No Line in Front of Best Buy in Affluent DC Suburb

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/29-4



Line outside Best Buy in affluent DC neighborhood 6 hours before opening.

No Line in Front of Best Buy in Affluent DC Suburb
by Jane Hamsher
Published on Friday, November 29, 2013 by FireDogLake

I was watching CNN this morning and the inevitable wall-to-wall “shoppers go crazy on Black Friday” stories. Pope Francis’s invocation against the Western economic promotion of “unbridled consumerism” two days ago seemed remarkably well timed.

But as I watched video of people camped out on sidewalks in the freezing cold this year and mobs violently pushing through doors, consumerism seemed at best a partial explanation.

CNN scolds castigated them for being consumed by greed and treating Black Friday shopping as a “sport,” but these people didn’t look like they were having fun. They looked poor. And desperate.

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Maybe instead of chalking Black Friday mania up to rampant greed we should be looking at the ever increasing gap between the rich and the poor—and the economic policies that are forcing people to participate in a Hunger Games-like spectacle in order to provide for themselves and their families.

[cantbeserious]

1. Same Thought Here - Need To Correlate Socioeconomic Data With Big Box Store Locations

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[Laelth]

2. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[MADem]

3. They looked poor. And desperate.

Exactly--I made a similar point in another one of your threads, and it's a valid point to be made, indeed.

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4111734

A lot of this "Black Friday-BAAAAAAAAAD" shit is just poor folk shaming. I'm over it!