Wal*Mart 2
Monday, 12.10.07 @ 12:20AM 
This is the only time of year that Wal*Mart has more than two of their 24 registers open, but its still not enough to make me want to do my Christmas shopping there. I worked at Wal*Mart in the late 70s-early 80s back when it was a small midwestern chain, and Christmas was crazy, even back then. I took over the toy department temporarily one year while the woman in charge was on maternity leave. I’m still convinced that she timed her baby on purpose. I spent a lot of time putting bicycles together in the back just to hide from the Walmartians looking to save a few pennies. Not gonna do my Christmas shopping there. Nope, I’ll go downtown to the few stores brave enough to hang on or open up in that ghost town, or else order online direct from the vendor (or maybe eBay).
Harry Potter and The Dark Lord Waldemart (via Simply Left Behind)
The Wal-Mart Greeter.
Disgusting sights witnessed at Wal*Mart (and other stores).
The Wal*Mart Prank. (via Grow-A-Brain)
This is why you NEVER order custom cakes from Wal*Mart.
Wal*Mart’s latest ad campaign says that Wal*Mart saves the average family $2,400 a year. However, you don’t have to shop there to see the savings. They also don’t mention that the effect is halved if you factor in the wage depression the store’s presence brings to a community.
A hometown grocery store is fighting back against Wal*Mart and winning -for now.
The World of Wal*Mart Cartogram is a world map redrawn to show where Wal*Mart gets the biggest percentage of their products. (via Cynical-C)
Mom and Pop vs. Wal*Mart
The Wal*Mart Money Card charges you monthly, plus fees for transactions, checking your balance, and a paper statement.
Woman gets chemical burns from flip flops. (Warning: gross pictures) She contacted Wal*Mart, where she bought them, but they said “tell it to the manufacturer” -in China! (via J-Walk Blog)
Forbes slideshow: Wal*Mart takes over the world.
A couple of songs about Wal*Mart.
How Costco became the anti-Wal*Mart. Costco paid their employees an average of $17 an hour? In 2005? Where do I sign up?
BLONDES AT WAL*MART
(via Phil’s Phun)
A blonde was weed-eating her yard and accidentally cut off the tail of her cat which was hiding in the grass. She rushed her cat, along with the tail over to WALMART!
Why WALMART???
WALMART is the largest retailer in the world!!!
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While driving during a horrible snowstorm, a young blonde became disoriented and lost. She remembered what her father had once told her. ”If you ever get stuck in a snowstorm, wait for a snow plough and follow it.”
Pretty soon a snow plow came by, and she started to follow it. She followed the plough for about 45 minutes.
Finally, the driver of the truck got out and asked her what she was doing. She explained that her dad had told her if she ever got stuck in the snow, to follow a plow.
The driver nodded and said, ”Well, I’m done with the parking lot here at Wal-Mart, now you can follow me over to K-Mart
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I pulled into the crowded parking lot at the Super Wal-MartShopping Center and rolled down the car windows to make sure my Labrador Retriever pup had fresh air. She was stretched full-out on the back seat and I wanted to impress upon her that she must remain there.
I walked to the curb backward, pointing my finger at th ecar and saying emphatically, "Now you stay. Do you hear me?" "Stay! Stay!"
The driver of a nearby car, a pretty blonde young lady, gave me a strange look and said, "Why don't you just put it in park?"
Previously at Miss Cellania: Wal*Mart
Thought for today: Have you been to Wal-Mart lately? You have to be 300 pounds to get the automatic doors to open.
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Reader Comments (6)
I prefer to shop online during the holidays. It's a lot less stressful!
The Wal-Mart greeter sees two women (blondes?) enter the front of the store and stop at the pop machine in the entryway. He takes notice because they are smiling and laughing to each other... something is obviously up.
As he watches, one of them pulls some coins out of her purse and plugs them into the pop machine, looks hard at the column of buttons, and after much concentration, pushes one. When she sees the pop can fall out the slot, both women jump up and cheer and hug and high-five each other. The second woman goes through much the same routine, complete with the jumping and cheering and high-fives when the pop can appears. The greeter is baffled.
He continues to watch as he greets other customers entering the store, and the scene with the two women taking turns at the pop machine continues for quite a while -- coins, concentration, push the button, high-fives and hugs and cheering -- and they have a good sized stack of pop cans accumulated.
Finally, curiosity overcomes Mr. Wal-Mart Greeter, and he has to find out what they are doing. He approaches them and asks, "Excuse me, ladies. I couldn't help but see what a great time you're having here, but I just have to ask; what are you doing?"
One of the women looks at him just dumbstruck and says, "Well duh! We're winning!"
WalMart creates jobs in poor rural communities, and keeps prices down to make the merchandise more affordable to the poorest of society, and all without the help of the government.
Do I shop there? No. I don't shop at 7-11 or Neiman-Marcus either, but it doesn't make it a bad thing.