article_snippet.sent: Arriving at the store just ten minutes before the 12am opening time on November 28 last year, Mr Anderson ', of Middleton, Manchester, managed to get to the front of the queuing throng - beating some shoppers who had waited for up to four hours.
article_snippet.sent: But it has been marred in recent years by aggression among shoppers.
article_snippet.sent: Last November police chiefs appealed for calm after sales-crazed shoppers sparked a wave of disorder and violence.
article_snippet.sent: I even missed out on the Sainsbury’s sale at 6am because the police held me until the afternoon.
article_snippet.sent: At the time, Greater Manchester Police’s Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy said the incidents were ‘totally predictable’, and criticised supermarkets over the incidents security arrangements.