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The first pepper spray incident of Black Friday?
Topic Started: Nov 25 2011, 02:19 AM (97 Views)
jon-nyc
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Now, where will the first death by trampling occur?


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/at-wal-mart-in-porter-ranch-mom-i-was-just-pepper-sprayed.html

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George K
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Some comments from around the blogosphere:

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Matthew Lopez went to the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch on Thursday night for the Black Friday sale but instead was caught in a pepper-spray attack by a woman who authorities said was “competitive shopping.”
Competitive shopping” … otherwise known as “assault and battery.”

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Lopez said customers were already in the store when a whistle signaled the start of the Black Friday sale at 10 p.m., sending shoppers hurtling in search of deeply discounted items.
Here’s a hint to retailers everywhere. If you want your customers to behave in a rational and dignified manner, don’t treat your store like a football field with 1,000 different teams playing all at once. If you do, then this is probably the inevitable result

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Stores encourage this kind of combat shopping with limited-time loss leaders, silly deadlines, and now whistle-blowing to release the Kraken, as it were. Rational people don’t put themselves through these conditions to find a couple of cheap deals, and the spectacle makes a mockery out of the entire reason we shop for gifts at this time of year. I’m pretty certain that the message of the season isn’t “Every man for himself!”
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