Question of the Day: Who Is Most to Blame For the Walmart Trampling Incident? [Question Of The Day] (1)
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Black Friday horror stories are inevitable, but nothing can compare to the trampling death of a 34 year old Walmart employee. But who is really to blame? Let us know—and feel free to vent. Oh, and to make matters worse, the police investigation of the surveillance tape is not turning up any leads—so the people involved in the incident will most likely get away scott free. Who is Most to Blame for the Walmart Trampling ...
Black Friday Sugar Rush Won't Last For Retailers [Black Friday] (1)
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While Black Friday revenues were up from last year, retailers are just getting a quick high. The crash starts tomorrow. On the one hand, shoppers took advantage of new and expanded deals and doorbusters and bought on average of 7% more. On the other, for many it marked the end of their holiday shopping, rather than the beginning. In addition, the discounts were so steep, and stacked on already marked-down prices, it seems likely that ...
Video Proof that Black Friday Turns People Into Animals [Science] (2)
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Above: a video of a bunch of dealcrazed shoppers decimating a pallet of Xbox 360 Guitar Hero bundles at Walmart on Black Friday. Below: a time lapse video of a bunch of ants eating a dead gecko. I don't think any further analysis is necessary, do you? [Kotaku]
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Kreg said:
I am somewhat surprised, and not surprised at the same time, at the way people act during these sales. Amazing.
Cyber Monday What Is It? (1)
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HAPPY CYBER MONDAY! Hope you all had a safe trip to Grams house and a Healthy Happy Thanksgiving. Did you find all the best deals on Black Friday? Because Today, Monday December 1st, is the first day back to work after Black Friday. All across America wallets are opened and credit cards are being removed. Current estimates say that 56% of workers with internet access, 70+ million people, will spend more time today shopping online ...
Watch People Devour A Stack Of 360 Consoles [Black Friday] (2)
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You like the looks of that 360/Guitar Hero Black Friday deal? Not as much as these guys did. Oh Black Friday, bringing out the most desperate in people... [via X3F]
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Tom said:
God bless America
…The 2008 Holiday Gift Guides are here? (1)
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Black Friday has come and gone and now Cyber Monday is upon us, but if you still can’t decide what to get that special someone this holiday season, then take a look through this list of gift guides for some great ideas on what to get every man, woman, child and yes, even pet in your life. (And if you know of any other gift guides that you’d like to add, just put them in ...
In Blackest Friday (3)
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Just between you and me, I know this comic isn’t actually going up on Friday. One could say it was closer to the subsequent Sunday and one would be totally correct. One could also say that I’ve spent the last 3 days in a gravy and stuffing induced hybernation which would also be intensely accurate. I had a comic planned for Black Friday some weeks ago that involved a zombie movie-esque scene where retail workers ...
How many human lives is a flat panel TV worth? (2)
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By Andrea DicksonI think that the iPhone is a neato gadget. I couldn't believe that people stood in line for them. The final Star Wars movie was decent - I waited for the DVD. Some people camped outside the damn theater. There are very few things that are important enough, to me, to stand in line to purchase. This is partly because I don't like people, and thus try to avoid milling among them for ...
In Memory of the Trampled Wal-Mart Worker: A Contemplative Rant (1)
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Here’s some unhappy post-Thanksgiving news: Wal-Mart Store Employee Trampled to Death by Black Friday Shoppers. It’s a grim story. Not only did frenzied shoppers trample an employee, but they just kept on stepping over his body once he fell. They pushed fellow employees who were trying to help him out of the way. And then they got angry when the store closed, in the wake of the poor man’s death. Do we need any more ...
Black Friday Horror Stories (8)
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While nothing can match the horror of workers getting killed by stupid mobs and shootings in the middle of a Toys R Us, we keep receiving horror tales about other Black Fridays gone wrong. The biggest one is about how CompUSA/Tigerdirect online "sale"—the one with the Sony Vaio TT with a $5,000 discount was apparently a total disaster, according to readers. Update: A guy from the CompUSA "sale" wrote to us. Readers keep posting their ...
