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Dunh dunh DUNH! It's the most insane shopping day of the year, thanks to most people being off and feeling that the day after Thanksgiving is an acceptable beginning to the Christmas shopping season. However, some stores were actually open yesterday, giving turkey and football some competition. Some stores opened at 5AM today, others at 6AM. In fact, some people have been flying in from overseas, perhaps to take advantage of the exchange rate!
Are you going crazy with the shopping today? Or are you just plowing through leftovers and hitting the movies? A Gothamist relative went to the Times Square Toys R Us this morning at 3AM, to wait in line for a Wii...only to (1) find out at 5AM that the shipment didn't come in and get kicked out of the store at 7AM (well, the security said, "We're not kicking you out...you just can't wait in the store anymore"). Those nerds are such suckers!
The Reverend Billy was at Macy's this morning (5AM!), to remind people to Stop Shopping, as people can take up to four months to pay their holiday bills. We hear that even though a security guard physically lifted Reverend Billy up to take him out of Macy's, the guard was "disturbingly pleasant." He also went to the 57th Street Victoria's Secret and will be in SoHo today at 3PM. See photos of Reverend Billy at Macy's here.
And Gowanus Lounge has an excellent Black Friday alternative: Adopting a pet from a shelter or contributing to one as a gift.
Photograph of Reverend Billy at Macy's on Black Friday by Fred Askew Photography
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Black Friday is a gyp!!!! you have to wake up at 3 am just to get a cheap ass laptop that's less than 5 per store and the employees friends already got dibs. There has to be a better business practice where the bestbuy friends and family hoard all the ps3's and Wii's. I mean they are absolutely lying when they say they have no ps3's or Wii's. If you wait around long enought you'll see them pull them out the back for their friends. There must be a law against this. It's totally not fair.
Your "photos of Reverend Billy at Macy's here" points to the NYPost... and no photos, FYI.
That Reverend Billy needs to find a new racket. Enough already, geeez.
The NY Post should get their facts straight Woodbury Commons is located in Orange County. (Central Valley,NY)
"Thousands of people packed the Woodbury Commons Mall in Rockland County, filling every spot in its huge parking lot and causing a huge backup on the Thruway."
Anecdotes from die hard Black Friday-ers:
http://www.fatwallet.com/t/55/675388/
http://www.fatwallet.com/t/55/675392
Long live Reverend Billy