Retail Workers Share Their Black Friday Horror Stories

Someone on AskReddit asked for retail workers to share their worst Black Friday horror stories. Our general takeaway from all these stories of Black Friday madness, is that we all might be served best by staying far away from stores and their testy, rage-friendly customers on the infamous discount day. 

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