Black Friday Doorbuster Sales

Black Friday doorbuster sales: Retailers hope to bring order before chaos

             

You might want to carry along some protective armor when you set out for those doorbuster sales in the pre-dawn hours on Black Friday. Hordes hungry for out-of-sight bargains will be rushing to storm the aisles once retailers throw open the doors. So this year, reports the Chicago Tribune, the industry trade group has issued crowd control guidelines.

"Take a nation of retailers on edge about falling sales. Toss in a crowd of bargain-hungry consumers addicted to deals. Keep them apart for hours before dawn with only a glass door separating them, and you have the makings of a Black Friday calamity.

It has been a year since a store worker was trampled to death in a day-after- Thanksgiving doorbuster stampede at a Long Island, N.Y., Wal-Mart. Now, less than three weeks before the busiest and most heavily promoted shopping day of the year arrives again, the retail industry is going out of its way to make sure this year's holiday shopping season doesn't spin out of control..."

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