Wherein I expound upon a true and indisputable fact

[Chad Sexington]

Wal-Mart is despair.

That it was what it is made of. The ingredients for building a Wal-Mart are as follows: ignorance, greed, obesity and despair. It's 99.9% the last one there.

Wal-Mart is a special hell. You walk in there and immediately are destroyed. You're lost, crippled and alone. It doesn't matter how you arrived, you've been stripped of what made you human. Now you are naught but despair and longing for what may have once been humanity, but it is a vague memory and you can barely fight for it.

The diffused lighting stuns you.

Where are you

Who are you

Is time real

This is death. This is eternity.

Why is that obese man wearing a fox tail and tugging on his corpulent wife's thong?

Because you are sinful.

 

[bhamv3]

Plus its stock dropped today!

Stupid Wal-Mart.

 

[Tress]

I like Walmart. It makes me feel better about my own life. For example, thinking "At least I'm not in a Walmart right now" makes me feel better about almost any situation.

 

[Emrys]

Does that mean those of us who work/used to work there are devils?
Excellent!

 

[Tress]

No, I believe it makes you The Damned.

 

[blotsfan]

I shop at walmart. It has low prices on things that I buy.

 

[Dave]

It's also the cheapest place to buy groceries.

 

[Tress]

I shop at walmart. It has low prices on things that I buy.

In all seriousness, I think some Walmarts are hell pits while others are just large stores with cheap items. It really varies by location. I've been to one around here that was perfectly fine, but the one closest to me is a horrible, awful, filthy place filled with sad and/or disgusting people.

 

[Hylian]

Wal-Mart is a special place.

It is a place that simultaneously makes me feel better about myself and yet depletes my hope for humanity, but maybe those two things are not unrelated.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

I try to enter a Wal*Mart as few times as possible

 

[Dave]

I try to enter a Wal*Mart as few times as possible

When you have a family and get on a budget, this will change.

 

[Azurephoenix]

When you have a family and get on a budget, this will change.

Hard to argue with this... though personally I have managed to stay out of WalMart more often than not.

 

[Gusto]

I once went to a WalMart in Michigan.

 

[GasBandit]

I bought a machete from walmart for 12 dollars.

It was the best christmas ever.

 

[Azurephoenix]

I bought a machete from walmart for 12 dollars.

It was the best christmas ever.

That's gotta be some quality steel there

 

[Frank]

I once went to a WalMart in Michigan.

Man, just listening to the Comedy Button gives me an idea of what that might've been like but my imagination probably doesn't live up.

 

[drawn_inward]

When you have a family and get on a budget, this will change.

The folks that I know that get all uppity about Walmart, shop at Target. Besides, living in the middle of the U.S. means that most of your produce/fish isn't going to be fresh; even if you go to Sprouts/Whole Foods.

I eat at McDonald's.
I shop at Walmart.

 

[Emrys]

No, I believe it makes you The Damned.

Well, I escaped, so that makes me The Darned.

 

[fade]

I buy things from Walmart. I think of it as a building in which I exchange money for goods. I honestly have no other opinion of it. My wife does. Maybe it's because I grew up poor.

 

[WasabiPoptart]

When you have a family and get on a budget, this will change.

Nope, hasn't changed for me. I go there when I am absolutely desperate to find something (like how it is the only store here that sells kid's shorts year round). I rarely even go to the NEX/AAFES stores because they carry a lot of low quality items and high priced designer crap I don't want or need. I'd rather spend more money for better made/quality items so I don't have to replace them over and over.

 

[Gared]

Nope, hasn't changed for me. I go there when I am absolutely desperate to find something (like how it is the only store here that sells kid's shorts year round). I rarely even go to the NEX/AAFES stores because they carry a lot of low quality items and high priced designer crap I don't want or need. I'd rather spend more money for better made/quality items so I don't have to replace them over and over.

But, isn't food the one household item that, by definition, has to be replaced over and over?

 

[GasBandit]

For purposes of this discussion, are we counting Sam's Clubs and CostCo stores as wal-mart equivalents?

 

[PatrThom]

I once went to a WalMart in Michigan.

I've seen the pictures.

I live in a Michigan community which is debating whether or not to demolish a church to put up a Wal~Mart.
Truly, it is out of control.

--Patrick

 

[Gared]

For purposes of this discussion, are we counting Sam's Clubs and CostCo stores as wal-mart equivalents?

I think we'd have to. And after shopping at several of the Costco locations around here, I'd have to say that Costco customers are just as shockingly degenerate as WalMart customers, except that they have more money to be shockingly degenerate with.

 

[GasBandit]

In that case, people can STFU, cause Sam's Club and CostCo rule, when it comes to groceries.

 

[Gared]

In that case, people can STFU, cause Sam's Club and CostCo rule, when it comes to groceries.

Indeed. Which reminds me, I really need to get my membership renewed. It's getting to be that time of year when I crave a good standing rib roast, and theirs are always much cheaper, and of similar or better quality, than the grocery stores in the area. Mmmm.... standing rib roast.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

I think CostCo treats its employees like humans.

 

[sixpackshaker]

I think a lot of my Wal-Mart hate comes from the fact that I remember when they were a decent company.

 

[WasabiPoptart]

But, isn't food the one household item that, by definition, has to be replaced over and over?

I don't know if the WalMart closest to me sells groceries. It's too far away for me to go grocery shopping there any way.

 

[Dave]

I don't know if the WalMart closest to me sells groceries. It's too far away for me to go grocery shopping there any way.

They are building a Wal*Mart grocery store about 5 blocks from my house. I could hardly be happier.

 

[jwhouk]

It's also the cheapest place to buy groceries.

Outside of Aldi's, of course. But there, you need a quarter for a shopping cart.

 

[Zappit]

Someone's gotta make Target look good.

 

[blotsfan]

Outside of Aldi's, of course. But there, you need a quarter for a shopping cart.

And have to pay for grocery bags.

 

[strawman]

Outside of Aldi's, of course. But there, you need a quarter for a shopping cart.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:29855

 

[Krisken]

I go out of my way to eat at local restaurants and shop at local stores despite not being very wealthy. For food, though, it's very tough. The only place locally that sells grocery items and isn't a chain of some sort is a very small market.