You guys see THIS craziness?
From the article:
A Wal-Mart worker was killed Friday when “out-of-control” shoppers desperate for bargains broke down the doors at a 5 a.m. sale. Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers shouted angrily and kept shopping when store officials said they were closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.
At least four other people, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, were taken to hospitals for observation or minor injuries, and the store in Valley Stream on Long Island closed for several hours before reopening.
Shoppers stepped over the man on the ground and streamed into the store. When told to leave, they complained that they had been in line since Thursday morning.
Nassau police said about 2,000 people were gathered outside the store doors at the mall about 20 miles east of Manhattan. The impatient crowd knocked the man, identified by police as Jdimytai Damour of Queens, to the ground as he opened the doors, leaving a metal portion of the frame crumpled like an accordion.
“This crowd was out of control,” said Nassau police spokesman Lt. Michael Fleming. He described the scene as “utter chaos.”
Aight, that’s just silly.
No shopping deal is worth dying over, especially not for anything that Wal-Mart has!
Even worse, you gotta despise the Wal-Mart PR person who managed to slip in their best deals into the NY Post article:
Items on sale at the Wal-Mart store included a $798 Samsung 50-inch Plasma HDTV, a Bissel Compact Upright Vaccum for $28, a Samsung 10.2 megapixel digital camera for $69 and DVDs such as “The Incredible Hulk” for $9.
So to counter such ugliness, the TIMstore will not have any discounts…these are the only “deals”:
Shop online from the TIM store between Nov 26th to Nov 30th and receive the following offers:
Purchase any DVD (PennyStocking, PennyStocking Part Deux, ShortStocking, TIMraw ) and receive 1 FREE month of TIMalerts !
Purchase any combo package and receive 3 FREE months of TIMalerts!
Purchase any combo package over $1,000 and receive FREE shipping to anywhere in the world!
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