Shoppers Scuffle at Upland Wal-Mart

Upland - A Wal-Mart store in Southern California closed its doors for several hours before dawn Friday after some shoppers began fighting over bargain merchandise.

Upland police said officers were called to the store at about 2:44 a.m. and helped herd customers into the parking lot. Groups of customers were allowed back inside before 6 a.m.

There were no injuries and no arrests.

Wal-Mart changed its procedures for crowd control on Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, after a guard was asphyxiated last year when crowds broke down the doors of a store in New York state.

In Burbank, two shoppers got into a minor scuffle Friday morning at a checkout line at the Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse.

Police said one man accused another of slowing down the line by asking too many questions about the merchandise he was buying. No one was hurt.