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Police have been called to supermarkets across the UK amid crowd surges as people hunt for "Black Friday" offers.
Greater Manchester Police appealed for calm after attending seven Tesco shops, at which three men were arrested and a woman was hit by a falling television.
The force's chief constable called the issues "totally predictable" and said he was "disappointed" by shop security.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30241459
Doesn't surprise me either.
I was unlucky enough to be in our local Tesco a couple of weeks ago and witnessed a major and very unseemly scrummage over the reduced groceries section. Anyone would think these people were starving but the truth is they were mainly well dressed people filling their trollies with quite expensive branded products which had been reduced by a couple of pounds. Not exactly household necessities. The staff who'd been stacking the shelf were forced to retire and watch from a safe distance as people pushed, shoved and shouted in order to grab as much as they could.
I'm wondering how long it'll be before someone is seriously injured or worse as a result of this sort of selfish behaviour and IMHO the stores must bear their share of responsibility for not adequately controlling the situation.