(not that I ask, because I'm a guy and I just find it myself, but I hear women asking and always getting the right answer).
nice save :-)
Posted on 06/18/2003 7:29:28 AM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:47 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Stop. You've found it. This is the place. Americana HQ. Patriotism in a giant tin bucket. This is where souls recoil, children wail, dreams die.
This is Wal-Mart. The glorious consumer mecca, the epic wonderland/wasteland of prefab landfill merch, not only the world's largest and most powerful retailer and the most aggressive snarling frightening happy-place marketer and quite possibly the most hideously overlit soul-draining monster empire you will ever know in your entire lifetime, but also the very multibillion-dollar pseudo-Christian kingdom that censors their offerings and refuses to sell certain music CDs and bans "risqu
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Also, the people they have working there are the most professional people (in retail) I have ever encountered. They are always cheerful and always know where everything is (not that I ask, because I'm a guy and I just find it myself, but I hear women asking and always getting the right answer).
It's amazing what is in one Wal-Mart store. I can get rolls for my coins, Christmas lights for my house, seeds to plant in my garden, ant killer powder, blank CDs, cat litter and even hula-hoops.
I hate shopping with a passion but when I must go, I prefer Wal-Mart because I can then get everything in a single stop. None of that store-to-store strolling that the women do in the malls. That drives me absolutely crazy. All those little candle shops and women's clothing shops and shoe shops. How many shoe shops does a shopping mall need anyways? Then you got the little old ladies in their jogging suits "fast-walking" around the mall for exercise. Well, it might be fast-walking for them but everytime I'm in a mall, it's all I can do to keep from running them over. I hate shopping malls. Wal-Mart is where it's at. No muss. No fuss. Get it and go.
but also the very multibillion-dollar pseudo-Christian kingdom that censors their offerings and refuses to sell certain music CDs and bans "risqué" beer-'n'-babes mags like Maxim and FHM and Stuff, because, you know, pretty girls are evil.
They have that right to do that. Don't do business there if you don't like it. I don't.
one of the smallish Midwest towns the gluttonous and voracious Walton family hell-beast has invaded like a plague and you have no real remaining shopping options because Wal-Mart has killed all the small family-owned competition, well, too bad for you.
I live in the midwest, and I go to other places than Walmart. Put that in yer pipe and smoke it.
Wal-Mart is not merely a hollow and deeply frightening Christian-values mega-retailer
Christian values? Like backing Klinton?
Wal-Mart shapes ideas. They affect mind-sets. They influence cultural perspectives
Bwhahahahahahhah. Bwhahahahahahaahhahahahaha. Damnit. Time to clean the gatorade off of my keyboard. That's the stupidist thing I've read all day.
This is frightening and wrong
WTF are you trying to do with your columns? Influence people, so STFU you hypocrite.
Then for 100 million benumbed Wal-Mart regulars, Marilyn and Maxim might as well not even exist
If they want a Marilyn Manson(they're still around?) CD or Maxim mag, they can go somewhere else. I got my Kid Rock CD at Best Buy.
. Now hush up and let Daddy buy some bullets and
They still sell ammo at Walmart? I know Kmart(sucks) doesn't anymore.
state with the largest number of Wal-Marts in the entire country is, by a wide, wide margin, Texas?
Well, Walmart is from Arkansas. Next to Arkansas is Texas. Naturally there will be more Walmarts there.
Wal-Mart manipulates the culture.
Walmart manipulated Texas? Riiiiight.
They represent a type of cultural myopia and a prefab brand of hollow sexless Americana and a value system that does nothing to promote any core conviction you genuinely care about,
Cheap Chinese goods represent that?
Wal-Mart is all too happy to pummel customers with mountains of toxic processed foods
I'm having NON processed wild turkey tonight. I shot the thing myself. What does that have to do with anything? Nothing. Just PO'es pansies like this writer.
and deep deep deep this nation is in a BushCo recession
The economy was going downhill before Bush was president. Ever hear of Business cycles.
But here, have a nice Remington .22. Now scamper off and go kill something, sweetie.
A fear of weapons is a sign of sexual retardation, Mark. Freud said that.
Wal-Mart is, in short, deciding what America needs based on the shockingly uptight whims and intolerant perspectives of the hard Right
They backed Klinton. How many f'ing times do I need to say that. Besides. It's a cheap bulk store that sell cheap stuff made in China. It's business. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't like Walmart because of Klinton and their non-made in USA stuff. I don't shop there. My choice. Walmart doesn't give a rip about culture and has nothing to do with it. The "family image" is a business ploy in response to some customers.
It is a giant suckass superstore, one that aggressively works every single day to drain out any semblance of voice or personality or alternative viewpoint and works harder than any other company in the nation to kowtow to the masses and keep the nation in a nice big hole of casual blind lockstep sameness without the nation even knowing any better. Ah, just like BushCo. Just like America.
What a f'n idiot as Bryant Gumbel would say.
Except there's a bit more to it than that. Except the groups that complain about the mags are often the same ones that cheer Wal-Mart's censorship decisions, groups like the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Association (AFA), one of those desperately hyper-Christian anti-choice anti-gay anti-porn asexual pseudo-ethical groups representing "traditional" family values -- like, you know, massive reeling intolerance. And hellfire. And the end of icky tongue kissing.He's not far-off wrong about the AFA, even if he's on a tangent of Wildmonesque proportions himself. I give him some credit, he's not calling on the government to Do Something About This (at least not in this article). I thought that was de rigeur for lefties.
-Eric
Does anyone know about the Wal-Mart Clinton-AK background? The Clinton's aren't dead, ya know, and we need to remember where-of they come because they're still wandering around.
LOL!!!
Texas represents everything that is the enemy of the San Fran crowd. Blue Collar, known for oil, Republicans, guns, SUVS(Last time I was in TX (too many years ago), my dad's Bronco was called a "Texas Lincoln"), conservatives, cowboys, Southern and Western, straight talkers, football.
B&N carried Unintended Consequences.....
(not that I ask, because I'm a guy and I just find it myself, but I hear women asking and always getting the right answer).
nice save :-)
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