The day after Thanksgiving or called by the name Black Friday is the day of the long-awaited United States citizen. Because, today held a massive discount at various shops are open from four o'clock in the morning.
Black Friday is also the first day of the Christmas shopping season ahead. Thousands of residents poured in shopping centers across the U.S.. Sales this year reached a record high compared to previous years. However, many shut down until the unfortunate incident occurred during the shopping process.
One of them was Walter Vance. 61-year-old customer was having a heart attack while hunting goods store discounts at Target, West Virginia, Sunday, November 27, 2011. Quoted from page Huffington Post, Vance's body lying on the floor being ignored by other customers. They are busy selecting the target item.
However, according to Vance's wife, six nurses who happened to be on site immediately gave first aid until paramedics arrived at her husband. Unfortunately, the lives of helpless Vance.
Meanwhile in Arizona, a grandfather named Jerald Allen Newman passed out with a face full of blood due to receive raw bogem security forces. As the Daily Mail published, Newman was beaten because of mistaken shoplifting a video game.
Though Newman took a video game to help his grandson who pinched the queue of visitors. Newman, who passed out covered in blood immediately got help from some of the visitors and the security forces.
In South Carolina, a woman named Tonia Robbins was in critical condition after being shot by two robbers who tried to rob her handbag. The shooting by the robbers also occurs in California and Iowa.
But wherever the location, the atmosphere of Black Friday this year marked the same thing: pushing, elbowing each other, screaming at each other, all for the sake of shopping. This year, the number of people who shopped on Black Friday was estimated at 152 million people, up 10 percent from a year earlier.
The number of sales on Black Friday this year recorded a record high of U.S. $ 52.4 billion (Rp477 trillion). This figure, according to CNN, an increase of 16 percent of profit last year was only U.S. $ 45 billion