[Forgotten Amendments]

Wal-Mart video records every square inch of the store 24 hours a day, for liability reasons, mostly from customers but also from employees. And even when the store is closed and empty, in case anyone breaks in.

So does Costco. But, if they incriminate cops, the tapes will wind up like IRS emails.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

But, if they incriminate cops, the tapes will wind up like IRS emails.

Like the tapes at Costco in Las Vegas.

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Wal-Mart might not release them, but they would never destroy them, just lock them in a secure vault at their headquarters.

The reason for this is that they are a totally top-down organization. Even a box store manager has little say in what happens in his store, to the point where the store temperature of every store is determined by their headquarters from afar.

It can get surreal at times, because they have the world’s largest inventory database system. There had been a hurricane in Florida, and another one was expected soon, so they used this database to determine what people bought as emergency supplies.

Two things were far and away at the head of the list: beer and strawberry Pop-tarts. So they sent a huge convoy of semi-trucks to Florida with those two items. And the silly computer was right, they sold every bit of it.