Wal-Mart's #1 Black Friday Seller Was A 29-Cent Washcloth — And There's Video Of People Going Wild

[xchrom]

http://www.businessinsider.com/wa-mart-29-cent-washcloth-2013-12

Here's a great little Black Friday nugget. Wal-Mart's #1 seller was a washcloth.

From NBCNews:

The retailer announced it had sold 2.8 million towels during the shopping event, which this year started even earlier at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The textile sales outpaced the 300,000 bicycles, 1.4 million tablets, and 2 million televisions sold during the period, and also beat last year's towel sales by 1 million.

For $1.74, bath towels and six packs of washcloths were available. That breaks down to $.29 per washcloth.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/wa-mart-29-cent-washcloth-2013-12#ixzz2mPw3kDvb

[marmar]

1. All that's missing is the Colosseum and the lions......

........ as we descend into this sad spectacle.

[xchrom]

2. it does leave one shaking their head...nt

[Cali_Democrat]

4. ....

[pipoman]

3. WalMart should be held accountable for injuries

because of their elementary school handling of such nonsense. This could all be avoided simply by having enough supply for the demand, and having those things they are knowingly promoting in many areas throughout the store. Instead they promote this shit by constructing a false sense of rarity of the worthless shit they sell..

As for the washcloths, we buy 10 packs for $3 at Dollar store and use them as semi-disposable rags.

[mikeysnot]

5. wait till we are doing that for food.

Didn't step one foot into a store until Sat night. Fuck this shit.