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| Millie Weaver reporting to you for Infowars.com. | |
| Well, it is Black Friday and there is no frenzy to be found. | |
| We are here outside of Costco, who is one of the stores that actually did not open their doors on Thanksgiving for an early Black Friday frenzy, which most... | |
| We saw many malls, many large retailers opened up their doors on Thanksgiving, which is actually Thursday, essentially usurping the holiday for a consumer frenzy. | |
| Now, yesterday, Thursday night, the majority of the frenzy had occurred, but from people that I spoke to that had participated in the frenzy, they said, That it was nowhere near the past Black Friday experiences they've had. | |
| In essence, it was a smaller frenzy than you've seen at Black Friday, which makes sense because a lot of families probably didn't go out because they wanted to spend time with their family. | |
| You know, Thanksgiving. | |
| It's a holiday. | |
| Typically Americans celebrate it instead of going shopping. | |
| But Costco is one of the companies that actually held out. | |
| You can see here. | |
| It shows that they were closed on Thanksgiving. | |
| They are closed on most major holidays and it says that they open here at 9 a.m. | |
| for Black Friday sales. | |
| Now what's interesting here is you can see the parking lot is barren. | |
| You don't see any customers here. | |
| Nobody's standing in line. | |
| Nobody's waiting for Black Friday because Black Friday happened on Thanksgiving. | |
| Essentially Black Thursday because many of these sellout corporations decided to ruin Thanksgiving and open up their doors and force their employees to work on Thanksgiving. | |
| Now what's interesting here is that you can see a bunch of cars off in the back of the parking lot here. | |
| Which is an indicator that those cars most likely belong to Costco employees who are most likely inside right now preparing and getting ready for their Black Friday sales. | |
| Now, what's crazy here is we may actually see the companies that decided to keep their doors closed on Thanksgiving. | |
| These companies might actually be hit because... | |
| The Black Friday frenzy has happened already on Thanksgiving, and it wasn't even as big as it could have been, but companies that had their doors closed are now going to have missed out on the panic buying frenzy because everyone is staying in in Austin. | |
| They aren't going out because why go out early morning when you can just go out in the evening on Thursday, on Thanksgiving, and go shopping? | |
| So it's interesting here that, you know, people who are having to work on Thanksgiving, you know, are essentially getting their time spent with their family and their friends. | |
| you know, really kind of messed with here by these big corporations. | |
| It's interesting that they've managed to take a holiday. | |
| That was supposed to be about people, friends, neighbors coming together, you know, being united, having a sense of camaraderie, sharing their harvest with each other. | |
| Whereas now, look at this person speeding around like crazy. | |
| So at least you still have some people. | |
| At least you still have some people running around. | |
| It looks like I'm seeing a bunch of people. | |
| Like, okay, so you have your few people speeding around in a frenzied state, right? | |
| But then they come and they see that there aren't any lines and then they leave. | |
| And that's one of the things I just saw at Best Buy. | |
| They had a very tiny line. | |
| Maybe eight people, okay, with all these. | |
| And I figured maybe that was because Best Buy had opened their doors on Thanksgiving, so the majority of the shopping had occurred on Thanksgiving. | |
| But I saw a large amount of people coming, driving up, seeing that there wasn't a big line on Black Friday, and then leaving. | |
| Well... | |
| I'll let you guys kind of decide why you think they were leaving, but me personally, I believe that they were leaving because most people figured or assumed that because there wasn't a big line, there must not have been very good sales. | |
| They're figuring that, well, maybe the sales aren't very good. | |
| Maybe the items that are there or on sale aren't very good. | |
| Therefore, it's not worth standing in line because if it was, you'd see a big line. | |
| When the reality is... | |
| There's not a big line because a large percentage of the frenzy happened on Thanksgiving, but it was nowhere near the past historic frenzies we've seen on Black Friday. | |
| This is one thing I want to say. | |
