Where you might see a store that offers lower prices than its competition, this site sees a goldmine:

Imagine that you are a Wal-Mart customer. You first park your car and walk through the parking lot, onto the sidewalk, and through the front doors. Looking at the listing of cases you can see there have been lawsuits involving each of these activities; for example, customers have been injured by automatic doors. Now continue shopping. As you proceed down the aisle way all manner of injuries can occur, notably slipping and falling on wet substances (including products) on the floor. Next, consider the fact that thousands of customers are injured each year by falling merchandise. As you, the imaginary shopper, continue you may encounter falling shelves, chairs or benches that collapse, falling signs, and injuries caused by Wal-Mart employees pushing carts or pallets. Continue to pretend you are a shopper and you can visualize situations where Wal-Mart security personnel falsely accuse you of theft. Finally, you may have an unhappy experience with the items you purchased, including mis-filled prescriptions from a Wal-Mart pharmacy, or defective goods such as toys or electrical appliances.

The attorney, Lewis Laska, will sell you for $135 a packet of materials dealing with lawsuits against Wal-Mart for “Parking Lots- Uneven Surface and Protrusions.” And do you think it’s just reformers who refer to the “litigation lottery”? Laska is the proud author of “How Trial Lawyers Win Jackpot Verdicts in Medical Malpractice Cases,” which unfortunately does not exist beyond the title page is not currently on the web, though Google has a cache that merits its own post.

Addendum: Alas, when researching this post, I looked up Laska in our archives, rather than the web-page title, and missed Walter’s post of Jul. 7, 2000, which noted the “Pallets or Dollies Left in Aisle Ways (12 items, $100)” “Shopping Carts – Overloaded (4 items, $45)”, and “Restrooms – Water on Floor (3 items, $40)” items on the price list. Kevin Brancato writes us to say his blog about (but not affiliated with) Wal-Mart covered this Mar. 23.

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