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Vault: People Are Fighting Over Shopping Carts?!

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🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Vault: People Are Fighting Over Shopping Carts?!

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0:00.0

The Bert Show.

0:01.3

All right, so things are sort of getting a little nasty outside right now because it's, I mean, it's the last couple of days of shopping here. Mm-hmm. And I think that there are some retailers that purposely may put as few items that are hot on the shelf as possible to create some kind of hysteria. Oh, totally. So really anything can happen over the next four days. You could use, you were just talking about the Wii. Like, that would be a perfect example. I mean, they were struggling with

0:25.0

that. Totally. So really anything can happen over the next four days. You could use, you were just talking about the Wii.

0:21.6

Like, that would be a perfect example.

0:23.3

I mean, they were struggling with that for the first year it was out, you know, like,

0:27.8

and Nintendo's famous for this.

0:29.4

Like, they know that they're going to sell one million game systems, so they manufacture

0:35.0

$600,000 just to create the hysteria and the excitement and keep it in the news and everything.

0:39.5

Sometimes it just gets out of hand.

0:41.2

But then it opens up to a whole bunch of other situations.

0:45.4

I went to the mall both days.

0:47.2

Jessica and I went on Sunday.

0:48.7

And like the parking lot, even mall's not really as crowded as I've seen it in Christmas's past.

0:53.1

But people still get oddly competitive for the close-up parking spots.

0:56.6

Oh, sure. Even though two rows away, there's five empty spots. Like, I think it's just this animal instinct that comes out. Like, people, you know, their endorphins are up. The adrenaline's pumping, and they're like, that's my spot. It's more about wins and losses at this point. And then you have the people, the people who are calling our, you know, retail rant line,

1:13.6

the employees who have just been dealing with it since the day after Thanksgiving.

1:17.7

Jessica and I had to get a gift certificate from you.

1:19.3

Somebody who is so salty, never once made eye contact with us, just mad at the fact that we were purchasing something from them. So there's all these factors

1:29.8

into place which got me thinking somebody this holiday season has had to have gotten into a

1:40.4

physical altercation while buying their Christmas gifts. 404-7401 Q100.

1:46.6

Now it could be a situation like, how about this maneuver?

1:49.0

You're in the parking lot and you're there, your blinkers on, but the car backs out in the opposite,

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