Posts Tagged ‘Shoppers’

As the clock reaches 5 a.m., tensions mound, the doors finally open. The only thing standing between Allison and what she wants (a plasma TV) is the lone security guard…she just accidentally trampled. Now, Allison has to decide whether go for the TV or help a fellow human being?

Ignorance and Want: The Death of Christmas

Every year, Allison took the Friday after Thanksgiving off (from work) just for this purpose. Since she was a junior in high school, the same year the first Mega-Shopper store opened its doors in Emerald City, they’d been coming here. A dozen years later, Allison considered their meeting in Row D of the Mega-Shopper parking lot on Black Friday at 2 a.m. a sort of family reunion. With her two sisters, Roxanne and Patricia, and their mother, Frances, they eagerly joined roughly three hundred other early bird shoppers who’d formed a makeshift line along the side of the store.

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