Black Friday Laptops at Wal-Mart
Ironically, I found myself at the Wal-Mart (in Copperfield near Cypress, TX) this morning to see how this would all turn out. What I found was close to 40 people waiting around the electronics section of the store knowing nothing more than “we have some $378 HP laptops and you can’t have them until 5:00 AM.” According to sources, there was only one palette of notebook computers which would surely cause mayhem when the 40+ people began rioting. After figuring I wouldn’t be one of the few to get one of these subpar laptops at a subpar price, I decided to leave. A friend of mine stuck around a store in San Antonio, TX and said they had about the same situation just before the manager said the laptops would be coming out of a specific door, which caused more havoc as the truck load of people crammed into this cramped doorway waiting for the stockboy to trigger the train wreck that would be. It was just that as people’s facads fell and the worst in people came out, throwing each other out of the way, pushing, shoving and behaving like savages. These are the parents, folks! How can we expect our children to grow up any different if this is the example they are getting from society? Unfortunately, Jason said he saw some children there at the store who got to witness this chaos firsthand. I too saw children at the Wal-Mart I was at and it was 3:00 AM!!! There is a time and place for children, and it is NOT Wal-Mart at 3:00 AM. I didn’t witness these children during the mad rush because I left around 4:00 AM. My own safety is worth another $200. For anyone who was injured, go after Wal-Mart. Their ridiculous attempt at organization was the main cause of this craziness. They could have given out numbers, used a lottery system, formed a line, or anything other than what they did.
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