For those who think the shopping instances are anything new

[joeglow3]

I was talking to my father-in-law, who is 70, about this. He told me he remembers when he was a child, going downtown where the stores where, with his mother and watching women shoving each other and fighting over items. He distinctly remembers there being tables set up one year and they were all thrown around so people could run to items. He even said when he was a teenager, he would go there just to watch it every year, like clockwork.

You would think people would eventually realize that media and the internet simply make it much easier to report these instances today.

edited to add he said the majority of the stores this was taking place at were local small businesses.

[OnlinePoker]

1. There used to be a chain in BC called Woodwards.

Their biggest sales days were "Dollar forty-nine days". They always happened on Tuesdays so I only got to see them during summer time. It was total bedlam and elbows were thrown by women of all ages. Except for sales staff, I rarely saw a man in the place...stay at home moms looking for bargains mostly, or like my mother, getting in on her days off from work.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. about 20 years ago, I went to an outlet place. When it opened, all the woman ran to

racks and grabbed all they could get into their arms. then they'd sit down and shift thru their pile looking for their size.

[joeglow3]

3. I saw the same thing when I worked retail in the 1990's.

[handmade34]

4. mad dash after 2:00 mark

http://archives.cbc.ca/society/celebrations/topics/412-2347/

[Kingofalldems]

5. I remember George Washington's birthday sales

were a much bigger deal than black friday. Every year on Feb. 22 mobs of people would come out to sales of big items such as TVs for 22 cents.

[WinkyDink]

6. They were called "Washington Day sales," and appliances could be had for 22 cents. And a male teen

would go to those melees "just to watch"? O-kay.