Wal-Mart's Black Friday: the Tragic Death of Jdimypai Damour

If I was a retail giant with any amount of dignity I would seriously consider eliminating the sales to just one day even if it meant taking a loss.  No amount of money is worth a life or even injury.

This senseless death is tragic and highlights that something is definitely wrong with a materialistic society.

According to some reports, the numbers were down a bit this year, but I guess not enough:

This poor guy probably made $7/hour and lost his life...why?  So Wal-Mart can boast an increase in sales for the final quarter of 2008?  This is just another fine example of not only society's greed (and weirdness)...but of Wal-Mart too!  Every year, there are stories of tramplings, EMS calls, etc.  What made them think this year would be any different?  At what point do they, this big corporation that pulls the puppet strings on the epitomy of white trash America, say enough is enough?

Just another tally mark as to why I REFUSE to shop at Wal-Mart and have been open about my boycotting them. 

What to know what Wal-Mart is really about?  Google: Wal-Mart Shanks...Read how they sued a brain damaged woman for HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars.

Apprently, that's not enough - so now that have to set the stage for this poor kid to DIE! 

This has now finally made BBC news.

As a retail store manager who opens those doors on Black Friday morning every year, I can't stress the importance of making sure your employees are out of harm's way and that security is present for the protection of your employees.  These retailers have an obligation, after hyping up the public for weeks and offering "doorbuster sales," which is literally what took place, to protect their employees and enforce the law.  Security should announce outside to the crowds with signs or with a megaphone that those who do not proceed calmly and orderly into the store will be pulled out of line, restrained, arrested, and criminally prosecuted.  Stores like Walmart, Best Buy, Toys R Us, etc. need to work with local authorities.  They can't expect a couple of workers to hold back crowds of over 2,000 people if something goes terribly wrong--as did in NY on Friday. 

On the other hand, it is the responsibility of the District Attorney of Nassau County, and any other place where this occurs, which it has every year (i.e. Walmart in Florida 1 or 2 years back), to investigate and criminally prosecute anyone they can catch from the security videos.  This is not as hard as it sounds.  Many of these people went on to shop after and if you see the same person checking out you pull that receipt and see if they used a credit or debit card.  If people aren't being publically prosecuted with national attention this will continue to occur every year.

We close our doors when it reaches fire marshall capacity, which is 500 for us and is reached 3 minutes after opening.  People are constantly sticking their arms and legs and pushing on the door to try to get through. We always make sure we have our largest people up front and a group of managers to push them right back out.  THEY ARE NUTS! But Walmart, and others, are not completely devoid of responsibility here.  That poor man lost his life that day, but Walmart still made millions of dollars in profit.

This is what we call civilized World?

Everyone needs to boycott Walmart for what happened to this young man!!! I hope his family sues the pants off Walmart and those who walked over him like that. Every single person that ignored him, especially when medical professionals were assisting him, need to be prosecuted. Unfortunately, unless it happens to "one of our own", the Police, etc also do not really care by and large. If it had been "one of their own", they'd be out in the streets taking up collections, creating news on it, and advocating Law to prevent it from happening again. They would also be after those responsible, I mean, the shoppers..and then there's the little matter of color..I take it he was black?   Poor guy.

the 'consumers' who trampled the guy, probably went ahead to do their desired shopping and save a lot, barbarians.

This is the result of America's lack of teaching right and wrong from a very early age, and rather instilling a "moral relativism" that says....ME first and all else be damned.

SECURITY MISTAKE TOOK A LIFE!!!
without seeing the video from the surveillance camera, I'm sure that the person responsible for the security of the store (loss prevention) made four mistakes.
MY SUGGESTION TO THE WALMART MANAGEMENT -
Next time spend some cash and get professional security specialists.

Wango

This was terribly sad and utterly senseless.  According to autopsy results, Mr. Damour was trampled to death by those dreadful shopping-frenzied mob.  There's a slew of lawsuits against Wal-Mart in Long Island, NY.  

I'm not from the united states I'm from america though but I think this is the way you like it: ME first and all else be damned. It's not a problem with the store (because store will ruin everyone it can) it's a cultural problem, you're so individual, so cold, nothing worths more than myself, so start working on that and stop complaining.