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Following Black Friday’s tragedy where a man working for Wal-Mart was trampled to death, police and long island retailers met. Two weeks after the meeting, the police released recommendations to stores that would help prevent another event lie this from happening.

The report recommended setting up barricades or rope lines to manage crowds before the sale, handing out wristbands or numbered tickets to arriving customers, positioning store employees in the parking lot and providing them radios to share information.

Patrons should enter the stores in smaller groups, not all at once; retailers should have maps showing where to find the hottest sales items, and patrons should be kept out once the store reaches maximum occupancy, the report said.

Stores should call police if crowds become unruly and plan whom to call in a medical emergency, but they should also have defibrillators on hand and staffers trained to use them, the report said.-AP

Hopefully these measures will prevent another tragedy like that…however, crowds can and will still be unpredictable.

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