Shops Should Close Earlier on Black Friday

Black Friday has always been a huge deal, even bigger than Thanksgiving. Black Friday isn’t even a holiday, and yet people take Black Friday so seriously, they camp outside of stores for days so they can be the first in line for the best deals of the year. Black Friday is absolute chaos, and the people who participate should learn to exert some forms of self-control to protect themselves and others. Stores should only be open for a certain amount of hours to lessen the danger of harm to customers.

By having stores open for only a certain amount of hours, there’s much less of a chance of people getting hurt, or merchandise being fought over and broken, etc. The customers get crazy on this day; it’s almost comparable to the purge. They’re willing to do anything so that they can get the new iPhone, or score on a cute outfit, or be able to get that flat screen TV at the lowest price they can. People are pushed, yelled at, merchandise is grabbed out of hands and in extreme cases, fights ensue over merchandise that can harm themselves as well as other customers and employees. By limiting the amount of hours, there is less of a chance that people can be harmed by the extreme measures that are taken on this day of super good deals.

Now there will be some protest as to closing stores after a certain amount of time on Black Friday, so it would be a much better idea to have stores open for a few hours, close for an hour, then re-open and let shoppers enter again. This way, there is a break between the chaos, and employees can clean up shops, get something to eat, and customers can calm down outside and take some time to relax, get their heads on straight, and there will be less of a chance that more fighting will happen.