Tuesday, December 05, 2017

2017 Back Friday experience with family

For past decade, I am not doing any shopping (At least visiting the physical store.) 
If required, I am purchasing via online.  However this year, I decided to give some experience to the kids. (Now they are in high/middle School) & they need laptops. SO I felt, this is the right time.  Basically they  are curious about one days record sales.  On thank giving day, I purchased couple of laptop from frys.com and for pickup, we went to store.  I will write one more post on frys.com ( how not to do e-commerce in today's world) however coming to main topic, on Fridays stores are opened at 6AM. We reached the store around 10.15 AM. Parking is mess. Based on my past experience, I told wife & kids to pick whatever you want come to line. I went directly checkout line. This is long. After sting 90 minutes in the line, I reached, cash register. ( in between, family wrapped, their pick & joined me.  Absolute shocking thing is my online order is not ready.  Cashier took, my order number and went on picking items for next 40 minutes. After spending 40 minutes, he came back and said one of my laptop is out of stock.   Finally we are out of the store around 12.15… My kids first feedback it, let’s avoid Black Friday shopping & in particular Frys. Let’s go to lunch.  

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