Thanksgiving and Then What?
I worship those who donate their time and money to help others. But I have no words for the concept of shoppers trampling a store employee and fellow shoppers to make the most of Black Friday.
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What if they gave a Black Friday special and no one showed up? How about we all just get a grip and boycott these ridiculous sales events?
It's all such BS..... consumers are completely manipulated into thinking the supply is scarce so "I'd better get mine while the getting is good".
Come on, people! Isn't it time we stopped being ignorant consumers and wise up. Besides, don't we have enough "stuff" already? We're drowning in "stuff".
My family had a "gift-free" Christmas this year and we all loved it! The whole Christmas season was a most relaxing and freeing experience, just knowing there were no gifts to shop for. We all decided we'd do it again next year.
Humbug on Wal-Mart any day of the year!
Boycott sales events? I guess consumers should just go to stores that aren't having sales.?? Customers manipulated into thinking supply is scarce? How is that? Calling customers "ignorant"... Why, because they go shop when there are sales? People have "enough stuff" already... ? So people shouldn't buy presents for Christmas anymore? The millions of people who go to Walmart every week shouldn't be going at all because they don't need or couldn't use anything there in the first place?
Walmart at fault?
1) begin planning months before the sales event
... Walmart has sales events all the time.
2) make sure enough trained employees are present
...Trained to do what? ...open the front door? What training do you need for that? And since when doesn't Walmart have enough employees? They have employees everywhere.
4) communicate with waiting customers with signs and announcements
...Aren't there always signs and announcements in the Walmart entrance or just inside?
5) set up barricades or rope lines that reduce the risk of a crowd surge or stampede
...So Walmart has to assume their customers are a bunch of violent animals? What about the tens of thousands of Walmart's that don't have such problems?
6) hand out wristbands or numbered tickets as customers arrive
...Why?
7) allow customers to enter in small groups
....How is that possible? The customers trampled the guy at the front door right after unlocking the door.
8) have automated external defibrillators, and trained staff, on hand.
.... So all retail stores in America need to have defibrillators on hand on case an angry mod just happens to burst through their front doors at some point?
Aren't the people near the front of the line that actually did the trampling going to take any blame?
If it were up to you, nothing would be done. And we will all await another tragedy.
One problem with government today is that they always feel they need to do something, even when doing nothing or using simple common sense is the best and most efficient answer. We don't need to create new laws, new mandates, new training programs, new punishments, etc every single time something bad happens to somebody in the country. Things happen. Life entails risk each and every day. That Walmart worker should just have been more careful with opening that front door. That's all. I sure wouldn't have done it with that aggressive mob up against the door.