Black Friday

[MattnJax]

Black Friday took on a whole new meaning today with a few violent incidents around the country.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/28/black.friday.violence/index.html

Horrible news. Especially the incident at Wal-Mart in NYC.


Has anyone taken part in Black Friday around Jax? Is it this chaotic?

[jbm32206]

It's disgusting and I really wish the stores would stop such practices that clearly bring out the worst in people. Why don't they just have to discounts for a couple of days, instead of in such a limited time frame that results in chaos. I hope the police nab the sick bastards that did this and charge them. I also hope the man's family will sue Walmart

[BridgeTroll]

A sad commentary on our consumerist society...

[jbm32206]

Indeed....some things bring out the best in people...and stuff like that, brings out the worst

[Coolyfett]

I work in retail  .... its not a fun day. Thats all I have to say.

[uptowngirl]

I just read where they are looking at the video to charge people.. that will be tough, but I hope they can because this is just stupid. I am shocked at people....

[jbm32206]

I hope they can find who did it also....those who were responsible need to be charged and convicted

[MattnJax]

A sad commentary on our consumerist society...

Couldn't have said it better.

[MattnJax]

I just read where they are looking at the video to charge people.. that will be tough, but I hope they can because this is just stupid. I am shocked at people....

Yeah it will be tough. I saw on the news that it would be hard to prosecute anyone because the people in the front were being pushed by the people in the back. Wal-Mart though, should definitely be held liable. The saddest thing I saw was when they were taking his body out on a stretcher to the ambulance. People were just casually walking out of the store with their over-sized bags in hand, and showed what appeared to be not a care in the world to what they had just caused. Truely saddening.