Wal-Mart worker dies in sale rush

Name: Dean (49712059)

Date: 4/12/2008

Article# 9

From: BBC

Wal-Mart worker dies in sale rush

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7755278.stm

My reaction:

The news is about a tragedy that happened at a Wal-Mart store in the New York suburbs. One of the staff died of being trampled by customers.

First, it happened after the Thanksgiving Day. The Wal-Mart store promoted a serious of steep price reduction in order to attract consumers. Therefore, many bargain-hunters who shop for cheap goods queued up in front of it. When the store was opening, those bargain-hunters stormed in it without any consideration, just grabbed what they want. It exposed that the people lacked of moral education and the manager of the store under estimated the number of crowd.

In USA, the Thanksgiving Day is one of the important festivals. Many families would spend much money celebrating it no matter rich and poor. It almost holds the half of the income of all retailers. However, this time, the Wal-Mart store couldn't consider about the loss of control happened in New York's branch. They thought they could control the situation In fact, they couldn't. They didn't expect how zealous the crowd was and the crowd flocked into the store as it opened. After that, the staff didn't try to calm them down. Moreover, I think those people lost their mind for cheap stuff. As a citizen, we should show our respect and politeness. Those crowds were afraid of losing the chance of buying their favourites. Therefore, they pushed each other for getting a good place where they could enter the shop faster. That was a bad example for children. If they learn that behaviour, the entire society will be in chaos.

As a result, we should learn more about the toleration. If someone pushes you in the above case, you should tell the person politely instead of pushing him back. If any had done the above movement, the tragedy wouldn't have happened.(203words)