Wal-Mart Worker Trampled To Death on Black Friday (3)
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How crazy are people on Black Friday? Are the deals so good that they would trample someone to death? Here’s a tragic Wal-Mart stampede that left one worker dead and got several people (including a pregnant woman) injured: The Black Friday stampede plunged the Valley Stream outlet into chaos, knocking several employees to the ground and sending others scurrying atop vending machines to avoid the horde. [...] "He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Wal-Mart ...
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Bill said:
I can't believe that we have traded a human life for $100 off the latest GPS system...may God help us.
2 Dead In Toys 'R Us Black Friday Shooting [Black Friday] (3)
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The floors of a Palm Desert, CA Toys R' Us ran red on Black Friday after two gunslinging representatives from "two groups of individuals that have a dispute with each other" opened fire. [AP] (Thanks to Tim!)
I’d Trample You to Save a Buck Or Two (4)
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It wasn’t a banner day for Consumerism. Black Friday — the retail kickoff of the holiday season — is always a bit of a nuthouse. Marketers spend months devising ways to get you in front of a cashier, and early morning “doorbuster” specials have become an after-Thanksgiving tradition. All it takes is an advertising budget and a few loss leader markdowns to get shoppers queued up before dawn. Or, in the case one Long Island ...
Wal-Mart employee trampled to death on Black Friday: why we’re just as unevolved as you fear. (2)
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I haven’t read a story that makes me this angry for quite some time. This is what sociologists talk about when people lose every vestige of who they are for the sake of consumerism and the need to put things above all else. As evolved as we think we are, this is what we’re capable of in our absolute, whitewashed mindlessness. At least the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, as despicable as they are, are thought ...
Check your Black Friday receipts! (1)
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I had about $40 worth of mispricing at the register. One was at Target for $24. Their advertised movies came up regular price. Kmart was about a $13 overcharge. Kmarts was on Joe Boxer boxers and tees. So, make sure to check your receipts and hold on to your ads.
Mike Todd’s life in retail. (I’m avoiding the mall... (1)
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Black Friday Giveaways (part 10): the LG Prada phone (1)
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We've decided to end the Engadget Black Friday Giveaways with a blast from the past. Remember this guy? It seems like only a week ago that Apple was being accused of ripping off this LG and Prada collaboration with the iPhone. Ah... memories. Well, you can at least still impress some folks down at the local discotheque with this one -- just make sure no one accidentally pours a vodka and Red Bull on it.We'll ...
The Blackest Friday [Photo Gallery] (1)
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So yes, today is Black Friday, the day when big stores roll out big, one-day-only bargains in the hopes of setting a high sales bar for the all-important Holiday Season (Christmas! And, to a much lesser extent, Chanukkah!) Good savings are especially urgent this year, with the economy in the crapper and everyone needing to buy things for as cheap as possible (just short of not buying it at all. That would be ludicrous!) Every ...
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Alexa.com is not always considered the best source for traffic statistics, but it is the only site out there that can give us a snapshot of traffic this past week. I've compared Amazon to eBay in these graphs and the comparison is for the last 7 days through Black Friday.Alexa.com ReachAlexa PageviewsAlexa RankMy sales were up big on Amazon on Black Friday, several of my associates who sell on eBay did not get a sales ...Shared by Adam Nash (10)Contribute commentThis Week in Netbooks (12) permalink
Did your Black Friday suck? If so, tell the gang over a notebooks.com and you could win a Lenovo S10 netbook. It’s simple, really. Answer one of these two questions in the comments of this post: 1) What items did you buy on Black Friday and what did you have to do to get them? 2) Why did your Black Friday suck? What didn’t you get that you wish you could have? …and they’ll pick ...Shared by gadgetboy (11)Contribute commentMy Life In A Cube (4) permalink
Mike Todd’s life in retail. (I’m avoiding the mall today like the bubonic plague.) -SShared by Darran (0)Contribute comment
