Why don’t retailers hand out random numbers on Black Friday
December 2nd, 2008 at 11:49am Georgette Braun
Seems like this whole waiting-in-line-outside-all-night-at-Best Buy-til-your-fingers-are-numb-and-your-patience-has-run-out thing could be avoided by doing what MetroCentre and TicketMaster outlets have done for years when selling tickets for big concerts:
Have everyone who is standing in line at a preselected time choose a number out of a hat.
Then everyone can go home or sit in their warm cars for hours until another preselected time, just an hour or so before the store opens. Everyone lines up according to the number they’ve drawn.
Sure, it’s random. But it’s fair enough.
And the retailer sure doesn’t lose any money.
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1. Georgette Braun | December 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 am
Handing out random numbers would stop tragedies like this one where a temporary worker died in a Wal-mart stampede
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,460924,00.html
2. Georgette Braun | December 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Another update: It was a line-cutting dispute that fueled the stampede.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,461704,00.html
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