When Walmart made the announcement over the speakers that they were closing the store due to the death of the employee, the cattle raged about having waited for hours to do their "shopping". Can you imagine a bunch of fat bastards yelling and screaming bursting into Walmart? I have a feeling if there was a definite attempt to close down the store it would have been looted and wrecked. Stealing is what many there came to do anyway, strength in numbers.

"He was bum-rushed by 200 people," said Jimmy Overby, 43, a co-worker. "They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too...I literally had to fight people off my back."

Update #1, New York Times: By 4:55, with no police officers in sight, the crowd of more than 2,000 had become a rabble, and could be held back no longer. Fists banged and shoulders pressed on the sliding-glass double doors, which bowed in with the weight of the assault. Six to 10 workers inside tried to push back, but it was hopeless. Suddenly, witnesses and the police said, the doors shattered, and the shrieking mob surged through in a blind rush for holiday bargains.

Update #2 from Boing Boing: Union responds and visit the website walmartcrimereport.com to review other incidents of Wal-mart not providing a safe work and shopping experience.

Update #3, More Black Friday Deaths: 2 gunmen kill each other in shootout at Toys 'R' Us in Palm Desert

As it is shown, consumer confidence isn't too bad in this "crisis" when they kill to enter stores and then kill each other while they're in them.