If you recall last year, there was a stampede at a Wal-mart during the big “Black Friday” event in which a person was tragically stampeded to death for the sake of shoppers buying cheap plastic crap from China.    I still can’t figure out the whole marketing genius of keeping/holding all of your sales potential for one damn day.  Often it isn’t even a whole damn day, it’s only a few hours of teaser items which no one is ever able to get unless you show up at 4:00 a.m. and wait for a few hours to be the first one in the store.

Personally, I don’t have any plans on fighting for parking spaces, fighting with crowds, fighting with cashiers or other customer service people to get attention if I need something.   I’d rather just order my stuff on Amazon or online and if I need to go to a store I’ll head over to Costco where the crowd is a bit more subdued.   According to FatWallet, it looks like Wal-mart is finally implementing some sensible rules to keep tragedy from reoccurring this year.