Rabid Black Friday shoppers destroy local Nike outlet The people want their cross-trainers

Addled with the promise of deals on some kicks, shoppers who flocked to the Nike Outlet shop in Tulalip last weekend reduced the store to an apocalyptic hellscape of orange cardboard rubble.

The destruction took off on social media, where witnesses posted videos and photos of shoppers kicking aside shoe boxes and wading through the dystopian wasteland in the Seattle Premium Outlets.

It's like a zombie apocalypse. I feel bad for the people who need to clean this up. #BlackFriday #NikeOutletStore A photo posted by Wannie Rodriguez (@wanniemation) on Nov 25, 2016 at 11:57pm PST

The sale kicked off (pun intended) 8 p.m. Thanksgiving and ran through 10 p.m. Friday. An anonymous employee told Buzzfeed that an estimated 20,000 customers came through the shop.

"I thought there was an earthquake that happened," Seattle resident Larry Downer told BuzzFeed News. "It was unreal."

We hope those retail workers were adequately compensated for cleaning up after the opening of the gates of hell.