Best Buy
By 9:00 AM, Princeton's Best Buy was the picture of calm, compared to the line that wrapped around the corner of the store four hours previously. Ever searching for a dramatic photo opportunity of screaming customers and violent fights, I must admit to being somewhat disappointed. Not even one fracas on Black Friday? What is New Jersey coming to?
But alas for my morbid curiosity, it’s not to be, says store manager Dennis. With every employee on the floor and a brand-new computer check-out system, the shoppers have been moving through like clockwork. Using a ticket system for the line outside, the store was able to keep their customers happy. After four hours, he says, it’s “just a busy day.”
Salesmen Eric Ferrara and Jeff Angelini have been keeping the crowd moving since the store opened, and are impressed by how smoothly everything has run all morning. While the check-out line ran almost the length of the store at one point, Jeff says that the wait was only around half-an-hour, and there has only been one customer complaint all day.
The most popular items, the men say, have been iPods, satellite radios, cameras (four Kodak cameras were on sale, and are almost gone from the store), camcorders and laptops, especially one that was only $150 after all the rebates.
While parents loaded their carts impossibly (even dangerously) high, children were engrossed in the computer games set up for their perusal.
