Local Bass Pro short 60 workers during Black Friday shopping - WAVE 3
Clarksville, In. (WAVE) - Black Friday shoppers searched stores for deals amid staffing and supply shortages. The Bass Pro shop in Clarksville is short 60 employees on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. In the dark of Friday morning, eager shoppers waited in line at the store until the five a.m. rush began. Bargain hunters streamed in for a solid three minutes, looking for deals on clothes, guns, and fish finders. During the first rush, 528 people came into the store. That's 50 more people than last year, which surprised General Manager Mike Benningfield. "We started our sale earlier, it started on Monday, instead of waiting until Friday. It really spread the sales out, spread the traffic out, and that's helped us out this year," Benningfield said. He said on top of the staffing shortage this holiday season, getting product into the store was a challenge too. "We're sending a lot of things FedEX, UPS, that normally would come on our truck from the ...