Wal-Mart Trains Employees to Manage Black Friday Crowds
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Wal-Mart Trains Employees to Manage Black Friday...
Wal-Mart stores nationwide are revamping their safety procedures after last year's Black Friday disaster. A temporary employee was trampled by a frenzied crowd and later died. Now local stores are...Harrison Banks, store manager of a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Columbus, is on his toes this season, ready to manage the crowds on Black Friday. In fact he’s training employees in shifts to implement new safety measures.
“This year we’re going to have the merchandise placed, and we are going to have what we call queue lines,“ he said.
The lines will organize the shoppers who will be given numbers. Once the numbers for a given product are distributed, the rest of the customers will know to move on.
As usual Muscogee County officers will help maintain the entrance to the Supercenter, and Wal-Mart will front its own crowd management employees.
Banks passed along some safety tips for customers, too: Avoid bottlenecks by not congregating and chatting in the middle of the store, and be careful outside as well as inside. The parking lot has heavy traffic, so enter and exit slowly and carefully.
According to consumer advocate Clark Howard, host of HLN’s “The Clark Howard Show,“ Black Friday is more than just a single day. Now deals are spreading out throughout the month and the week leading up to Thanksgiving. The dispersion should level out the mad rush for deals the morning after.
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