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Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death - A Shopping Guernica Captures the Moment - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/weekinreview/30goodman.html?ref=weekinreview



November 30, 2008
A Shopping Guernica Captures the Moment
By PETER S. GOODMAN
From the Great Depression, we remember the bread lines. From the oil shocks
of the 1970s, we recall lines of cars snaking from gas stations. And from
our current moment, we may come to remember scenes like the one at a Long
Island Wal-Mart in the dawn after Thanksgiving, when 2,000 frantic shoppers
trampled to death an employee who stood between them and the bargains
within.

It was a tragedy, yet it did not feel like an accident. All those people
were there, lined up in the cold and darkness, because of sophisticated
marketing forces that have produced this day now called Black Friday. They
were engaging in early-morning shopping as contact sport. American business
has long excelled at creating a sense of shortage amid abundance, an anxiety
that one must act now or miss out.

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