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...Mart •fatal overeagerness of Black Friday shoppers...
...course, the greed and incompetence was not limited to a few individuals, but nearly systemic. As a result, finding out who is responsible for the collapse of our economy is as difficult as determining who is responsible for the death of Jdimytai Damour, the Wal-Mart employee who was trampled to death last Friday by around 2,000 people who continued shopping after it was announced that an employee had been killed. Both of these mishaps were the result of a large number of people acting irresponsibly and arguably some acting criminally...
Jdimytai Damour was just doing his job. Like the rest of his co-workers at the Wal-Mart at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, N.Y, he signed up for an early morning shift on Black Friday—the “official” first shopping day of the holiday season. But when shoppers forced their way through the doors at 5:00 a.m., Damour was thrown back onto the linoleum tiles and trampled by customers eager to snatch the best bargains they could find. He suffered fatal injuries crushed beneath a chaotic stampede of more than...
...conversation—but it is also a striking real-life indication of how far consumer culture has gone astray. As Joe Priester, a professor at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, suggested, we may attribute the homicidal mania of the Wal-Mart shoppers in question to “a sort of fear and panic of not having enough.” How far are we willing to let this acquisitive lust take us? Damour’s death is emblematic of the invisible price tag of the consumerism in which we so readily...
...jets that CEOs ride - Gulfstreams, Citations, Lears - are described as luxurious by reporters who probably have never been on board. Good guess, though. Being a business journalist, I've been on a number of corporate chariots, ranging from Nike's (think new, cushy Air Jordans with wings) to Wal-Mart's (think used Chrysler minivan with wings.) Typically, you are offered a ride-along with the CEO to watch the big boss in Action Mode. I'm not really sure if this is designed to impress or if it's simply an effective use of the CEO's time. After...