Advanced Warning For Customers

[Mike Taylor]

With Black Friday and Christmas around the corner, who among you are warning your customers in advance about possible shortages on hot items and what are they?

Where I work, the Big Yellow Price Tag has already sold through its pre-orders on the new Nintendo Wii-U game system, so I've been giving my customers advance notice. Likewise, there's a couple of other hot electronic toys that I've advised grandparents and parents to get ASAP.

[sms001]

Not in retail, but I'll ask the wife.

I am curious, (But it wouldn't make a good thread on its own.) so as you folks answer Mike's question would you mind telling me if your corporate has taken to calling Black Friday "DaT?" (Day after Thanksgiving.) Her corp just started this nomenclature in memos etc. this year and I'm wondering if it's nationwide.

(Oh, and MT: thanks for the heads-up on the Wiis, I know a few people planning on them, I'll pass it along.)

[Mike Taylor]

As an aside, various businesses have tried calling it other things besides "Black Friday" ("Green Friday" for example), but it never seems to stick.

[Kheldarson]

I am curious, (But it wouldn't make a good thread on its own.) so as you folks answer Mike's question would you mind telling me if your corporate has taken to calling Black Friday "DaT?" (Day after Thanksgiving.) Her corp just started this nomenclature in memos etc. this year and I'm wondering if it's nationwide.

It depends on the company. My current one still calls it "Black Friday", at least to the employees, when I was at Wal-mart, they were calling it "the Event" on everything and to everyone.

[Food Lady]

I just call it hell.

[malmalthekiller]

My store started using a new strange terminology for it, but I have to check some e-mails to see what it is. I can't remember.

[violiavampyr]

I call it "My first day of not working on that day in 5 years" :P

[pzychobitch]

I just call it hell.

When I worked retail it was called Black Friday. Now since I am not really in retail much anymore, I call it "the day in which most retail workers most commonly consider suicide"

[Tama]

My first and last Black Friday as a cashier was not that bad...maybe because I wasn't helping anyone out.

After 3 hours the crowd seriously petered out and almost all cashiers were standing at the end of their aisles and got sent on breaks.

[sms001]

Mrs. sms asked around (Her big ticket item is a gun safe, and she has plenty.) and the only thing anyone seems concerned about are Apple items ---phones and tablets. Since no one except Walmart has them as door busters, doesn't seem to be that big a deal. And my Wii U people were planning on being 'first in line' anyway (nutjobs) so hopefully they're covered.

[Zapper]

Saw some stores bumped up their Black Friday deals to Thanksgiving Day - even worse for workers this year with shit like that.

[Mike Taylor]

Saw some stores bumped up their Black Friday deals to Thanksgiving Day - even worse for workers this year with shit like that.

Check Facebook, people like yours truly are seriously cheesed off about it.