Maybe idiot media and stupid retailers will stop now.

[LeftHander]

Maybe they will stop using terms like "door buster", "frenzy" and other terms to whip up the retail addicted public.

What's next "LAST SHOPPER STANDING!"


The American public has shown time and time again if you advertise a emotion and tie it to a product or event you will get that emotion from the shoppers.

Marketers have long manipulated emotions in enticing people through a door. Which is the most important factor for big box retail. Getting people through your doors...

It all makes me sick.

[annabanana]

1. There will be barely a mention of the stampede OR the death...

"bad for business" you know. .

[MiniMe]

2. It's not like this is the first time it has happened

I remember a few years ago Walmart (coincidence? I think not) had a super sale on DVD players for $39. At least 1 person died in that stampede too.

[LeftHander]

3. But now they are advertising "A door buster".

IN the actual ads....

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Please post a pic of this, I think Wal-Mart needs a little shaming. n/t

[LeftHander]

7. It is the retail pundits and PR ad whores....pushing Door Busters...

Leaking the Friday ad circulars early, sending our PR on low low prices.

Doorbuster is part of the "Black Friday" vocabulary...I don't recall these terms 20 years ago.

[Karenina]

10. 40 years ago it was Filene's Basement on Saturday morning.

Oh, the humanity!!!

[ColbertWatcher]

11. Any links? n/t

[LeftHander]

12. Google "Doorbusters"

You will find articles and numerous astro-turf websites and blogs promoting the "doorbuster" conept of sale prices.

[jkshaw]

4. This behavior has been with us for at least a century

My husband and I were talking about this at breakfast. We remember lampoons of sales in which (the usual fall guys), women, were shown fighting over some item -- a scarf, a sweater. This was happening when we were babies and we're 75 and 78 years old! It's not going to stop unless stores, especially the big stores, stop trading on people's rapacity and lack of human dignity.

I remember during the late 60s and early 70s when so-called prizes were awarded or auctioned off in which a shopper would be given a shopping cart and allowed to race through a store, filling it as fast and as full as possible, the cameras trained on the shopper. It seemed such a demeaning thing to foist on people who were vulnerable to getting something they couldn't otherwise afford. We were living at the time from hand to mouth but nothing would entice either of us to engage in that mad scramble.

[ColbertWatcher]

6. You'd think we'd know better by now. n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

8. Doubt it will stop.

As long as shopaholic and materialistic people see a potential cost savings in a 4AM sale, then Black Friday will have an audience.

[hendo]

9. it sells

and Americans could care less about Black Friday deaths.