2012 rush to Pingo Doce
On 1 May 2012, as a result of a campaign that guaranteed a 50% discount for clients who purchased more than €100 in products, there was a rush to the Pingo Doce chain of hypermarkets, on the 369 stores all over Portugal. This sale resulted in an abnormal flow of vehicles and shoppers to the stores, and the Polícia de Segurança Pública (Police for Public Security) registered more than fifty incidents, among them civil disorder and assaults, more than half having taken place in the Lisbon region.