"It looked like an earthquake just rocked the place," Larry Downer told ABC13.
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That perhaps is the perfect summation to what went down inside a Nike Factory Store at the Seattle Premium Outlets. In a viral social media post, Downer captured some of the moments from inside the store. A sea of orange boxes and people stumbling through them metaphorically represent the start of a chaotic, yet welcomed, holiday shopping season.
"We walked in and it was nuts," Downer said.
He says he went to the store around 8:30pm on Black Friday in Tulalip, Washington to purchase a pair of basketball shoes for his son.
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"I don't shop on Black Friday," Downer said. "I never have."
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He says when he walked inside, the floors were covered with boxes and shoes scattered everywhere.
In fact, the pair of LeBron James shoes he purchased was a game of "cat and mouse." One shoe was inside the box and the other was nowhere to be found. After a short perusal through multiple aisles, Downer says they were able to locate the other shoe -- you guessed it -- in another aisle.
Hopefully the next time you're down an aisle, this story reminds you to treat the store as if its your own.
Someone will thank you for it.