chunk of the credit for that fact) and she said that while it was crowded, it wasn't the level of insane stupidity that she's seen in the past.
I am glade they are making improvements, but it will cut down on the entertainment factor a bit.
 
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