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Re: Wal-Mart - is it really THAT evil?
« Reply #15 on: October 08, 2007, 06:35:13 PM »
Ah Tink, thanks!  I really laughed at that one. :D
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Re: Wal-Mart - is it really THAT evil?
« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2007, 06:38:27 PM »
I dunno if your state has Super Targets (when I went to seattle people laughed when i asked), but they're like a Wal-Mart super-center only :
*the parking spaces are straight instead of angled
*they have like 100 checkout lanes and many of them are manned at all times
*they have a very strict policy regarding security (hire out security personnel/police instead of a greeter) so they don't have a draconian return policy
*they are waaaaay cleaner and don't look like a warehouse (instead of a built in McDonalds the one in my area has a built-in starbucks).

Downside of course is that they're more expensive than wal-mart, but seriously the difference according to most studies shows a difference of maybe 2 or 3%.

http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/target/walmart_versus_target01.html

This study showed a 4.06% difference. But I think it's worth it.

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Re: Wal-Mart - is it really THAT evil?
« Reply #17 on: October 08, 2007, 09:34:28 PM »
I clapped when I read that, Tink.

Nice. =)


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Re: Wal-Mart - is it really THAT evil?
« Reply #18 on: October 08, 2007, 09:36:00 PM »
There's a Super Target about 10 minutes from me.
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Re: Wal-Mart - is it really THAT evil?
« Reply #19 on: October 08, 2007, 09:44:06 PM »
While searching for Walmart things... I found these two gems.

When is someone going to write the Wal-Mart Harlequin for gals like Debra?

‘..she couldn’t quite recall what made her walk to the Home Improvement aisle in the first place. All she could remember was the moment their eyes met. Daryl, this fine specimen if manhood, was wearing his Nascar cap at a rakish angle and a belt buckle fashioned from the door handle of a Ford Pinto still visible beneath his moderate paunch. Astonishingly, there didn’t seem to be even one chili stain on his wifebeater and his tooth to tattoo ratio was almost in double figures. ‘Some dandy!’ she thought ‘ Just as well I put on my clean slippers this mornin’ afore goin’ out.’ Could this man be the father of her future children…as well as the four she already had waiting for her back at the trailer?’
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Re: Wal-Mart - is it really THAT evil?
« Reply #20 on: October 08, 2007, 09:46:38 PM »
We don't have greeters.
We're all like: "You came here, out of your own free will. We Own you now. Leave your soul at the door."
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Re: Wal-Mart - is it really THAT evil?
« Reply #21 on: October 08, 2007, 10:04:41 PM »
'We'??
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Re: Wal-Mart - is it really THAT evil?
« Reply #22 on: October 08, 2007, 11:24:35 PM »
We are Legion.
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Re: Wal-Mart - is it really THAT evil?
« Reply #23 on: October 08, 2007, 11:29:27 PM »
So what do you carry in aisle 5?   Plasma Lasers and Anti-Rad pills?
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"and yet still nothing has made it to BC's signature!"-KMD

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Re: Wal-Mart - is it really THAT evil?
« Reply #24 on: October 09, 2007, 02:30:29 AM »
Pshh. Why would we give the customers the good stuff?
Nope. Just Rad-Away. Laced with Psycho.
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