AP: Shooting Leaves 2 Dead at Ariz. Wal - Mart

[mcscajun]

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Two people were killed and another was wounded Tuesday in a shooting at a Wal-Mart parking lot, police said.

Authorities had no other immediate details about the shooting.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Wal-Mart-Shootings.html

[mzteris]

1. wonder if they bought their guns there? n/t

[Xipe Totec]

2. Shop till you drop? n/t

[mzteris]

3. that

was bad......... :evilgrin:

[dave502d]

4. Maybe they were shoplifting.

Stacy Driver, shown with his father, Huey, in this family photo, died Sunday in the custody of Wal-Mart employees after they struggled to detain him in handcuffs for suspected shoplifting.
Security experts discourage the aggressive tactics used by Wal-Mart employees who struggled with a suspected thief who later died.

"Most retailers have a policy of not going into a chase or getting into a combative fight with someone," said Joseph LaRocca, vice president of loss prevention for the National Retail Federation.

Wal-Mart's corporate office on Tuesday refused to discuss its procedures for detaining and using force against shoplifting suspects in wake of the death of Stacy Clay Driver, 30, on Sunday.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3303871

[mom cat]

8. Holy shit... nothing in Wal-Mart is worth dying for!

[dogday]

5. Who needs the post office when you

got walmart. Walmart where drive-byes happen every day...

[parasim]

6. What's up with Wal-Mart...?

A man in Texas was killed in a scuffle with security guards in a Wal-Mart parking lot just the other day:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15014453&BRD=1574&PAG=461&dept_id=532241&rfi=6

Is Wal-Mart the new Post Office or something?

on edit: well, i need to brush up on my typing speed, looks like both the story I linked and my Post Office joke were already covered here... oh well...

[Rainscents]

7. Yea, it's call... Wal Postal

[durablend]

9. Wal*Murika

WE OWN YOUR ASS--DEAL WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[longship]

10. Somebody went postal?

er, I mean...

Somebody went WalMart?

[mcscajun]

11. More details....

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Two Wal-Mart employees were shot to death Tuesday in the parking lot of one of the retail stores in suburban Phoenix, police said.

The shooting occurred in the middle of the lot, at least 50 yards from the store entrance. Police spokesman Mike Pena said authorities were searching for the gunman. He said there were several witnesses to the shootings but would not identify them.

''This is an extremely tragic situation. It has been confirmed that we have lost two of our associates,'' company spokeswoman Sharon Weber said from Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.

Police cordoned off much of the parking lot, telling anyone whose car was within a perimeter that they would have to leave their vehicles there.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Wal-Mart-Shootings.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

12. Union busting comes to mind - remember Matewan??

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From a related article:

" Two Wal-Mart employees were shot to death Tuesday in the parking lot of one of the retail stores in suburban Phoenix, police said.

The shooting occurred in the middle of the lot, at least 50 yards from the store entrance.

Police spokesman Mike Pena said authorities were searching for the gunman. He said there were several witnesses to the shootings but would not identify them.

"This is an extremely tragic situation. It has been confirmed that we have lost two of our associates," . . .



sorry

but the way Wal-Mart has behaved with regards to Unions

in my mind union-busting is a distinct possibility

OR

the reverse,

employees losing their jobs because of involment with pro-union activities getting revenge

TWO employees??

that ain't random in my Canuk way of thinking . . .

[castiron]

13. two shitty job openings in Arizona

When we fought our local Super Center (450 people in one city council meeting) we had a special presentation dedicated solely to the violence that WalFarts attracts. Kidnapping, rapes and shootings: never at Target, though. Why?

[genieroze]

14. Oh for gawds sake, that retailer is a cancer that need to be starved..