Woman Stabbed And Killed At Walmart, As They Stay Open For Business

[one_voice]

Walmart did block off the area where a stabbing took lace, but didn’t close the store.

“I saw there was blood everywhere, on the ground, on the table, on the wall,” said Brittany King, a shopper who arrived shortly after the stabbing. “It’s disrespectful to the family that it happened to. Especially the people and the employees who saw it happen.”

“From what I can see, they never really gave (the employees) that opportunity to recuperate,” said Bob Quarles, who said he walked into the store just as the attack happened.

Master Deputy Jennings Autrey said the decision to stay open was up to the management at the store.

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http://www.alan.com/2011/12/14/woman-stabbed-and-killed-at-walmart-as-they-stay-open-for-business/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook


All about the Benjamins. This is disgusting!

[doc03]

1. The Walton family has the combined wealth of the bottom 30% of the

American people, they can't keep up their lifestyle if they just go around shutting down stores for little things like that.

[Octafish]

12. That is an amazing statistic.

It's like they had an invisible hand helping like.



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[MrSlayer]

2. Why punish the other consumers on the whim of a corpse?

Just like prison, clean it up and continue on as if nothing happened. The other customers didn't murder anyone, why should they lose their privilege to shop?

I'm sure the store manager would answer in this manner.

[TroglodyteScholar]

17. Creepy how believable your point is.

Sure there's a warm corpse in sporting goods, but there's a still a killer sale on DVDs a hop-skip-and-a-jump away in electronics...!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Corporations have only one purpose: making money. They are basically amoral.

That is why they're so dangerous, and must be regulated and watched.

[bullwinkle428]

4. Ladies and gentleman...we really are going the way of the Roman Empire.

[Skip Intro]

5. WM is no saint, but isn't the real "bad guy" in this case the person who stabbed another person? nt

[Terra Alta]

9. Wal-mart should have closed the store for the rest of the day out of respect

for the person killed and to give their employees time to recuperate.. But, no, they can't stand to lose a few thousand $ out of the millions they make every day so they choose to keep the store open.

[RKP5637]

6. Outfits like Walmart don't give a damn about people, just the cash they bring. I'm not

surprised at all. The only thing corporations see is $$$$. It's a disgusting concept and will eventually end in failure.

[brewens]

7. Imagine how freaked out some of the employees were

and they still had to keep working? It would freak me out and I work for a blood center. I'm okay with the stuff as long as it stays in the bag but I don't even like to watch gory movies.

[Cid_B]

10. If I worked for Walmart...

... I would be more concerned about the loss of hours and pay instead of some tender feelings.

Also what about Grandma when she needs her meds from the pharmacy? Or the young mother who desperately needs diapers and has 20 minutes to get them?

How long is the appropriate time to shut down?

1 hour? 1 week? Never open again?

The store acted correctly.

[one_voice]

11. Closed at least until...

the blood and stuff was cleaned up. They also should have gotten some kind of counselor in there for their employees. Not everyone can work after seeing someone stabbed.

To witness something that violent is not an easy thing.

[knitter4democracy]

13. I'd be worried about contaminating the crime scene, getting it cleaned up, and getting workers home.

If he walks because his lawyer's able to say that the crime scene was compromised, people are going to scream--and blame Walmart.

[one_voice]

15. Hmmm...

that's a good point. I guess wait until the cops clean it up--even if it's 6 hours or so...I just think the decent thing to do would be make sure your employees aren't too traumatized and maybe show a little compassion for the victim.

[tabasco]

14. No doubt.

No doubt.

[sabrina 1]

18. And if I were Walmart, I would make sure no one lost a day's pay when the store had to shut

down for a tragedy like this. But that would be the normal, human thing to do. And we are talking about greed of dimensions not seen in the history of the world. And the world, because of them, is a lot sadder place.

You just made the case everyone else has been making. Not only are they heartless bastards for not caring about a murdered human being, but if they had closed down, they would have cut the pay of their already struggling employees. Thanks for the reminder, I should have thought about that.

Not sure what your point was though, it didn't seem to be to try to make Walmart look worse than it already does, but that is what you succeeded in doing anyhow.

[OriginalGeek]

21. me too

but I'm in IT - I rarely go on the floors where they got bags of blood...

And when I do go down to donate, I look the other way.

I don't mind it in movies be real and MINE is horse of a different flavor.

[Terra Alta]

8. I work for Wal-mart. If I had witnessed such an attack

there is no way I would have been able to continue working like nothing happened. The right thing to do would have been to close the store and send all the employees home to recuperate. If the decision to stay open was left up to management, then that store has some pretty cold-hearted managers. I have a feeling, though, the decision came from corporate -- it's all about the bottom line for the greedy Waltons.

[OhioBlue]

16. absolutely disgusting!!!

It is just beyond disrespectful to the family and absolutely insensitive to the employees. Huge shame on WalMart - a-holes!!

[demgrrrll]

19. Unbelievable.

[Jello Biafra]

22. Cleanup on ailse 7....Gees........n/t