Topic: WalMart DVD stampede!
03-Dec-2003, 11:24 AM
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Topic: WalMart DVD stampede!
Just saw this on the CNN site, at:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/11/....ap/index.html
Poor woman gets trampled trying to buy a $29 DVD player at a Super WalMart (yeah, bet THAT'S a great player!), ends up in the hospital, and...the company offers to put one on hold for her!
Sheesh, I don't think the brightest bulbs are working for corporate relations this holiday weekend!
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/11/....ap/index.html
Poor woman gets trampled trying to buy a $29 DVD player at a Super WalMart (yeah, bet THAT'S a great player!), ends up in the hospital, and...the company offers to put one on hold for her!
Sheesh, I don't think the brightest bulbs are working for corporate relations this holiday weekend!
03-Dec-2003, 11:37 AM
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It wasn't Wal Mart's fault. Although it did happen at its door step, but the damage was done by the shoppers. But one could claim that if it weren't for the super low Thanksgiving sale, people wouldn't have rushed in and it wouldn't have happened. That's like suing McDonald for their coffee been too hot.
It was a result of cold hearted shoppers who had no sympathy for a fallen woman on ground. The fact that they stepped over her body to go into a shop is beyond me.
Then again, if it were someone else, I wonder if Patricia would step over that person and rush into the store to grab that damn DVD player.
It was a result of cold hearted shoppers who had no sympathy for a fallen woman on ground. The fact that they stepped over her body to go into a shop is beyond me.
Then again, if it were someone else, I wonder if Patricia would step over that person and rush into the store to grab that damn DVD player.
03-Dec-2003, 01:30 PM
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hehehehe serves her right for trying to be the first to get in.....
you've all seen that commerical where the 2 dudes are in a movie store and one pushes the other to get the dvd first. well if you don't try to be the first you'll be safe and you'll still get the item your after ....
you've all seen that commerical where the 2 dudes are in a movie store and one pushes the other to get the dvd first. well if you don't try to be the first you'll be safe and you'll still get the item your after ....
03-Dec-2003, 01:49 PM
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Originally posted by gatherer
hehehehe serves her right for trying to be the first to get in.....
you've all seen that commerical where the 2 dudes are in a movie store and one pushes the other to get the dvd first. well if you don't try to be the first you'll be safe and you'll still get the item your after ....
hehehehe serves her right for trying to be the first to get in.....
you've all seen that commerical where the 2 dudes are in a movie store and one pushes the other to get the dvd first. well if you don't try to be the first you'll be safe and you'll still get the item your after ....
lol j/k 
03-Dec-2003, 01:52 PM
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Originally posted by EKdude
This just tells you how people react to such a stupid materialistic product due to a sale... that women could have been trampled to death and for what? a dvd sale? retarded...
This just tells you how people react to such a stupid materialistic product due to a sale... that women could have been trampled to death and for what? a dvd sale? retarded...
I thought so.
03-Dec-2003, 01:57 PM
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Originally posted by EKdude
So it was you that pushed the lady wasn't it?! lol j/k
So it was you that pushed the lady wasn't it?!
lol j/k
and now I wouldn't have because my fear of beign pushed would have kept me away from the place to begin with
03-Dec-2003, 01:57 PM
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Originally posted by PULOVR
If there were 2 gas stations that had the same gas (ie Petro, Sunoco, or whatever you use), and one of them was lower in price than the other.....which would you go to?
I thought so.
If there were 2 gas stations that had the same gas (ie Petro, Sunoco, or whatever you use), and one of them was lower in price than the other.....which would you go to?
I thought so.
03-Dec-2003, 01:58 PM
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Originally posted by PULOVR
If there were 2 gas stations that had the same gas (ie Petro, Sunoco, or whatever you use), and one of them was lower in price than the other.....which would you go to?
I thought so.
If there were 2 gas stations that had the same gas (ie Petro, Sunoco, or whatever you use), and one of them was lower in price than the other.....which would you go to?
I thought so.
03-Dec-2003, 02:05 PM
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Originally posted by gatherer
yes but he probably wouldn't go there and smash someone's car out of the way... or even have his car bashed out of the way
yes but he probably wouldn't go there and smash someone's car out of the way... or even have his car bashed out of the way
We are ALL materialistic to a point.
03-Dec-2003, 02:10 PM
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Originally posted by EG4door
All that for a DVD player.
All that for a DVD player.
I remember when the Cabbage Patch Dolls first came out, and then later the Tickle Me Elmo dolls (just to name 2 examples). People were going nuts over these things in the store......fighting, shoving......alll for what? A doll.
Like I said, it could have been anything that caused this to happen.
BTW, were you there when TCC gave out the free mags, car wash coupons, and $10 vouchures for gas?
(yeah, i know, not the same thing, but you get my point)
03-Dec-2003, 02:15 PM
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just imagine, that could have been your mother 
**** like that makes me MAD! 
I went to CT on Nov 28 for the midnight madness sale - madness it was!!! I didn't buy anything, but dear GOD it was like zombies walking around with fistfulls of cash just buy Buy BUY!
**** like that makes me MAD! I went to CT on Nov 28 for the midnight madness sale - madness it was!!! I didn't buy anything, but dear GOD it was like zombies walking around with fistfulls of cash just buy Buy BUY!
03-Dec-2003, 02:28 PM
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Originally posted by PULOVR
If there were 2 gas stations that had the same gas (ie Petro, Sunoco, or whatever you use), and one of them was lower in price than the other.....which would you go to?
I thought so.
If there were 2 gas stations that had the same gas (ie Petro, Sunoco, or whatever you use), and one of them was lower in price than the other.....which would you go to?
I thought so.
thought wrong...
03-Dec-2003, 02:35 PM
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Originally posted by PULOVR
We are ALL materialistic to a point.
We are ALL materialistic to a point.
and about the gas thing.. i never end up waiting.. my time is more valuable then a couple of cents... but thats just me.. if it were out of convenience..ie .. that line up was next to nothing then sure i'll go for it, but that would be a different story..
