Walmart’s Black Friday black eye.
Its Black Friday sale has given Walmart a black eye with many of its customers who showed up before the crack of dawn Friday, only to find the sale items they wanted already sold out….
“On November 27, I arrived Walmart in Iron Mountain, MI at 4:30am. I was there to purchase a 32″ emerson tv and a laptop computer,” said Stacey of Goodman, Wis. “What I found interesting is that there were customers inside shopping. I heard many complaints from these customers that all the electronics were sold out at 3:30am. How can this be when the ad did not say anything about pre-sales? When I asked an associate, they told me that there were special purchase tickets given out starting at midnight!”
I have a modest proposal to end this farce once and for all. It’s called a raincheck. If a store won’t guarantee a sale price, it has no business offering it.
Interesting idea. So, if a store only has 50 32″ TVs at, say, $348 and 51 customers want them, the store should just keep raising the price until one of the 51 people decide they no longer want one? Or should just throw them in the compactor so that no one gets one?
I did not like the idea of passing out tickets before 5A.M. but I must agree it is a first come first serve. If you went to buy tickets for a rock concert,you would wait in line,and maybe not get a ticket.So I really don’t see the difference.
It’s funny though – people have been getting onto Walmart for not handing out tickets and being so secretive with the quantities. This year, we handed out tickets, counted heads, closed down lines and freely gave out quantity information in regards to the items once we had it – yet, we’re still the bad guy.
I do so wish Jonathan would answer my 50 TVs/51 people question…