Black Friday Research Paper

Black Friday. A night of chaos and the notorious consumers scrambling for desired gifts at a cheap price. This Friday is a big friday for store employees, and in an attempt to organise the ambitious shoppers in the packed stores, shelf markers are used to clearly show where everything is. This was the job of a specific balloon. These balloons are the last thing on these employees minds; however, it was not an expected event when a 19 year old took an amusing balloon right out of the store in small town Brillion, Wisconsin.

Nineteen year-old Carson Miller was walking around the local Shopko with her uncle, Al Cook. While shopping for a Christmas present for Miller’s sister, Cook saw a balloon marking the aisle for boys’ items on one side, and

coincidentally toys on the other. He saw the balloon being turned around by a nearby fan where he read the amusing phrase.

Being the overgrown child he is, he nudged his niece and playfully suggested she give the balloon to her boyfriend for Christmas. Al laughed and walked away leaving his immature niece on her own own. Roughly 5 minutes later he gets a call from his wife, Sarah, to meet them in the car.

Little did he know that while he went to wander around the store some more, Carson had climbed on top of the shelf and had taken the balloon.

He could do nothing but laugh on the way home.

He later asked his wife why she had let Carson walk out of the store with the shelf marker. She replied defensively, “She told me a worker gave her the balloon inside the store. It wasn’t until we were halfway home I learned that no worker had given it to her, she had just taken it.”

Sarah tried scolding her niece for taking someone else’s property, only to find out it was her husband who had created the idea in the first place.

“I told her to take as a joke, I never thought she actually would.”

Later on Carson did what she was originally told to do; she gave the Boy toy balloon to her boyfriend happily saying, “Merry Christmas.”