No wonder other countries hate us.
The videos yesterday of horrid bad behavior of shoppers on "black" Friday only confirmed that our current system of "free enterprise" is broken and needs to be fixed by regulation.
WHY are there lineups for 4-5 days BEFORE "black" Friday store sales?
Because those customers are afraid that if they don't get into the stores early, what they want will run out being in short supply and at a deep discounted price.
DEM ISSUES believes that as a condition of their business licenses, retailers should be required to offer mandatory RAIN CHECKS for their heavily discounted items that causes stampedes and near riots in stores.
So if the store DOES "run out", no problem, a rain check can be issued for that same item at the same "black" Friday price within a reasonable wait time.
D.I. believes that regulations like this will help society from the bad side of ourselves that seem to happen every "black" Friday under the current "free enterprise" system.
The videos of people being trampled and stampeded in stores, like the one from Target in Buffalo yesterday, can be avoided by mandatory rain checks.
Retailers may not like this, but the current way they do business...having items in short supplies...will only cause more stampedes...and needless deaths.
