Saturday, November 29, 2008

Surely this will be Wal-Mart's fault...

Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death
"Some shoppers who had seen the stampede said they were shocked. One of them, Kimberly Cribbs of Queens, said the crowd had acted like “savages.” Shoppers behaved badly even as the store was being cleared, she recalled.

“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’ ” Ms. Cribbs told The Associated Press. “They kept shopping.”"
This is the article on page 16 of today's Times. The front page has genius Stephanie Rosenbloom telling us:
In a sign of consumer desperation amid a bleak economy, the annual rite of retailing known as Black Friday turned chaotic and even deadly, as predawn shoppers scrambled for holiday bargains.
Once again, we will most likely find a way to make sure that the uncivilized wretches who killed this poor man are never brought to justice; and that a maximum payout from a corporate scapegoat keeps the legal profession busy. If times were good, do you think this would not have happened?

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