Black Friday, True chaos

This Friday for the first time in many years I was not a participant in the histeria of Black Friday. This is because for the first time in a while I did not visit my family who lives in southern Illinois. Every year they wake up at 4 in the morning already having plotted out which stores they will go to and what they are going to buy, to join the ranks of thousands of people out to save money on the appliances they need for Christmas. I always thought it was nuts the way that people fight and push over the savings they will perhaps receive but truly found out how horrifying it is last year when the man was killed in New York trying to contain the crowd. If this wasnt bad enough this year hundreds of articles like this have come out talking about the scams that places such as Walmart have come up with to attract customers to their stores on this day. This day perfectly reflects our society and how our consumer market works. We are gullible enough to buy into these companies pitches about savings and literally go crazy over them the day that they happen. This paints a sad picture for our country and how we are perceived by other nations. What do you think about black friday?