| So far, Drudge Report is reporting $20 billion in sales on Thanksgiving as though, you know, this is some huge deal because this is more for a Thanksgiving Thursday sale than we've seen and somehow it's going to be an indicator of a much larger Black Friday weekend of sales. | |
| But my theory here, after what I'm seeing, is that that actually might have flopped Black Friday. | |
| That actually might have ruined the sales for Black Friday to where we're going to see lower sales than we would have typically seen. | |
| Because when there's not as much of a hysteria and anxiety about panic buying, people don't go out and stand in line and go shopping. | |
| Essentially, they got it already over and done with. | |
| And what many people are seeing also is that most people are doing their shopping online. | |
| A large percentage of Black Friday sales... | |
| Are now being done online at websites. | |
| People don't want to go out in the frenzy. | |
| They don't want to have to stand in line. | |
| They don't want to have to fight with each other. | |
| Of course you still see that. | |
| We've seen a couple handful of cases this season on Thanksgiving when the doors opened early. | |
| You saw some fights. | |
| I believe there was a man in Missouri that was shot outside of a mall. | |
| So you did see a handful of incidences here. | |
| But online shopping is really how you avoid that all. | |
| And I do want to mention that right now we are having a Black Friday sale online at Infowarsstore.com where you can go on there to find our awesome and amazing Black Friday sales. | |
| You know, Alex is really kind of going all out with this one. | |
| So make sure you guys head over to the website and get those sales while they last. | |
| This is the difference between going and ruining Thanksgiving, like some of these big corporations are doing, not necessarily Costco, or just going and shopping online on Black Friday, as was intended. | |
| Black Friday was supposed to be always an after-Thanksgiving sale. | |
| A couple decades ago, when people talked about... | |
| Black Friday. | |
| It wasn't even called Black Friday. | |
| It was called after Thanksgiving sales. | |
| And it became Black Friday because it put most businesses from the red into the black. | |
| Essentially, it really helped their numbers out. | |
| So thus, it became Black Friday. | |
| Whereas before, it was always after Thanksgiving sales. | |
| Well now, it's become... | |
| Thanksgiving sales. | |
| So people go out shopping on Thanksgiving Day. | |
| A lot of people I talked to didn't seem very fond of that. | |
| They didn't seem very happy about it. | |
| I spoke to a girl earlier today who went out to the frenzy on Thursday and she even agreed that it wasn't as big, there wasn't as much of a frenzy as she had typically seen with other Black Fridays and that it did kind of ruin the spirit of the holiday. | |
| It did. | |
| And that it would have been better if Black Friday had started at least at midnight when it became Friday. | |
| So, you know, I really salute Costco here for not opening, not making their employees work on Thanksgiving. | |
| But at the same time... | |
| It seems as though this ended up in a flop for them and the businesses that didn't open their doors are actually going to be hurt in the end. | |
| But maybe that's what some of these other businesses wanted to do and undercut those people that weren't going to open up their doors. | |
| You know, businesses competitive, so to speak. | |
| But for all you guys, I just wanted to say... | |
| I hope you guys all had a happy Thanksgiving. | |
| I had a good Thanksgiving with my family, and I didn't have to go out and show you this stuff, but I really wanted to make sure that, you know, we showed you what was going on here during this Thanksgiving holiday out here, and I was with my family. | |
| I had my husband and my little boy tag along with me, so we spent some good time. | |
| But I just want to say here... | |
| We can't allow our traditional holidays to be taken over by consumerism. | |
| And I'll let you, the listeners, decide what you think needs to be done and comment below what you think needs to be done. | |
| But I personally think people need to start boycotting these businesses that want to have their Black Friday sales on Thursday. | |
| Once again, guys, check out our store, Infowarsstore.com. | |
| You guys, you the listeners, are the reason that we are even able to sustain and be out there giving you guys the truth, broadcasting what the mainstream media won't. | |
| So, make sure you guys check in. | |
| To the Alex Jones radio show today because Alex will be going and talking about some amazing deals and covering the Black Friday frenzy that happened on Thursday Thanksgiving. |
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