Wal-Mart to Pay Victims of Stampede

[Libertas1776]

Source: Newsday

Mega-retailer Wal-Mart will pay an unspecified sum to victims hurt in a stampede that left a security guard trampled to death at a Valley Stream store during an after-Thanksgiving sale.

The Nassau County district attorney's office is expected to announce the agreement with Wal-Mart Wednesday, more than five months after a security guard was killed by stampeding shoppers on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, when stores typically flood with people looking for bargains...Damour's family, as well as several people who were caught up in the melee, filed lawsuits against Wal-Mart. The chain has said it had hired additional security personnel, staffed the store with more employees and erected barricades at the Green Acres Mall location in anticipation of a crowd.



Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-liwal0612734959may05,0,2506510.story

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"The chain has said it had hired additional security personnel, staffed the store with more employees and erected barricades at the Green Acres Mall location in anticipation of a crowd."

My ass they did, otherwise this poor guy wouldn't be dead.

[KittyWampus]

1. Hoping this will be a prime motivator in getting Walmart to change it's sales pitch during Xmas

[rcrush]

2. You can tell they are lying when they said

They added extra security personnel and staffed the store with more employees.

Walmart doesnt do any of that lol.

[liberal N proud]

3. I have seen those crowds at Wal-Mart on the day after Black Friday

It is a wonder more incidents have not happened in the past.

Unless Wal-Mart does something about crowd control, this will happen again and again and other stores.

[tomm2thumbs]

4. I'm surprised they didn't push to give people 'store credit' for their troubles

'oh goodie, now I can go get that big screen TV they have on sale....'

[gratuitous]

6. Now why was that my first thought, too?

It can't be that great minds think alike, because I'm deficient on that score.

[bobshin]

5. Wonder if part of the offer was lifetime reserved spots in the front of the line...

of black friday sales.:eyes: