The Walmart store in Bellevue, Washington.Irene Jiang / Business Insider
- Walmart is a major destination for Black Friday shopping.
- The retailer started its Black Friday in-store event at 6 p.m. local time on Thanksgiving Day, November 28.
- We visited two Walmart stores on Black Friday on opposite ends of the country and the experiences were completely different.
- While one store was somewhat busy and the other completely empty, neither were as chaotic as we expected from a Walmart on Black Friday.
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Walmart is notorious for its Black Friday chaos.
The retailer — already famous for it's "everyday low prices" — is known to ramp up its deals on the holiday season. This year, Walmart's in-store Black Friday shopping event began at 6 p.m. local time on Thanksgiving day, November 28.
However, as more people shift toward shopping online, Black Friday as we once knew it has started to change. The massive crowds and lines that once characterized the national shopping holiday are dying down on the famed day itself. The real even starts the day before and customers shop online through the weekend all the way to Cyber Monday.
Walmart has also faced backlash for its labor practices, especially its decision to keep stores open on Thanksgiving without providing workers with overtime pay. Many shoppers expressed their outrage on Twitter, threatening to boycott the store for Black Friday in protest of lack of compensation for employees working during the holiday.
We visited two Walmart stores on opposite ends of the country — one in Framingham, Massachusetts and one in Bellevue, Washington — to see how the shopping experiences would compare. The store in Bellevue was practically a ghost town, and our experiences at both stores demonstrated how the infamous mayhem of Black Friday is dying down — or at least has moved elsewhere.
Here was our experience:
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