Posted On: December 5, 2008, 8:37 am CST

Posted By: Shield

My opinion is that you have two problems here. One is that Walmart did create a dangerous situation with their marketing techniques. A lot of the big retailers use the same marketing technique, Walmart just got unlucky and get bit by it first. This is easily fixable. Legislators will need to make some rules/laws stating that you can't do this type of marketing unless you have enough product to satisfy the demand, thus doing away with the mad crowd at the door waiting to sprint through the store to obtain one of the few items. The other problem is a society that has created people with so little regard for their fellow man, that they put obtaining "stuff" at a cheap price to be more important than the welfare of their fellow man. This isn't easily rectified. They need to review the store video and do what they can to press charges against every shopper that knocked down or stepped on the employee that died. Our society needs to start teaching us to respect eachother and stop putting so much emphasis on "me". Stop worrying so much about our own self esteem and start worrying more about others. "put others first" and the rest will fall into place.