Another Thanks giving has come and gone and to put it simply, it was good. We had a quite dinner with a another family we know for a long time. Since I lost interest in shopping for "Deals" on Friday after thangs giving day, A.K.A "Black Friday", I did not participate in the ever so maddening early morning shopping spree.
Well, the same can not be said about the guy who lost his life in line of duty at a walMart! in Long Island NY. As the below article points out, the guy was just a temporary maintenance worker who was fixing something at the store.
FOXNews.com - Wal-Mart Worker Dies When Shoppers Break Down Doors - Local News News Articles National News US News
I am sure this is not the first time such an incident is happening, but what struck me most was the fact that the guy was 34 years old as old as I am, may be has a family like mine and dream and aspirations like me, heck it could have been me!
I am not mathematician or cost analyst, but if 100 people were able to get in and get the best deals offered by breaking open the door of that WalMart, each might have bought goods worth an avarage of $1000 dollars. On an average they might have saved 20 percent over retail. That amounts average savings of $200 dollars per shopper, which is a total of $20,000 total savings for those people who got in first.
How can those people sleep well at night or gift those things they bought upon the death of a man's life to their loved ones? Why is buying and amassing meterialistic things at such cost is such a grave problem for America, I will try to dig up books on this topic, I am sure there are research papers on issues like this. Whatever might be the underlying reason, a man's life is not worth of any retail store deal.
If we try to extropolate this, next year would be a worse year economically speaking, hence people are gonna want more deals like this, people are gonna get more restless and retailers are gonna give out more "deals" like this to entice more deal seekers. I don't see such mad and senseless incidents being a rare and freak accident, rather a routine BlackFriday deal event.
Well, I do hope the change that is coming is good, I do hope people have more compasion towards fellow humans, I wish these deal seekers try to keep their decency and other people's saftey in mind.
As far as me and shopping, I will stick with sites like www.deals2buy.com , or www.edealinfo.com or www.dealcatcher.com for my deals. Heck! if I can't get it , better yet, I am left with my money and I don't pile up things I don't need. Black anyday for me is better than black friday for the retailers.
I can't wait for Christmas and its share of drama in our annual shopping season, god bless us all.
-Yogesh
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