Sentences with phrase «irate shoppers»

At the supermarket cheese counter I take one of the numbers helpfully dispensed to prevent irate shoppers from punching each other if someone jumps the queue.

[1:03 p.m. Update A surreal kind of linkage developed between Occupy Wall Street and Black Friday overnight, with news that pepper spray — deployed controversially by police at various Occupy rallies — was used by an irate shopper vying for Xbox and Wii products at a California Wal - Mart Black Friday sale.]