The Blog Really » Wal-Mart http://blogreally.com COMMENTARY ON THE STORIES THAT LEAVE YOU STARING AT YOUR SCREEN SAYING, REALLY... Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:03:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wal-Mart Death Iconic Of Everything Wrong With America According To New York Times http://blogreally.com/2008/12/wal-mart-death-iconic-of-everything-wrong-with-america-according-to-new-york-times/ http://blogreally.com/2008/12/wal-mart-death-iconic-of-everything-wrong-with-america-according-to-new-york-times/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:18:00 +0000 admin http://blogreally.com/?p=348
The Really: David Carr of the New York Times explains consumer herd mentality led to death of Wal-Mart worker is proof of something.

In an interesting piece in today’s Times, David Carr shows consumerism run amok in the death of a Long Island temp worker at a Wal-Mart trampled by bargain hunting mob. But why did he not take the hypothesis futher to include Italian soccer games, rock concerts and bull teasing?

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The Really: A Wal-Mart employee was killed and a woman suffered a miscarriage when a crowd broke through the doors at 5:00 am to hunt for “bargains” at a Wal-Mart on Long Island.

So is this why they call it Black Friday? American shoppers have always been insane but add the evil of the recent economic disaster and the more it is like the Day of the Locust than Black Friday.

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