At Wal-Mart the savings just don’t stop
We stopped by Wal-Mart yesterday and I spotted this sign announcing a sale on wireless printers, Lexmark Z2420 printers to be exact. Wal-Mart was selling them for $58.88 which is pretty good since Lexmark lists them a $79.99.
Evidently that wasn’t good enough of a savings for Wal-Mart. As the photo shows, the lowered the price from $59.88 to $59.00, a whopping sum of eighty-eight cents.
In case you couldn’t figure that out for yourself, Wal-Mart is nice enough to point this fact out. It’s as if they don’t want to bother you with doing the hard math, they just want you to save some money on a wireless printer.
Eighty-eight cents to be exact.
Circuit City 1949 – 2009
Circuit City is shutting down all 567 of its U.S. stores and will be selling off all their merchandise. At least they will try to. If they were actually good at selling merchandise, they probably wouldn’t be in this situation.
I’m kind of torn on this news in that I have purchased quite a bit of stuff at Circuit City. I’ve probably bought more electronics at Circuit City than Best Buy, Wal-Mart, or Target combined. With that said, the only reason I have ever bought stuff at Circuit City was because I couldn’t find it anywhere else.
I think what really killed Circuit City was that Wal-Mart heavily committed to getting into the high-definition TV business. Circuit City also seemed to go out of their way to hire employees that knew nothing about the products they sold.
Family of man trampled to death sues Walmart
The family of Jdimytai Damour, the man trampled to death at a Long Island area Walmart, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Walmart:
The lawsuit claims that besides failing to provide adequate security for a pre-dawn crowd estimated at 2,000, Wal-Mart “engaged in specific marketing and advertising techniques to specifically attract a large crowd and create an environment of frenzy and mayhem and was otherwise careless, reckless and negligent.”
Not that I didn’t see this coming. I just didn’t think it was going to happen this quickly.
Authorities investigating the case believe that Jdimytai Damour was placed on door opening duty because of his size. He stood 6-foot-5 and weighed 270 pounds. If that is true, it would seems Walmart knew the task of opening the door was going to be a dangerous one.
Walmart also likes to stress the fact that Jdimytai Damour did not actually work for them, but that he was employed by a temp agency. As if that fact makes what happened any better. I think it actually makes it worse. Why would they send someone who doesn’t even work for them to open the front door on the busiest shopping day of the year? I would think this task would be something for the manager to perform, unless of course it was something considered too dangerous to have the manager do.
In that case, send the big black man from the temp agency.
Walmart Black Friday trample death: the photos
The New York Daily News has posted photos taken at the Green Acres Mall Walmart Long Island, New York where Black Friday shoppers trampled and killed a Walmart employee. A pregnant woman was also injured. She lost her unborn baby.
It’s pretty clear from the photos that Walmart had a problem before the doors were ever opened. People were pressed right up against the doors. The manager should have done something instead of simply telling an unlucky employee to open the doors.
By looking at the photos, I’m not even sure the people at front of the mod could have stopped if they wanted to. There is a large crowd off people behind them who most likely pushing the mob forward. If they were to stop, they most likely would have been trampled on too.
Walmart employee trampled to death by Black Friday shoppers
A Walmart employee was trampled to death at a Long Island, New York Walmart as he was attempting to open the doors of the store this morning to allow Black Friday shoppers to enter. From the New York Daily News:
Witnesses said the surging throngs of shoppers knocked the man down. He fell and was stepped on. As he gasped for air, shoppers ran over and around him.
“He was bum-rushed by 200 people,” said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. “They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too…I literally had to fight people off my back.”
Nassau County Police are still investigating and would not confirm the witness accounts. Police did say there were several injuries but weren’t more specific.
The article also mentions that a pregnant woman at the same store was trampled and as a result, lost her baby.
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