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Had to venture out today, but just to the grocery store. Wish I had stuck to Instacart, even the grocery was overrun with stupid shoppers.

As is my in-box: every single company I've purchased something from sent me a BF with their sale information. Even Wayne Root is having a sale.

Ugh.

I like how Google Maps can show you how busy a store is at the moment. By the way, to see that, find the business on Google Maps, click on it, scroll down on the information about that business and you will see the following:
I'll go to the grocery store later, but I'm keeping away from the Christmas shopping destinations today. That shopping can wait.

Did not venture out shopping today, but ms.tek and daughter.tek did. Have not gotten the spending report as of yet.

Sainsmart is taunting me with a black friday email deal on a desktop CNC, but I haven't decided I'm ready to pull the trigger.. I did get some good info, though, from son-in-law.tek who is visiting.. and who is a mechanical design engineer..

Once, about ten years ago, my wife wanted a new flat screen tv. Target advertised a big Black Friday sale with a good deal on such tvs.

This was back when you had to actually go to the store on Black Friday.

So, I got up at 4:00am and drove to the store, only to find that there are already several hundred people standing in line to enter the store at 7:00am (or was it 6:00?). I bit the bullet and waited in the rain.

When I finally got in, about a half hour after the store opened, I saw many shoppers with two or three of the tvs in their shopping cart. Of course, there were none left. I don't think I bought anything. That was my first and last foray into a store on Black Friday.

NEVER again. Now, I don't even leave the house on Black Friday.

I used to work as a Holiday hire at a (high priced) kitchen store at a mall in Plano for a couple of years. Usually on a Black Friday. I go nowhere near stores between Thanksgiving and New Years if I can help it.

I spent a day - I kid you not - as a pet store Santa Claus. For a charity, a good friend of ours worked there. Fun day.

My brother was bothering me to go out to the store today so we ventured to target. Luckily it wasn't that bad and there weren't too many people there

I have to go to the mall to pick up some packages. Not happy about that!

I avoid going to retail places and even grocery stores on Black Friday. I just don't usually even go out though today, I had a funeral to play for so I did that and then stayed and practiced for a while.

I avoid the mall area from end of November until end of December.

Today begin the "Last chance for Black Friday deals!" emails.

Yes, they have. I've gotten 40 since midnight.

I've started getting the Early Cyber Monday emails.

While all the shoppers were fighting over off off brand TVs and Harbor Freight quality tools at Walmart I drove home from my Dad's house. I had very light traffic on a highway that's normally busy all the time. It made for a fairly pleasant drive home.

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 3:58 pm I like how Google Maps can show you how busy a store is at the moment. By the way, to see that, find the business on Google Maps, click on it, scroll down on the information about that business and you will see the following:

Busy Target.jpg

I'll go to the grocery store later, but I'm keeping away from the Christmas shopping destinations today. That shopping can wait.

Thanks. I had no idea they could do that, but it makes sense. This is a good use of data aggregation just like their real time traffic maps.

poplove wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:15 pm

Off topic. You trend-setter.

“Recorder set to be eclipsed by soaring popularity of ukulele in school music classes”:
https://inews.co.uk/news/recorder-popul ... es-1322332

“A survey of music teachers teaching whole class ensembles found that 15 per cent used the ukelele in 2020 – a fifteen-fold increase from the 1 per cent recorded in 2014”

Uninformed wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:18 pm

poplove wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:15 pm

Off topic. You trend-setter.

“Recorder set to be eclipsed by soaring popularity of ukulele in school music classes”:
https://inews.co.uk/news/recorder-popul ... es-1322332

“A survey of music teachers teaching whole class ensembles found that 15 per cent used the ukelele in 2020 – a fifteen-fold increase from the 1 per cent recorded in 2014”

Suranis wrote: ↑Mon Nov 29, 2021 3:20 am

Off Topic

(UOGB video)