Surely everyone was astonished by the news:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...4_shop290.html
of the young employee in the New York Walmart being trampled to death at work this past Friday morning. I think Black Friday and our savage consumerism mindset is rather barbaric. I've never been less in the mood to "go buy stuff" than this year. I find this phenomenon to be a national embarrassment. Seriously, does this kind of thing happen in other countries?
The 2008 incident was not the first Black Friday trampling incident to happen at a Walmart....
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/30/national/main586013.shtml?source=search_story
Bah...humbug!
[This message has been edited by Anne Bryant-Hamon (edited December 02, 2008).]