website celebrates the gloriously absurd scenes found in the aisles of world's largest retailer

Daily Mail ^

[traumer]

It's not often you see a goat in a department store in Britain.

Fortunately a new website is opening a window for Britons onto the bizarre, often alarming, always hilarious shoppers who patronise American budget store Wal-Mart.

'People of Wal-Mart' (www.peopleofwalmart.com), launched by three men in their 20s in August, has gone viral, becoming the latest star of the Internet. Hits increased by 700 per cent on August 27 alone.

The site features the gloriously absurd attire of Wal-Mart customers in photographs sent in by bemused fellow shoppers around the country.

And in addition to laughs, it's causing a legal and ethical storm, as outraged bloggers slam the site as defamation and an invasion of privacy.

There are images of fat people in sweatpants, a man clad in a Captain America costume, a Batmobile, a monkey, a man with his shirt open to reveal his breast implants - and of course, many, many images of mullets.

[maggief]

LOL!

[bert]

The problem is that there aren’t any people at K mart

[aruanan]

walmart: the church of white-trash.

Ya think?

[aruanan]

Is that Walter Conkrite or Captain Kangaroo?

[Yardstick]

Hegemony or harmony?

[Yardstick]

Sometimes going to Walmart can be like riding a Greyhound bus. If you take a Greyhound, you will see interesting people, people who you will remember for the rest of your life.

[xrmusn]

(look closely)

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I would presume you are referring to the ‘smiley face’?

Thought (vainly) I was the only one that caught it..in fact that is ‘all’ I saw in that pic........

DOM???? I think not.....<: <: <:

[xrmusn]

Check his hat out...

USAF Vet “Flying High”?.....

Almost looks like a police lineup photo....

What color shoes does one where with a roll back ‘dot’ sack dress?

[Yardstick]

I didn’t see the smiley face the first time. Perfectly coordinated with the yellow dress!

[savedbygrace]

No comment needed:

[StarFan]

OMG #43 leaves me speechless.

[jiggyboy]

Youtube just started sharing advertising money with people who get a lot of hits on videos. The guy who made the video of his kid coming back from the dentist has made about $25K.

[rawhide]

That ain’t nothing. I have seen college students early in the morning waiting at bus stops to go to class in their pajamas, at the local university here in my town. They just roll out of bed, never change, get up and go to class. Hilarious!