Its not brutal its stupid and ridiculous, A large man with glasses and a smirk on his face knocked my wife down trying to shove her out of the way to get to some cookware at walmart last night , she just had a lumpectomy 2 weeks ago , he hurt her badly and she was telling him the whole time he was hurting her , he thought it was funny. People like him should not be allowed to shop and shove people around and hurt them , thats a little ridiculous. Its not the end of time its a sale , not worth hurting someone over or you getting stomped by the womans husband for hurting her . Come on people act civilized instead of like some third world Idiots. Now wheres all the a holes who don,t like what I think ?

Heard a young black man telling his buddies he was getting a WII if he had to put a choke hold on the people in front of him or kick them out of the way , sounds like this crap is outta control just like our country and the Idiots in it. They need a large dose of manners and common sense knocked in to them or Locked up for their actions and threats

People are nuts to wait outside a store for hours and fight for "stuff". Best buy, Target, and Wal-Mart started offering their black friday deals online Thursday morning at 1 am with free shipping. I logged onto the internet (from the comfort of my bed) and bought everything I wanted at 4 am Thursday morning. By noon on Thursday, I had received shipping confirmation emails with tracking numbers for all my purchases.

Great perspective Calhoun. But, what was the effect to your local community on sales taxes? Can you tell us more?

Charles, I will not hold you responsible for you fiscal ignorance. When you purchase online from a store that has physical presence within the state, the purchaser (me) pays all tax (state, county, and local) just as if I had purchased it in a brick and mortar store. So in response to your ill-equipped knowledge (or lack thereof) of online purchasing, I paid 9% sales tax on all my purchases!

Hey , tbone, that must have been a redneck with a license plate beginning with 42 on his white pickup truck.

Thank you Calhoun, for the obvious, albeit testy response. While that is the rule, it often doesn't work right and is not well regulated. That rule is only typically enforced when the alleged location you buy from is within 70 miles. AN EXAMPLE: A recent purchase from Dell Computers charged Huntsville tax - Huntsville being the alledged point of sale. I allege the point of sale as "Decatur". The actual multiple shipments of computer components came frome areas including Texas and Colorado.The tax charged was Huntsville 's tax. Why should I pay Huntsville tax if I initiated the call from Decatur and parts were shipped from out of state? By the way, you answered with the non-possessive form of "you" instead of "your"...or was that like my dyslexic fingers and no spell check!?

well if you can save $10 (give or take) & avoid getting kicked, shoved, physically run over, dirty looks, coming in physical contact with people you have no idea what they have, where they have been, or havent bathed,calhoun,,, im with ya, makes a whole lot more sense ( xspecially than letting people work &/or live, in decatur & send weekly paychecks elsewhere. when decatur can fix that, THEN i will be concerned where my holiday tax dollars are going.

put a limit on how many one person can SNATCH . ridiculous for one person to grab 15 sets of sheets just because they didnt have anything better to do than stand in a line for hours at a time to get 1st & front. its sad. & funny to know people really do this.

@ Charles...quick ? for you...why did it matter if he paid Decatur sales tax or not????? If I can get on and order something without paying this ridiculous 9% sales tax, I would! Let's be honest, what exactly has that 9% tax provided the city of Decatur? Roads flood, roads have pot holes, and the city is paying a city manager over $100,000/year! Now where in your mind does this make sense? Just wondering since your my city councilman maybe you can answer..