[KHTS] Black Friday shoppers are already lining up outside Best Buy in Saugus Tuesday.
Three tents have been set up outside of the Best Buy as of Tuesday morning for the annual day-after-Thanksgiving tradition.
Best Buy, located at 26531 Bouquet Canyon Road, is set to open at 6 a.m. on Black Friday this year.
Tickets are passed out to those waiting in line for door buster sales for items such as televisions, movies and video game consoles, Jonny Morita, asset protection associate at Best Buy, said.
“Some guy last year bought one hundred DVD’s,” Morita said.
The Valdez family, consisting of 19 people, are the first in line at the store. They got in line on Saturday morning, six days before Black Friday.
“We do Best Buy Black Friday every year, it’s kind of become more of a family tradition,” said Jessica Valdez. “My dad started it eight or nine years ago when Circuit City was still around. We just kind of moved from store to store, we’ve been doing this store for like four or five years.”
However, Black Friday is more than just bargains for the Valdez family.
“Every night our whole family is here, we’ll play board games, we play cards together, it’s fun,” Jessica Valdez said. “A lot of people see it as a really bad thing. On Sunday, my 75-year-old grandpa was here and we were playing cards for three hours. If you’re at home, you don’t typically do that. It’s really nice family time for us.”
The Valdez family has arrived to Best Buy earlier and earlier each year, she said. Last year, the family arrived on Sunday, five days before Black Friday, and were second in line.
Even though the family will be camped out in front of Best Buy for days before Black Friday, Jessica Valdez says employees have been friendly.
“We know the manager because we’ve been doing this for so long, like five years, at this location,” she said. “The staff is really friendly, they think we’re crazy but they’re still really nice about it.”
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100 Comments
Guillermo Medrano wow !!
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Pathetic
I agree and it’s unfair to retail associates like myself who have to work it instead of being at home with their own family
Yea it’s becoming a joke. It’s not black friday anymore. It’s black Thursday and Friday. It’s sad really that retailers would rather see money in their bank accounts than let their employees stay home and enjoy family since most if not all of their corporate people are home with theirs.
It’s also sad that people find it more important to camp out and buy material things instead of being at home with those people they are buying for. People’s priorities are so mixed up these days!!
EXACTLY THANK YOU!!!!! My uncle told me that when Sam Walton was alive he’d always close Walmart for every holiday but when he passed it all changed :/
Did y’all ever think they these people may not have family? Or this is there first time doing it, I don’t shop on black Friday, but I certainly don’t judge others.
I’d rather pay full price than waste my time “camping” for a deal.
I make more $ per hour than the savings associated with a black Friday deal. Would never camp out for days to save a few $$$ bucks. Redic!
Everybody has their own traditions, are these people really causing you any inconvenience? If its cause you have to work then find yourself a better job. Grow up people
What if them in line dont celebrate thanksgiving?
FB high five ✋?!! My thoughts exactly ?
It’s not the people waiting in line it’s the retail stores opening on Thanksgiving that I find are the problem. Miss the days of 4 am waiting on friday.
I agree!
To me Black Friday is a waste of time since people would rather wait in long ass lines shopping instead of being home with their families for Thanksgiving and eating like a family like we used to do years ago besides they’re not getting a lot of good prices or deals in my opinion then again if you want to do it so badly do it online where it’s safe and stuff since we’re getting a lot of bomb threats and we’re told to avoid large crowds as well. Coming from a retail associate I’d rather be home with my family eating and spending time together instead of having to work stupid Black Friday!! ??
They were there yesterday when I went lol
Really??!!
They’ve been there since last weekend!!
I’d rather spend time with my family, and avoid crazies.
Exactly and avoid being in danger
Omg!
I never did get the allure of Black Friday….
Me either. Nice last name!!
You too brother!
I’d rather be spending time with my family
Me too but nooooooo retail is making me work
Poor Best Buy employees. Working retail sucks so bad.
Yeah it does :/
My sister works there. My sister doesnt get to spend time with our family because of this.
Nichole Goltz I’m so sorry to hear that. I absolutely refuse to shop black Friday’s or any holidays because of that. Only shopping I will do is black Friday deals online!
These people who are inline are just materialistic people with no concept of family.
Kyle Lee
Did they take time off work or…..?
Idiots!
If I could I would get in line and sell my spot. $$$
???
That sound great idea
Losers
Lets go Larissa, can we borrow Marks tent? ?
Matthew Lennon
#morons
Hahahaha! ??
Time is money
Apparently they have time and not money
Exactly!!! Time is money!!!!!
No one’s in the tent
Time to break out my grizzly bear costume and tear thru camp
Omhosh that’s would be HAlarious!!!! Do it!! Record it & you will become a YouTube star!!! ????!! Do it!!!
That would be funny as hell!
Are the deals really THAT good?
Dumb
“Tis’ the ti-ime to be greedy. Fa-La-Lala-Laaa La La -La-la….”
Omg, that’s to too much…..
Pathetic
Seems like a perfect opportunity for the homeless with tents. You have a place to camp out for a week without getting hassled.
Jhonny Claudio Olvera
Starting a little late eh
LOL
So dumb!
back in the 90s they had some awsome black Friday stuff nowadays it doesn’t seem enough to get me out of bed… I’ve done black Friday twice but I worked it as a retail associate quit a few years… that was when it started on Friday not thursday… but it was fun to me and some of the stuff u would see ppl do was wrong but oh so halerious ???
Good to see there are still spots available . Waste all that time to be sitting there
Lololol that’s hilarious. I thought frys was gonna have lines around the building but I went the morning of and nobody was there
That’s sad how people spend time there ..than family..!
Insane! I’ll hold out for cyber Monday and avoid the crazies!
No mamen jajaja
This is ridiculous.
When is enough, enough? Really? Tents? I wouldn’t for all the money…My family is WAY more important.
Sad to see how many stupid people are out there…Hugs
How many will die this year due to Black Friday?
Why don’t you guys show the lines at Trader Joe’s, that’s crazy.
I drove by and saw that. .. crazy
Sad!
Fools. Good luck finding just what you want
Losers!!⚓️
Pathetic and idiotic!
No Thank You
This is becoming the ultimate tailgate party.
Occupy Best Buy has begun.
So disappointing
Thanksgiving should be spent with your family; being thankful for what you have. If you shop on thanksgiving you are only supporting the businesses to continue to be open on holidays ….
Not worth your time. Shop online.
No one is in the tents…they are cheating
They were there on Saturday
Absurd!!
Nothing a firehouse can’t take care of
Morons need to get a life. The deals are on now. Oops there are only empty tents that people drop off ..
Because ugly consumerism makes middle-class Americans into strip mall refugees.
Is it there a no loitering law that should be enforced come on this is pathetic
They aren’t there during the day. They put up the tents, then leave. I was there yesterday and one of the tents (third one from left) had fallen over. Looks like a homeless encampment. Thought those were not allowed in SCV?
Knuckleheads
Django Chang ?
Yuck!!!
Seriously? Years ago, the deals were great, and going super early to line up was ok. But I would never have camped out for ANYTHING. This is dumb.
The TVs they get wont last 2 years..junk!! ??
The tents are empty at night
Anyone got a bear costume I can borrow, I really want to rip through this tents with it!