Hello, everyone, and welcome to Everything Iconic with me, Danny Pellegrino.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday week.

I love the Thanksgiving holiday, not only because it centers around food and eating,

but even those days after to me are some of the best days of the year because they're cozy. You got the Christmas lights up, twinkling, you're watching movies, you're in a food coma, you don't have to work. It is so fantastic those days post- Thanksgiving. And of course, it's Black Friday the day after Thanksgiving. And I saw these reports. Did you guys see this? That it was like the most successful Black Friday, people were saying, or people did the most shopping on Black Friday. And I don't buy it. I don't buy it because I did, in fact, go to the stores on Black Friday for some savings. And I did not see a lot of people out. And maybe it's because it's a hellish experience shopping in person these days. And you know, I've talked about this before, and I'm just going to briefly touch on it,

because I went on Black Friday thinking, I'm going to get out of the house. I wanted to get some cheap goods, which, by the way, this year, there weren't even any cheap goods, because I went to the big stores, and I wasn't finding some big specials in person at these places because I went and I

I had to get I ended up wanting to get a nose hair trimmer.

I had to replace the one I got and unfortunately I had to wait 25 minutes for them to unlock the gate that the nose hair trimmer was behind, which I don't even fucking understand why they got to lock up a nose hair trimmer that's 1499 on sale from 1699 or whatever it was. It was like $2 off, which that's not a special, but I was still waiting for it because I need to replace it. So I'm like, okay, let me wait here. I wait 20 minutes for them to come because obviously on Black Friday, everybody's trying to get stuff, and they got everything locked up behind those gates now at the stores. But a nose hair trimmer, I'm like, why has a nose hair trimmer locked up behind a gate for 1499?

What's the resale on a stolen 1499 nose hair trimmer? Like, are people really going into these stores? And if they are, they're going to, those people are going to. Right on Hill. Because what are you doing? But, I mean, I don't actually believe that anybody's stealing the nose hair tremors. I think they just lock them up and they're gaslighting us and thinking that people, they had to lock them up because people were stealing them. But I don't buy that. Anyway, I waited 25 minutes. Then I get to the reg. And you know how pissed off I get the reg. Because they don't have any people working. Well, on Black Friday, they did have one person working a register. They had one person working a register, and then they had all the other people had to go to the self-checkout, where they also have one person working, but the person working at the self-checkout is just there to sort of guide people through the maze of self-checkout, make sure that it's running smoothly. And a poor gal who was working there, I felt bad for her. She was at the self-checkout. And everybody was going to the one line where there was a person, because that's all we want nowadays is we just want to check out with a real human being. We don't want to have to do it ourselves. We don't want to have to work the store on Black Friday and check out everything, put it in the bags

and scan it and try to figure out where the item is and the POS system and all that shit.

And so I go to the self-checkout.

I'm waiting.

And then meanwhile, there's like a whole line by the one person who's working on Black Friday

at the cashier.

And the person at the self-checkout was telling people

who were waiting in line with the other cashier, like, hey, come on over. You can come on over here to

self-checkout. It'll be faster. And this one woman, bless her, she just said, we don't want to work

the goddamn self-checkout. She said, we don't, we don't want to go to the

goddamn self-checkout. And she spoke for all of us in that moment. And I was wearing a baseball hat, and I just sort of tipped my hand at her. I said, you're a soldier. You're one of our soldiers. Because she was trying to tell the people who were working there, like, we want to go to a real human being. We don't want to have to

bag it ourselves or anything. And on all days, Black Friday, I mean, I don't, you can't have more people working the registers and stuff. Like, come on. Get it the fuck together. That's why people don't want to go to these stores no more. And I guess everybody was just doing their shopping online. Maybe that's what happened, but I find it to be a miserable experience. And again, the sales were not even that good.

Even if you waited and went, like... or shopping online. Maybe that's what happened. But I find it to be a miserable experience. And again,

the sales were not even that good. Even if you waited and went later in the weekend, I feel like in the stores, I was not fine at any good deals. I just wasn't. And so they need to figure it out for next year. And I'm not saying that we need to go back to the days of yesteryear where everybody was trampled to death in the stores. But I do think that maybe we should find some middle ground or

something because, and don't put me to work at your store. Don't put me to work and say, oh, come on over to the self-checkout. Like, I don't want to go to self-checkout. I'm not interested in that. It's just disgusting for a nose hair trim. We're waiting all that time. Anyway, let's get into the Bravo stuff, because I know that's what you people tuned in for.

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