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So I assume everyone has heard about this horrible incident in New York. A temporary worker at a Wal-Mart was trampled to death, and a woman suffered a miscarriage.

What can you say about this? Disgusting? Shocking? Not all together surprising? Actually, what surprises me is that things like this don’t happen more often. I’m a bit surprised it happened THIS year, because consumer confidence is so far down and supposedly people aren’t supposed to be shopping as much. Whatever – it’s very, very sad and disturbing and a really depressing commentary on society. Especially the part where the shoppers in that particular Wal-Mart booed and continued shopping when informed the store would be closing because SOMEONE HAD BEEN TRAMPLED TO DEATH.

I did not go to any stores on “Black Friday.” This whole concept of Black Friday is a stupid gimmick anyway. It’s right up there with Sweetest Day as far as retailer-induced consumerism. I did order one item online, a wireless SD card for my camera from Buy.com. But I’m not sure if it was even a Black Friday deal, or just on sale. Hopefully, no one will be trampled or suffer a miscarriage in the effort to ship my online purchase to me next week.