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Black Friday: Nov. 25, 2011

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Dangers of shopping
A man in Roanoke, Va., shopping at Best Buy was recorded on video assaulting another shopper.
Sources: ShopperTrak; ComScore; Wikipedia

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At a store outside Columbus, Ohio, several employees were pinned against stacks of merchandise while customers rushed in.

In 2008, a crowd of approximately 2,000 shoppers in Valley Stream, N.Y., waited outside the local Wal-Mart. When the doors were unlocked, the crowd broke the door

down and trampled a 34-year-old employee to death. A man in Buffalo, N.Y., was trampled at a Target store in 2010.
SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY TARA CORRAN/QMI AGENCY