Big rush of shoppers
PA Auckland; Two bargain hunters were] taken by ambulance to! Middlemore Hospital — one with a suspected heart attack — • during yesterday’s opening of the Woolworths store at Manukau City. Five other shoppers were treated; on the spot for. minor in-; juries suffered in the rush: i More than 1000 shoppers , had taken the store ; by. storm. Some had queued from 4.30 a.m. to buy specials, . such as power drills.! tagged at ' $l, which celebrated the opening of the. new store. When the doors were) opened at 9 a.m. it was every shopper for himself.
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Press, 26 March 1980, Page 2
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