Black Friday

Ah. Black Friday.

It's always amusing to see my coworkers freak out about this day. Especially in the mornings.
I mean we're all aware of the stories.
The mobs.
The trampling.
The fighting.

So it makes sense to be nervous. 

I definitely was nervous my first Black Friday. 
I remember boxing up a lot of animals that day.

But the years after that?
Haven't been exactly as crazy.

And what really factors into it is weather.
If the weather is good, we usually have more people waiting at the doors when we open up.
Bad/cold weather, we have less people.

So yah.
This year it was more my manager freaking out as they'd never had Black Friday in our store.

Which a 'busy' black friday opening is like....maybe 50 people?
and like most of them go to like the Cat Litter. 
And overall it's pretty nice and orderly.
No pushing.
No shoving.

But of course every year you have to deal with the customers who wanted to get that 'one' thing and we only had a limited quantity (or even just one) in stock...
*exhales*
I hate having products unavailable to customers. :( I wish we stocked up on like everything.
But like there's no way to predict what's popular. 
One year we sold guinea pigs like crazy. Other years we didn't sell one.
One year we sold fish tank after fish tank after fish tank...this year we sold like three? 
so yah.
It's hard to predict what will be popular.

But that first morning rush?
Not so crazy.
This year we had like six...maybe up to a dozen people in the store in the first ten or fifteen minutes. 

So not that crazy. 
It felt more like a busy Saturday than anything else. 

Though it did get busier the later in the day it grew.
Especially around lunchtime.

We even prepared by opening up Register 4 to be used.
And like we haven't used Register 4 in a year.

I had the most fun this year picking online orders.
Just grabbing the Ipad and seeing what online orders came in and going to grab it.
That was nice.
Not as stressful as dealing with customers themselves.

But overall.
It wasn't as crazy of a Black Friday in the store.
At least not in petcare.

So my manager had nothing to worry about. ^^;; 

Until you next read these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi