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Shoppers gone wild

Posted in Personal Finance by phil938 on December 28, 2008

This event in New Jersey makes me think that our materialistic urges can sometimes be almost animalistic, where we are physically acting out the anxiety we feel inside to possess a certain thing.

If you haven’t already, I recommend you read this NY Times article about the New Jersey Wal-Mart employee that was trampled to death over the Thanksgiving weekend:  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/business/29walmart.html

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