Artificial Scarcity: The Cabbage Patch Kids Retail Riots

Have you ever witnessed perfectly ordinary adults engaging in brutal physical combat in the aisles of a department store just to secure a mass-produced piece of plastic? The unbelievable violence that erupted over Cabbage Patch Kids in 1983 remains one of the most terrifying displays of consumer hysteria ever documented. This unprecedented retail chaos was not a random accident, but the explosiv...