A lot of other stores have orderly ways of handling the shoppers, like giving out wristbands and assigning numbers to people, this avoids the free-for-alls that you see at Wal-Mart.
I don’t do Black Friday, haven’t done it since I was a kid and had no choice in the matter. I remember those crowds and the pushing and the shoving and couldn’t understand why the people were so mean and nasty.
Macy’s Herald Square mid 1960s.
Not all Walmarts have stampedes and riots either so i suspect the problem is with the mob, not the retailer.
Today CNBC gave out the remarkable statistic that of the 45% of the consumer public shopping today, 85% of them are shopping for themselves.
These aren’t people buying gifts. These are people soothing their own greed.