Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede
A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said.
The 34-year-old employee, a temporary maintenance worker, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.
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To an extent, retailers, themselves, bear much blame for out-of-control crowds who tear off doors and trample others in their bargain hunting frenzy, with lures of outrageous reductions for the first fifty or hundred people to enter the store. Is our economy in such a miserable state that property destruction and human life are scant recompense for bargains?