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haha thats awsome!
i wonder how many people in the world have said that at one point in their lives
I have a concern about just how casual a place the dollar store is. Is it fundamentally more casual than Walmart? And how does one get more casual than cut off jeans and flip-flop shoes?
So where did this snippet originate from?
I am not shocked, anyone ignorant enough to support Walmart is going to be equally ignorant about all aspects of life.
Hum, guess I go to the wrong Walmart around here:)
Haha, nice find (-: Complete Redneckness
Yeah, she has to wear her clean sweat suit to Walmart.
What’s wrong with that? I love a place whereI can get my beef jerky, Schlitz, 60W light bulbs, and season 2 of Dukes of Hazark on VHS all at once. Don’t matter if I have to shower first to get all that.
Ah never been to a Wahl Mart b’fore. Didn’t know you had to dress up to go there, but ah guess, ya can’t go there nekkid!
That’s a great quote!! LOL. It’s like my uncle who used to get a shower, and have a shave before the big hockey game would come on TV! Go figure.
C. Flowers – that’s just superstition. Better than those that never wash a game day shirt, no matter how rank…
Oddly, I can see this. On my last Saturday night foray into Wally World to pick up some Mobile 1 synthetic, I found the place was overrun with pre-teen, and young teen girls. I guess its now the place to be on a Saturday.
When I was young, kids would hang out at the mall or in the parking lot, but with the advent of open-air arcades replacing malls, and security running off parkers and cruisers, I guess congregating at Walmart is the thing to do. If you want to shop, go to Dollar Shop, but go to Walmart to be seen.
For those people that wants to see Wal-Mart fail tell me what they would do with the 1.2 million employees? Do you think all the small Mom an Pop retail stores they replaced offered great salaries and benefits? It like people complaining of sweat shops and child labor in poorer countries. It’s not like they rounded up the children at the country club pool and made them work, they were starving anyway. To get rid of the Wal-Marts of the world all you have to do is convince everyone to consume far less product, and pay substantially more for what they do buy. Good luck with that Utopian dream.
I’ve seen a realtiy porn website where a couple of guys hang out in 99 cent shops and pick up unsuspecting teens by offering them lots of money for a “photo session”. Once they get back to their place the offer gets higher and the young (naive– and really cute) teens get down.
Money rules. MONEY IS GOD. I can wait for the rest of my life for a woman to land in my lap OR I can call up Yellow Pages Escorts and have a woman over in 20 minutes. God doesn’t make things happen. MONEY DOES. Therefore Money is more POWERFUL than God.
Uh. so where is this 99-cent store?
Who says Wal-Mart has to close? I’d rather force them to pay reasonable wages and benefits, even if that means they have to increase their prices a little.
Many people who work at Wal-Mart are on Medicaid. So in effect, we’re subsidizing the health care Wal-Mart won’t provide with our tax dollars. So their prices are artificially low, as they couldn’t get away with them without either providing no health care whatsoever or without what is in effect a government subsidy.
I don’t think the government should be subsidizing one of the world’s largest companies.
holy 5#!7, david, you’ve got some issues!
but, back on topic, have you seen most people in wal-mart? if that’s “all dressed up”… wtf is dressed down?
David –
re picking up girls at 99cent stores for photo sessions:
Wrestling on TV is real also.
People that shop at Walmart either are ignorant or just have no social conscience. We know for a fact that 52% of the US population already falls in that category… is it any wonder that Walmart is succesful AND has those that defend it?
The Dollar Store is my favorite place to shop.
I can buy generic Claritin for less then ½ what it costs at the drug store and less then ¼ for Claritin brand.
I can get my Folgers Coffee for $5 It costs $6.50 or more at the supermarket.
I can buy brand name hand soap (Dial) for half what it costs elsewhere.
I buy 20 lb bags of dog food for $5. Even Wal-Mart charges $7 for their brand and my dog won’t eat it.
And I don’t need to dress up fancy either. Regular sweats are not a problem there, they help you blend in with the “experience”.
I’ll be honest, I don’t really understand the hatred and “social conscious” arguments against Walmart. I personally don’t shop there for standard consumer reasons. I find their prices are not competitive compared alternative choices such as Target. I dislike shopping in a zoo like enviroment (My wife, bless her heart, is the one that puts up with Target which is also a zoo like environment) Lastly, nothing I need in the quality I desire is generally offered at Walmart. However, if Walmart had something I wanted, I wouldn’t feel any remorse at shopping there.
The ridiculous aspect to this story is the presumption that there is any sort of dress code for Walmart, Target or even a standard grocery store.
hehehe thats awsome
only in america
I wonder what Ms. Jackson would wear to Nordstrom?
Just as a point of extra-terrestrial biology, isn’t Tall and Wookie redundant?
Found the article…
The Town Talk of Alexandria-Pineville Louisiana
I see some rather childish remarks in this collection. you people need to get a life. If walMart goes away there will be 10 walmart knock-off on the street in five minutes. If you own stock, or have a 401K you are part of the problem. You demand instant returns on your piddly investment and all companies respond to your demand by cutting costs any way they can. Why do you think that somany companies are doing away with pension plans and medical care for retirees, IT COST MONEY that you want in your dividend check.
enough said
Rodeo Bum
Thank you. You just enlightened me to the connection between my 401-k and what to wear when shopping. It had just not occurred to me until you pointed it out.