Reply #27: I can tell you a lot of things that could have been done to save the victim [View All]

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number one, a partition could have been put up every 30 customers so that rushing the front would have been avoided.

number two, walmart could have made it clear what the process would be, 30 people go in at a time, wait 5 minutes, then another 30 people go, ect. everyone on line would have known what the procedure was and not treated it like a mad scramble to get to the front as quick as possible.

number three, walmart could have taken inventory of the items it had one sale in the fliers and told people online, "look, we have X-number of these HDTVs and X-number of laptops," and starting from the front of the line taken a list of who wanted what sale items and taken names and had them ready for THOSE CUSTOMERS ONLY and then told the rest of the people in line that they would have to come back another time if they wanted those particular items. I did that two years ago with the Nintendo Wii. We had eight in stock and there were 10 people in line the night before black friday. I told the last two people "look, I know you're planning on spending the night here, but there's a better than not chance that you're not going to get one today, I'll have the store take your name and number and call you when we get more in." They appreciated that and didn't get angry and left the line. Keep in mind, I did that ON MY OWN and not on the authority of Wal-Mart.

number four, it could have hired private security guards to monitor the line as crowd control.

number five, it could have served coffee and donuts to people in line to calm them down and keep them happy instead of tense and angry.

that's just what I can think of off the top of my head.