Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for November 27, 2009

Don’t do that, Pam! Stun grenades might fry the electronics. Lob them into women’s wear - that’s where they’re most needed!

I love a good plan!

ACK! Use tear gas in electronics - it won’t damage anything!

I would have said use LRAD, but nobody would notice on Black Friday.

Now that is how to plan a shopping campaign.

What is plan B?

Ans. that was plan B.

“I love it when a plan comes together…”

Doctor Toon: I do not know that answer, but I’ll bet those are the same people that when driving, get into the LEFT lane, when then sign clearly says “Left Lane CLOSED AHEAD”. Then they cause that huge merging backup.

What is WRONG with those people?

Doctor Toon: Herds of shoppers aren’t known for thinking. Sellers and advertisers are very happy about that.

Do that running with the bulls in Spain first. Then you’ll be ready for BLACK FRIDAY shopping.

Doctor Toon, the answer to the first question is easy. People buy things at the last minute because that’s when they realize that they must have them. Wouldn’t that be true by definition? :))

Wait a minute. Strike that. Let me invoke a little Jungian psych here. My personality type is ENFP (as the famous MBTI or Myers-Briggs test would summarize its order of cognitive processes), and I and my fellow Ps by nature tend to wait until the last minute to do whatever’s really needful. In shopping I try to avoid that, and pull rather on the “flip side” of being a P (striking while the iron is hot, spontaneously).

I’ll bet you’re one of the J’s (e.g., INTJ): someone who prefers to plan well ahead of time. Well, each approach has its strengths and its weaknesses (the weakness of the J approach being a potential lack of flexibility).

Why do people drive into closed left lanes? I have no idea.

So the answer to the question is, YES.