11 O'clock news...TOP STORY..."Trampled at Walmart!!"

[ScreamingMeemie]

For cheap laptop computers. I hope they get sued by all who were there to take advantage and ended up on a floor somewhere. I did the morning after sales once, and it's not worth the discomfort.

[Deja Q]

1. Each walmart would not have had more than 25...

25 at the superstores; the other locations having far fewer, I should think...

WTF are people on to be so animalistic?

They should sue.

They likely won't win.

But people have got to stand up for themselves; the store was being utterly irresponsible.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Apparently this was nationwide...the fights and tramplings.

WallMart will never learn. The one time I went, I got in a fight with a woman over a shopping cart. She obviously needed it more than I. :eyes: :hi:

[GrpCaptMandrake]

17. Wal-Mart has a stated policy of opposing,

to the bitter end, every piece of litigation that comes their way. Some bean-counter somewhere along the way told them they're better off paying X Million Dollars to defend lawsuits than .1 X to pay them. Why? Because the defense costs are written off as "cost of doing business," whereas settlements negatively impact their insurance rates.

The thought process is little different from the well-documented Wal-Mart policy of taking out term life policies on its workers, naming itself as beneficiary. The worker never knows about it, the premiums are written-off as business expenses and when the worker dies, the family's none-the-wiser while Wal-Mart collects the policy amount, which, in turn is a non-taxable event, just as if Wal-Mart had been the bereaved widow of the deceased.

Sometimes I think I'm a reincarnated jungle tribesman. So much of this "modern" crap simply fails to make sense to me.

[Kat45]

3. My cousin went out to buy a game for his kids today.

He was holding the game and some lady came over and snatched it out of his hands! Unbelievable! (Disclosure: I don't know if it was a Walmart or not, but it's the same kind of shit.)

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. People are nuts. My sister in law goes out as if she is part of the

Navy Special Ops unit. she takes a two way radio and she and her sister hit the stores. It's just not for me. Nope, no way. :hi:

[barb162]

14. I know someone who does it with 2 others

One waits in line and the other two scout the stuff out; they went out at 4AM today

[barb162]

18. I know of a person who goes out shopping with another woman

who does that; I think it must be more commonn than I thought

[JI7]

5. i'm not sure

but i assume a lot of these people don't have a lot of money. for them this is HUGE. their chance to get something that many of us already have at low cost.

it's just sad watching the scenes on tv and how walmart just uses people like this.

usually the focus is on the people who go and they are viewed either as selfish, crazy or whatever else for doing what they do. at least that's how the media reports it.

i almost never hear them report on the company and their faults.

[LynneSin]

9. I know - it's a shame they prey on those who make less money

and unfortunately it brings the worst out in people.

[barb162]

15. I think these were doing these fights at other stores too

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. The slant of the news here in Michigan tended to fault the store, BUT

They also showed a whole bunch of people who buy the crap up and then return it because it's "chintzy". :eyes: What do they expect?

[Wapsie B]

6. I can remember that when Care Bears

first came out. What is up with people? Retailers and some of these companies are guilty of preying on consumers baser instincts.

[JI7]

7. you mean in the 80's ?

i was a kid then.i didn't know these things happened back then.

i think my most recent memories of these things happening go back to the tickle me elmo in the 90's. and probably those cabbage patch kids that came out at around the same time where the mouth could move or something. they ended up being a danger to kids because it would pull their hair.

but even then i'm not sure if it was this bad as i'm seeing on tv in more recent years. probably because it's more expensive items now that anyone can use year round rather than just some hard to find kids toys.

[Wapsie B]

10. Yes the 80's.

I remember the cabbage patch kids ordeal too. I don't know if the cost of the item matters at much as any shortage their might be, real or created.

[barb162]

19. or Cabbage Patch dolls

[LynneSin]

8. What kind of village idiots go shopping at 5:00am in the morning

Who the hell cares that I can save an extra $20 on really cheap crap. My sanity and my progressive ideologies are more important!

[NMMNG]

11. I fault Wal-mart for having the obscenly low prices on "loss leaders"

To draw in hoards of people for their Black Friday sales. However I also fault those people who seem to lose all respect for the law and basic rules of human civilization, all over toys, electronics and other such junk. :eyes:

[barb162]

12. Went to the store this morning and it was almost the same at 10:00AM

I walked out; it wasn't worth it

[barb162]

13. the solution is to shop at odd times, not Saturdays or Sundays

but later at night

[barb162]

16. One of the electronics chains was selling laptops for $200

but they only had 15 at each store and people were waiting all night

[barb162]

20. I heard this happened in Michigan and it was super cold

last night and people were waiting in that frigid air all night freezing their butts off. It was in the single digits

[skygazer]

22. It reminds me of malicious reality tv

Like "Bum Fights" or whatever it was, where they pit poor people against each other for five bucks or get a homeless person to do something stupid for money.

Cruel and manipulative. I don't care how good the deal is, I wouldn't take part just on principle.

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. I tried it once....and went out exhausted into a drizzling rain to stand

with a bunch of other people.... It wasn't worth it.

[GirlinContempt]

23. Why do I never hear about this stuff

happening here?
Or, anywhere else?

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. You don't have a t.v.....or read newspapers???

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HOLIDAY_SHOPPING?SITE=MIDTF&SECTION=HOME

"The bargains were so good at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that things got out of hand.

In Cascade Township, east of Grand Rapids, Mich., a woman fell as dozens of people rushed into a store for the 5 a.m. opening. Several stepped on her, and a few became entangled as a man pushed them to the ground to keep them away.



When the rush ended, the woman and a 13-year-old girl suffered minor injuries.

Tempers flared at a Wal-Mart in Orlando, Fla., where a man allegedly cut in line to buy a bargain notebook computer and was wrestled to the ground, according to a video shown by an ABC affiliate, WFTV-TV"

I suppose I should have provided a link??? :shrug:

[GirlinContempt]

27. Oh, no, I just meant

in Canada, sorry I should have been more clear :)

But no, I don't have a TV (at least, not one that gets channels) :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

:hi: Here in the Detroit area, this is a much recorded event every year...almost as hyped as the Thanksgiving Parade.


Gosh, I wish I lived across the river in Windsor. :)

[GirlinContempt]

29. My ex lives in the Detroit area

so I'd hear this kind of stuff from him. Mind boggling. He went to school here for a number of years, I think maybe we broke him ;)

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. It still amazes me that the city with the highest murder rates is right

across the river from one of the most peaceful (crime rate wise) cities on earth. I guess people don't want to pay the toll to commit the crime. :hi:

[tjwash]

24. I came up with a new term for holiday shopping jerks...

Poo Flingers.

[peekaloo]

30. downtrodden

in every sense.