{"id":6722,"date":"2016-11-30T21:44:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T04:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6722"},"modified":"2020-07-14T03:25:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T03:25:56","slug":"twenty-four-injured-at-stapleton-soopers-day-before-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6722","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-Four Injured at Stapleton Soopers Day Before Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"287\" height=\"176\" src=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/king-soopers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8083\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The day before Thanksgiving can be a crazy time to grocery shop, especially if you shop at the Stapleton <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/one-way-aisles-now-in-effect-at-king-soopers\/\" target=\"_blank\">King Soopers<\/a>. Hundreds of shoppers seem to converge at the store around the same time looking for the exact same items last minute. Jennifer Beatty was one of those shoppers. \u201cIt was absolutely crazy,\u201d said Beatty. \u201cPeople speeding through the aisles, grabbing for items that weren\u2019t even there, fighting over every last condiment. It was scary. Really, really scary,\u201d said a tearful Beatty. The Stapleton <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/king-soopers-to-build-%E2%80%9Cwhole-foods-express%E2%80%9D-inside-stapleton-store\/\" target=\"_blank\">King Soopers<\/a> can always be a little frightening, but last minute holiday shopping there can be downright dangerous. \u201cI saw a man, he must have been somewhere in his mid-60\u2019s, fall down while reaching for a box of stuffing,\u201d said Beatty. \u201cIt was the last box, so instead of helping him up, someone just grabbed it and ran off. It was just horrible.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>According to several eye-witnesses, there were tug of wars over carts and baskets, people shoving to get in front of people during self-checkout, and verbal altercations over who got to what first. \u201cAt times, the crowd got so intense, people were collapsing simply from the stress and the pressure,\u201d said shopper Lisa Konsgshaug. \u201cIt was pretty terrifying.\u201d Many of the injuries were scrapes and bruises from falling or getting hit by carts. For others, the injuries were mostly emotional. \u201cAll those frantic people,\u201d whimpered Kongshaug. \u201cJust helpless. Scared. Lost. Injured. I will never forget those faces. I can\u2019t help but think that if the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/soopers-shifts-money-away-from-eastbridge-store-seriously-cites-household-budget-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eastbridge Soopers<\/a> had been open, so many of these injuries wouldn\u2019t have happened,\u201d said Konsgshaug. Hopefully, the Eastbridge Soopers will be open by next year and can alleviate some of the stress on the current Soopers and put an end to the needless pre-Thanksgiving injuries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-139","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8084,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6722\/revisions\/8084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}