Police Chief Blames Tesco For 'Black Friday' Battles

Or in Waitrose ... or, come to that, in Beswick (Asda) or Openshaw (Morrisons) .... (@tescohater)

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I don't think Unicorn Grocery had a sale on.

It did actually. I grabbed the last three bags of organic quinoa.

It was kicking off in the Cheese Hamlet all night apparently.

I know dude. I can't believe that pathetic vacuous culture has caught on. We'll be celebrating Thanksgiving next FFS!

Yeah dude. Hate American imports dude.

Yawn... Did you get an education?

Edumacation?

This desperate, grasping materialism and consumerism, is a sad indictment of modern Britain and the debased, dumbed down culture, seemingly lapped up or imbibed by great swathes of unthinking,semi-conscious[at best] sheeple. I think that we need to stop blaming Thatcher, the importation of American culture, or poverty for this behavior. Although it is a kind of spiritual poverty, a lack of depth and meaning in our lives, that in part, I think , leads to people trying to fill an inner vacuum in this crass and self defeating way. American imports like Black Friday catch on because we are sufficiently debased and similar in our outlook and values. Although I'm not a Christian, I wouldn't mind{unlike anon above}, if we did celebrate thanksgiving day. If we could re-learn to count our blessings, then the manipulators who want us to feel inadequate, needy, poor,left behind etc, would have less effect. Mainstream, mass culture is not your friend. We need to start weaning ourselves off it.

I agree with you MF. Except the but about us celebrating the Anerican Thanksgiving day. I believe Christmas day has the same effect on some of eg. being kinder and more thoughtful to others. Also the dinner's nearly the same ingredients and that wouldn't be fair on the turkey population.

It's worth noting that although stems from what has become an American tradition, not all Americans are taken in by it. There is a tendency to tar everyone with the same brush www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/…/black-friday-opinion-stay-class-8193415…

It stems

Another opportunity for some yank bashing by the leftist numptists.Guess what most of those USA traditions you moan about being adopted in UK such as Halloween and Thanksgiving were the product of you dumb Anglos in the first place.You brought them to America along with genocide and slavery land theft of the original people.

With the likes this man crime is always the responsibility of the citizen or business.If only we followed all crime prevention,like never going out in evening or any public places,be no opportunity for criminals.A hopeless logic.We saw the cowardice of this man in dealing with the looting in Manchester a few years ago.If the police don't want to deal with criminals then it's time for even greater sackings and job losses with GMP.You see security guards putting life's on line for minimum wage while highly paid coppers hide behind their desks in police stations.Absolutely disgusting the mentality of these people.

Ah, yes, the classic plight of the hard done by, saintly security guards vs those fat cat frontline policemen.

The security guards ain't no saints but they not the pampered coppers,who ain't exactly noted for sticking their necks on the line anymore,despite their excessive salary and perks.

Can you police clarify 'excessive salary and perks'? I'm certainly no police fanboy, but do think they come in for a lot of stick from people which is based on assumptions rather than fact.

Completely irresponsible by Tesco and as the police rightly pointed out, completely predictable outcome. Inept planning by this company resulting in another expensive and needless corporate subsidy in the the call on police resources.

Who else gets to retire at 50 like many coppers have done?,and then often walk into other employment with the same employers.Its a scandalous waste of money that goes back to the 1980s when Thatcher was keen to buy the support of the police in the struggle to beat the miners strike,and gave the police very generous settlements,and overlooked and protected them over the likes of Hillsborough.

Tesco are not responsible for law and order,that's the police job.But these over paid,cry babies prefer to park their fat arses in police offices,rather than what they paid to do.Shall we cancel all sales,all football matches just in case their is ever any disorder?.

This is a private enterprise and should have been the responsibility of their own security to deal with, just like any other firm. It is beyond the pail to expect the public to bail this company out for an event that was organised, promoted and planned in advance - the people in charge of these firms are either completely inept or have a grossly distorted sense of entitlement. Football clubs pay towards policing costs arising from their activities. Large corporates like Tesco should do exactly the same.

As do clubs and bars. Nothing to do with the police

It is just the street level manifestation of an economic system that allows City wideboys to massively profit on things like gambling n the future value of commodity foodstuffs, leaving people in third world countries unable to afford basic stables . Excepts the powers that be never want to highlight that as a problem, rather focusing on the overall much less damaging behaviours of the working classes. I'm not defending it, but the worst behaviours of British society are largely legitimised and encouraged by the political elite. How on earth are people supposed to behave in a culture of 'greed is good', which is actually a lot more prevalent now than in the 80s.

And before you accuse me of spouting socialist nonsense, read www.independent.co.uk/…/johann-hari-how-goldman-gambled-on-starvation-2016088.html…. Gets boring listening to people saying the world is going to pot because of some minor incidents when truly devastating behaviour is covered up and condoned. Why do things like the Black Friday things happen? 'Cause we create a world that prioritises consumption, but then make it so unequal that a lot of people can't afford the things they've been told to strive for.

Greed is the natural state of mind caused by a scarcity mentality.

Want to talk about exploitation.,what about the police service exploiting fears about crime to secure large salaries,comfortable working conditions,early retirement,while do sod all to confront criminality,sat in their increasingly remote police offices.

Imagine what society would be like if people behaved like this over essentials like food and water. I'll tell you what is a disgrace to British society though. The current state of immigration. Too many to soon. It'll end in tears.

"Imagine what society would be like if people behaved like this over essentials like food and water." Well, we'd be pretty fucked if things were that bad, so what's your point?

My point is, is if behaviour like this and back in August 2011 happens over TV's, then it'll be far worse over things that sustain life. People will kill each other.

That's how the world was for thousands of years.

Hmmm that would be one option for preventing over-population.

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