<p>Up to 20 people were injured after a woman used pepper spray at a Walmart in Los Angeles to get an edge on her competitors. In a second incident, off-duty officers in North Carolina used pepper spray to subdue rowdy shoppers waiting for electronics. A man was in critical but stable condition after being shot by robbers in a parking lot outside a Walmart In San Leandro, California, Sergeant Mike Sobek said.<br /><br />The man was in a group of men headed for their car after shopping when robbers confronted them and a fight ensued, Sobek said. The man’s shopping companions held down one of the robbers until police arrived and took him into custody.<br /><br />In Los Angeles, authorities were reviewing security tapes to track down a woman in her 30s who pepper-sprayed a crowd at a Walmart as customers swarmed for Xboxes on sale late on Thursday, Los Angeles police Sergeant J Valle said. “They were opening a package to try to get some Xboxes from a crate and this lady pepper-sprayed a whole bunch of people in order to gain an advantage over the Xboxes,” Valle said.<br /><br />Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for US stores.<br /><br />Off-duty police officers working as security for a Walmart in Kinston, North Carolina, used pepper spray to keep anxious shoppers at bay before the start of an electronics sale at midnight on Thursday, authorities said.<br /><br />In another incident, a woman was shot in the foot by a robber who accosted her in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, demanding her purse as she and companions put their purchases into a car trunk near a Walmart, the police said.</p>
<p>Up to 20 people were injured after a woman used pepper spray at a Walmart in Los Angeles to get an edge on her competitors. In a second incident, off-duty officers in North Carolina used pepper spray to subdue rowdy shoppers waiting for electronics. A man was in critical but stable condition after being shot by robbers in a parking lot outside a Walmart In San Leandro, California, Sergeant Mike Sobek said.<br /><br />The man was in a group of men headed for their car after shopping when robbers confronted them and a fight ensued, Sobek said. The man’s shopping companions held down one of the robbers until police arrived and took him into custody.<br /><br />In Los Angeles, authorities were reviewing security tapes to track down a woman in her 30s who pepper-sprayed a crowd at a Walmart as customers swarmed for Xboxes on sale late on Thursday, Los Angeles police Sergeant J Valle said. “They were opening a package to try to get some Xboxes from a crate and this lady pepper-sprayed a whole bunch of people in order to gain an advantage over the Xboxes,” Valle said.<br /><br />Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for US stores.<br /><br />Off-duty police officers working as security for a Walmart in Kinston, North Carolina, used pepper spray to keep anxious shoppers at bay before the start of an electronics sale at midnight on Thursday, authorities said.<br /><br />In another incident, a woman was shot in the foot by a robber who accosted her in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, demanding her purse as she and companions put their purchases into a car trunk near a Walmart, the police said.</p>