Crowd trampling

Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retail chain has been fighting for months against paying a USD 7,000 fine, while they are spending millions of dollars to settle the case in the background. In one of the company’s units in Long Island (New York) a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors, knocked an employee down and trampled him to death. Wal-Mart is of the opinion that their paying the fine would set a legal precedent that would be detrimental to retailers.