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[Re: Kristel Smart ]
#218118 - 11/30/2008 04:43 PM |
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Incredible. People never cease to amaze me. It's sad that someone los their life because of other peoples greed. I hate shopping unless I have to and I think that Black Friday is ridiculous. Yeah there are plenty of good deals at all stores that day, but if you think about it, you can find good deals on things until Christmas Eve if you really tried. I like to do my holiday shopping online.
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Re: :mad: WalMart ThugMob
[Re: Kristel Smart ]
#218119 - 11/30/2008 04:47 PM |
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I could not believe it, when I heard it on the news. How tragic and sad.  I cannot believe people these days, down right scary!
Since my children have grown, Christmas shopping doesn't hold the same appeal, no urgency whatsoever. In fact, I have a hard time getting motivated to shop these days.
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[Re: Janet Koehler ]
#218137 - 11/30/2008 09:00 PM |
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Wal-Mart pays people a fair wage and has good prices. Their practices aren't any different from most retail giants. My local Wal-Mart hires more foreigners(who hardly speak english) than locals which sucks. I shop there all the time because their prices are good on most stuff. If I have to find something it's a PITA to go find someone who speaks English but then I have a reason to go complain to the manager or corporate. It balances itself out. Trampling somebody is ridiculous. People are desperate this year. I think the economy crashing was an eventuality. People are spending only what they make now. Wow! What a concept! Lenders are only letting people have loans they can realistically pay back. I call that progress.
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Re: :mad: WalMart ThugMob
[Re: Cathy Goessman ]
#218141 - 11/30/2008 09:45 PM |
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It is the store's negligence for not adequately planning for crowd control. It is criminally stupid to allow a mob to line up in a way that they can push through the doorway like a battering ram.
A crowd can be controlled by forcing them to line up single file, in a controled serpentine (line weaves back and forth) in order to break the momentum of their movement. And why were people pushing shopping carts throught the door?!
Wal Mart should know better. The people involved in this mob have no ability to control anything.
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Re: :mad: WalMart ThugMob
[Re: Cathy Goessman ]
#218143 - 11/30/2008 09:47 PM |
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Their practices aren't any different from most retail giants.
It's hard to compare Wal-Mart to any ordinary "retail giant." Wal-Mart is the world's largest company.
Have you read The Wal-Mart Effect?
It might surprise you.
It's a pretty even-handed treatment of the subject, I think, and it still troubled me. A lot.
http://www.walmarteffectbook.com/excerpts.html
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[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#218146 - 11/30/2008 10:03 PM |
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[Re: Tracy Collins ]
#218150 - 11/30/2008 11:10 PM |
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It is the store's negligence for not adequately planning for crowd control. It is criminally stupid to allow a mob to line up in a way that they can push through the doorway like a battering ram.
A crowd can be controlled by forcing them to line up single file, in a controled serpentine (line weaves back and forth) in order to break the momentum of their movement. And why were people pushing shopping carts throught the door?!
Wal Mart should know better. The people involved in this mob have no ability to control anything.
I vehemently disagree. This completely disregards the concept that individuals have responsibility for their own actions. Walmart did have a method to line people up: it's called a DOOR. And we see how those SAVAGES tore it down.
It's events like this that really make me lose hope in humanity. How something like this can happen in a civilized society is beyond comprehension. Watch Americans turn into total SAVAGES just so save a few bucks. Pathetic.
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[Re: Kurt Smith ]
#218166 - 12/01/2008 09:21 AM |
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It is the store's negligence for not adequately planning for crowd control. It is criminally stupid to allow a mob to line up in a way that they can push through the doorway like a battering ram.
A crowd can be controlled by forcing them to line up single file, in a controled serpentine (line weaves back and forth) in order to break the momentum of their movement. And why were people pushing shopping carts throught the door?!
Wal Mart should know better. The people involved in this mob have no ability to control anything.
I vehemently disagree. This completely disregards the concept that individuals have responsibility for their own actions. Walmart did have a method to line people up: it's called a DOOR. And we see how those SAVAGES tore it down.
It's events like this that really make me lose hope in humanity. How something like this can happen in a civilized society is beyond comprehension. Watch Americans turn into total SAVAGES just so save a few bucks. Pathetic.
I agree with Kurt here.
We, as individuals have the right to control ourselves. And, this is one of those times.
The whole "gotta get it first" mentality that was use by all those people going through that door....first of all it was GREED driven and second of all, they must have forgotten what the TRUE meaning of Christmas is all about.
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[Re: Carol Boche ]
#218171 - 12/01/2008 09:53 AM |
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...they must have forgotten what the TRUE meaning of Christmas is all about.
YES! A voice of reason! I think too many people think of this season as a shopping frenzy, when it really ought to be more about family and friends.
We are pooling the majority of our "Christmas money" so that those of us in the north can rent a big van to drive ourselves (and assorted dogs) to our parent's place in the south. Our gift to ourselves is spending the holiday together. I'll take that over a shopping frenzy any day. That and a Leerburg gift certificate, and all is goodness 
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Re: :mad: WalMart ThugMob
[Re: Kristel Smart ]
#218198 - 12/01/2008 01:37 PM |
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I agree completely! This should be a time for what matters most, but for many it is the value of things and not life. This is the reason my family and I have made it tradition not to spend money for Christmas. Instead we find ways to do things together as a family without spending... Which is a challenge. And it's turned out to be the best time of the year for us! 
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