Suzanne Harrington: Shooting and shopping — the next craze?

A dystopian novel published earlier this year, The Warehouse, based on the workings of Amazon, makes repeated reference to something called the Black Friday Massacres. How these fictional massacres have impacted on fictional consumers, making them entirely dependent on online shopping because going to the actual shops is too dangerous.

Although these massacres exist only in the imagination of the author – so far, anyway – it’s not hard to imagine, in a country which equally worships guns and buying stuff, someone losing their shit and opening fire amidst the discounted widescreen TV aisles. Slaying fellow consumers as they grapple for cut-price laptops, at point blank range. Shooting and shopping – it’s just a matter of time.