im a 911 dispatcher that works nights and every year that i worked thanksgiving-after things quieted down- we would all go through the sales flyers and decide which stores to go to in the morning and compare prices-we really had fun doing it-we would work the same days for years in a row and it became a tradition
then we would get calls to send the police for crowd control - some even at 5 am-we would know to avoid those stores-especially if the line was around the building
it was like a game-something fun to do after some of us missed the holiday with our family