Ever had a customer die in front of your store?

[Retail Associate]

We've actually had several deaths and some near-death experiences in my store.

Shortly after the store opened, one of our LP guys was stabbed by a shoplifter. He died in the foyer.

One of our unloaders was killed when a ramp came down and crushed his head. It had gotten stuck and he was trying to get it to come down.

An employee (a teenager) was crushed in the trash compactor. He had tossed some things he wanted into the compactor during his shift then climbed into it to get them after work. The person who tripped the compactor had no idea he was down there. Now they keep the compactor locked and only open it periodically throughout the day. A manager must stand nearby and take note of everything that's tossed into it.

The husband of a former co-worker died in the produce dept of a heart attack while shopping. His wife had died just a week or two before this happened. LP had put yellow caution tape all the way around the area but SCs were ducking under it to shop while the paramedics were performing CPR.

A couple years ago some teenagers were playing chicken in the parking lot. (Car vs pedestrian) One of them was severely injured.

Last year a woman tried to commit suicide by slitting her wrists in the restroom. I had been in the stall next to her and saw a small amount of blood on the floor. I just figured she had started her mentrual cycle and didn't get on the toilet fast enough. She survived.

Our store has only been open since 1990. There have been others but these are the ones I can remember.

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[Toujin]

I haven't seen anyone die in front of me (no one human, that is).

But my mom has worked as a nurse for much of her adult life, so I think she's seen a few people pass on. But there's one that really sticks out in her mind.

Back when my mom worked in the ER, there was a woman who'd come in after going into labor, and her husband had come in with her. But as they were going to the maternity ward, the husband suddenly collapsed and died. I forget if it was a heart or neurological problem that caused it, but my mom and some of her coworkers saw it, and it's something they'll never forget...

[Casino Jockey]

we had someone die in the casino one night.
he was playing the slots, collapsed and died of a heart attack.
whilst security (& Later the paramedics) were working on him, people tried stepping over him to play the solt he had been playing.

[Naaman]

An employee died at Wal Mart, but it was before I'd started working there. She just dropped dead behind the sporting goods counter. The paramedics said that she was probably gone before she even hit the floor.

The Landlord of the pub I used to drink at went something like that. Standing up serving and joking one minute, next minute on the floor. Stayed comatose for 3 days before passing without waking up.

Hell of a wake though and it's not often you hear the Indiana Jones theme in a church

[mattm04]

No deaths at my store but we have had severals seizures. Some of our stores have had shootings in the lot, they are not in the best areas. We did have an armed robbery at at the bank in the store. The robbers didn't think that one thru, lets rob a bank in a grocery store, no one will see us. They we caught at a park across the street.

[Shangri-laschild]

Right before I started working at the college PD, one of the officers was killed by his step-son and friends and was stuffed in the house's crawl space so that they could continue to party for the weekend. People around the office are still sad about it sometimes and his badge number got retired.

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

The robbers didn't think that one thru, lets rob a bank in a grocery store, no one will see us. They we caught at a park across the street.

and those locations are going to be the ones with the most cash on hand

[pile of monkeys]

I saw someone die in the mall I used to work in. He either fell or jumped from the railing of the top floor (inside), down a total of 6+ stories (mall levels and garage levels), and obviously died on impact. I was standing at the doorway of my store (store level 1, still 3 sublevels to go below me) at the time, saw something fly by, and got to the railing just in time to see him land. Lucky me. The entire mall shook. One of the security guys I knew was just coming in for his shift on the bottom level, and the guy landed right next to him. He said he looked up and saw hundreds of people crowding the railings, and had to at least attempt CPR even though he knew it was hopeless. Just knowing that someone would say "I saw mall security, and they didn't do a thing!"

The part that gets me is that a bunch of people, employees mostly, saw that it was a dead person, there wasn't enough security and police to handle 6 floors of people crowding the railings to see what happened, so a number of mall employees were trying to do crowd control, and people, even after learning that it was a very recently deceased person, still rushed the railings to gawk. And the number of them who brought their kids with them to stare, even after being told, "Ma'am/Sir, you really should keep your child back and not allow them to look" was absolutely astounding.

That mall also had a number of stabbings, ODs (mostly in the restrooms), at least one indoor suicide, one outdoor suicide, and a number of people falling off the sides of the escalators (open on both sides down the entire height of the mall).

[TealJellyfish]

This happened right outside my work It was horrifying and they haven't changed it since the accident last July. Even though the Roads and Traffic Authority admitted that the way the intersection is set up contributed to the accident that killed the little girl!