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Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:08 am
by Chizzang
REI Shocks Retail World By Closing For Black Friday..!!!

All 12,000 employees will get paid to go PLAY OUTSIDE





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Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:10 am
by andy7171
Yay!!!! I've had Thanksgiving Friday off for 13 years now! Fuck Presidents Day!

Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 11:53 am
by Rob Iola
andy7171 wrote:Yay!!!! I've had Thanksgiving Friday off for 13 years now! Fuck Presidents Day!
What about MLK day? More seats on the bus?

Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:00 pm
by HI54UNI
My first thought when I read the original post was confirmed by the end of the article:

"And, as REI’s marketing materials make clear, if you really insist on shopping with them on Black Friday, the REI website (staffed by a skeleton crew for the day), will still be open."

So REI gets the good PR for letting almost all of their employees take the day off plus they still make the bucks with online sales.

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Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:02 pm
by Chizzang
HI54UNI wrote:My first thought when I read the original post was confirmed by the end of the article:

"And, as REI’s marketing materials make clear, if you really insist on shopping with them on Black Friday, the REI website (staffed by a skeleton crew for the day), will still be open."

So REI gets the good PR for letting almost all of their employees take the day off plus they still make the bucks with online sales.

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How do you "close" a website..?

:geek:

Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:31 pm
by andy7171
Chizzang wrote:
HI54UNI wrote:My first thought when I read the original post was confirmed by the end of the article:

"And, as REI’s marketing materials make clear, if you really insist on shopping with them on Black Friday, the REI website (staffed by a skeleton crew for the day), will still be open."

So REI gets the good PR for letting almost all of their employees take the day off plus they still make the bucks with online sales.

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How do you "close" a website..?

:geek:
Off button. :dunce:

Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:36 pm
by AshevilleApp
Fuck Black Friday!

More and more people are going on line, or shopping the pre-Black Friday sales anyway. I prefer none of the above. ;)

Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 1:01 pm
by 89Hen
Bully for them. REI sucks balls anyway. Has to be one of the most overpriced stores in the history of retail. Right up there with Nordstrom and Apple.

Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 1:34 pm
by dbackjon
89Hen wrote:Bully for them. REI sucks balls anyway. Has to be one of the most overpriced stores in the history of retail. Right up there with Nordstrom and Apple.

And like those two stores, the customers will just shop there the next day or weekend.

Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 2:19 pm
by Gil Dobie
I never new they were crazy hippies. :twocents:

I didn't know hippies were crazy either. :twocents:

Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 2:56 pm
by Pwns
Nobody shops on black Friday. It's too crowded.

Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 3:17 pm
by kalm
89Hen wrote:Bully for them. REI sucks balls anyway. Has to be one of the most overpriced stores in the history of retail. Right up there with Nordstrom and Apple.
It is over-priced and I rarely buy something there but they do many good things as an organization. Glad they're successful.

Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 3:23 pm
by 93henfan
Chizzang wrote:
HI54UNI wrote:My first thought when I read the original post was confirmed by the end of the article:

"And, as REI’s marketing materials make clear, if you really insist on shopping with them on Black Friday, the REI website (staffed by a skeleton crew for the day), will still be open."

So REI gets the good PR for letting almost all of their employees take the day off plus they still make the bucks with online sales.

Image

How do you "close" a website..?

:geek:
Check BH Photo or Adorama, the two big Jewish-owned tech websites in NYC. You cannot order from sundown Fri to sundown Sat on a weekly basis, nor on any Jew holiday. They were just closed a week for Sukkot, whatever the fuck that is. This in addition to Yummy Kippers, Rosh Corned Beef Hashana, Passover, etc.

Re: Crazy Hippies at it again...

Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:42 am
by CID1990
Black Friday is a perfect day to spray chemtrails and clean out the gene pool

Amirite, spannost?