None of the things you see currently in boutiques will be available in the coach outlets, that simply isn't true - maybe in 3 or 4 season the surpluss will but nothing now.
Did anyone venture out? If I even go to the outlets, I go when they have their F&F sale, it's always better than Black Friday.
Like Didn't Mean To said, I wasn't talking about the outlets... but the military exchanges. They get everything from JAX, and they are discounted pretty well for us military folk (so much so that I never needed to use my PCE cards).
I did go to the outlet this year, and got a whole bunch of awesome stuff. I was second in line at 10 pm so it wasn't bad at all. I just went in, got the stuff I wanted, paid, then dealt with the "madness" at the other stores.