season of goodwill

[realthog]

The BBC reports what has to be one of the most repulsive stories around at the moment. Here's the start of it:

US stores lure hard-up shoppers

US stores have opened early and offered steep discounts to encourage consumers to part with their cash as the Christmas shopping season kicks off.

Crowds of shoppers turned up at dawn to snare the best deals.

A worker died and at least three people were injured after being trampled by a crowd of shoppers at a Wal-Mart in the New York suburbs.

Season of greed, more like -- pure, unadulterated, and now murderous. And people ask me why I loathe Christmas so much . . .

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"It seems like this happens every year."

The poverty-wage employees being trampled to death?

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

People being trampled to death in black friday shopping. I have deep sympathies for it being a worker, this time, versus one of those hell-bent on shopping. And perhaps my memory is twisting things past to be darker than they were? I'd swear someone was trampled to death last year. Maybe not the year before?

[realthog.livejournal.com]

" have deep sympathies for it being a worker, this time, versus one of those hell-bent on shopping."

Yes, that does somehow add a whole extra layer of nausea to the tragedy, doesn't it?