Black Friday 2014: Watch women fight over Victoria’s Secret lingerie and the …

 

These extraordinary videos show just how far some people are prepared to go to grab a bargain.

The clip above shows a fight breaking out between women over Victoria Secret lingerie on Black Friday, while one below shows a man being TASERED during a bid to snap up some savings.

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The lingerie fight video, uploaded to YouTube, was recorded at a shopping mall in Maryland this time last year. A 17-year-old shopper told police that a fellow shopper ‘poked her in the eye’ in Annapolis Mall, sparking the huge scrap.

The clip shows a black woman, on the left, suddenly lash out at a white woman on the right before an all-out brawl ensues.

 

Stunned shoppers look on as what appears to be staff try to separate the two ladies going at it.

The white woman is knocked to the floor and can be seen putting her hand up in the air to defend herself.

The video was uploaded to Black Friday Fights, a YouTube profile set up seemingly just to show similar shopping scuffles from the UK and the US.

In the clip below, a man can be seen held down by police officers at a Wal-Mart supermarket in the US.

Towards the end of the footage you can hear the noise of a Taser going off as other bargain hunters simply stroll by.

 

In another video below a man in the States is shown shoving a woman just to get a bargain TV, again at a Wal-Mart  branch.

In the background a woman can be repeatedly heard yelling ‘Oh my god’ as a scrum ensues.

Black Friday originated in the US but has only arrived in the UK in the last few years.

Fights and overcrowding are not uncommon during the American spending spree, and there have been reports in previous years of people actually being KILLED on what is one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

For a complete guide to Black Friday, click here and for live updates on all the days Black Friday news, click here.

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When It Comes To The Lingerie You Choose, Dye Jobs Actually Matter More …

It’s a good thing Karlie Kloss dyed her hair from blonde to red this week, and not just because it looks great on her. The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show is coming up soon, and apparently blondes don’t sell lingerie.

(Related: Karlie Kloss’ New Red Hair Proves Everyone Looks Sexier As A Redhead)

While I don’t think this will hurt Candice Swanepoel‘s career any — she already got to wear the $10 million, ruby-encrusted Fantasy Bra last year – according to FastCompany, a new lingerie start-up called Adore Me has been going through a pretty in-depth analytical process with its catalogue models, and it turns out customers just don’t respond very well to blondes.

Adore Me has been mixing up its images so different customers see different pictures, and then analyzing the sales patterns to see what models and poses the customers prefer. The company says the pictures make a huge difference when it comes to lingerie sales. A model posed with a hand on her hip, for example, does not produce nearly as many sales as the same model in the same lingerie posed with her hand by her head.

“Picture has a huge impact on sale when it comes to fashion,” said Adore Me CEO Hermand-Waiche. “You buy the product not only for what it looks like, but for the emotions that the product conveys to you and that you want to convey through he product.”

And customers reportedly play favorites with the models. If they see a bra on a model they like, they’re more likely to buy that bra than a similar bra, even if the other bra is on sale. But of all the models tested, the CEO says no blonde has sold well. Lingerie customers just seem to prefer brunettes across the board.

Click through to the Adore Me site and you’ll see a lot of brunettes playing with their hair–those things reportedly make us want to buy lingerie. While they can figure out what makes us want to buy things, they can’t use the same model in the same pose for every bra on the website. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t going to use the winning combination whenever they can.

H/T Racked

Photo: Getty

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