With the advent of internet shopping, the Black Friday landscape has certainly changed dramatically. Instead of risking life and limb to enter the Hunger Games of holiday shopping — often before you’ve fully digested your Thanksgiving dinner — gifts arrive on your doorstep in days with just a few clicks.
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Larger-than-usual crowds — fueled by too much coffee, too little sleep, and the promise of a slightly cheaper video game console — increase the risk of injury. The crush of the crowd pushing to get in as soon as doors open can lead to scrapes and bruises — and in extreme cases, people have been trampled to death. In fact, a website called Black Friday Death Count tracked 17 deaths and 125 injuries that took place either during or in close proximity to Black Friday sales between 2010 and 2021.
In theory, we’ve come along way from the fistfights and near riots as parents scrambled to get their hands on the must-have Cabbage Patch dolls in 1983 …
In 1996, shoppers who had clearly learned nothing from the Cabbage Patch riots went crazy over Tickle-Me-Elmo. Originally $29, the doll quickly hit a black market price of near $1,000. When some 300 customers lined up outside a Walmart — all hoping to get their hands on one of 48 Elmos — an employee was trampled and had to be taken to a hospital for treatment.
In 1998, shoppers rioted over Furbies — tiny talking toys that looked like a cross between a baby owl and a Mogwai. In addition to being nearly impossible to find, the toys routinely caused additional headaches when they would not turn off. Still, desperate shoppers turned to the black market and paid far above the original list price of $30-35 to dealers who bought and resold the hot item for hundreds of dollars.
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