Black Friday mayhem

[paul_rothman]

Here are all the videos from this morning's look at Black Friday 2012 in the STE Executive Suite! For the full article, visit http://bit.ly/BlkFri2012

Careful, some of the videos below have offensive language in the background....

A fistfight in Roseville, Calif. over women's undergarments:

Another big fight at a mall in Mesquite, Texas:

A lesson in poor crowd control at a Walmart in Moultrie, Ga.:

Another out-of-hand Walmart crowd in Illinois:

[wiredharpoon]

The last two videos show a good example as to why you need to have a plan when it comes to giving away high demand items. It looks like they just let people run wild into the store without any sort of control.

[Curtis Baillie]

And here I thought Walmart had learned their lesson....guess not.

[Squid]

I braved the Mtn View Walmart on Thx-giving eve. I just had to do it.

Mostly various "professional" immigrants types. HB-1 Hindus, etc. Everyone basically "cool" and behaved but they had to try to direct the herd inside the store like grid-locked traffic.

But still a ridiculous crowd and "accident waiting to happen".

Checkout lines where 200ft long all the way to back of store. If nothing else, seems disrespectful of customers time and health.

I can't believe none of the several MVPD didn't step up and limit the overcrowding. I'm sure they were at least 3x their "max occupancy" rating. About 1/2 notch till people were actually pressing and touching, so if someone fell over it could become "Dominoes", which could become a panic.

I'm all for "Black Friday Madness" but they should switch to lottery system of some sort, similar to rock concert ticket sales. Print "lucky numbers" on the backs of all receipts for the week before and announce winners/time slots online.