Black Friday

Shoppers wait outside a Joplin, MO Office Depot Friday morning at 5:30, 30 minutes before opening. The line had started forming about 4PM on Thanksgiving day, well over 12 hours before the store opened Friday morning. I waited until after 5AM this morning to stand in line as the items I wanted were relatively low-demand - external hard drives to store the gazillions of photos generated in the documentation of traveling jackalopes.