Reason 8,475,232,997 to hate Walmart

I don’t shop at Walmart.  My number one reason has nothing to do with how they treat labor, how they ruin small towns, or anything like that.  It’s rather quite simple: there is no Walmart near me.  In the vast suburbs of northern tax-free Delaware, Walmart is nowhere near where I live or where I shop. 

Walmart has a culture of low-prices, but they’re only pennies less than Target for any item.  It’s not worth the extra gas I’d spend to schlep all the way there.  But the other reason is that even if it’s the nicest Walmart in the country, it’s still a Walmart.  I don’t know how things are in other parts of the country (if I’m traveling from state to state, it’s to visit ballparks, not Walmarts), but Walmarts up here are cluttered and unorganized, have long checkout lines, and have a certain skeevy factor about them.  I’m sure I’m just stating the obvious, as there are countless blogs that go into this ad nauseum. 

Like www.peopleofwalmart.com.  This blog is hilarious.  It chronicles the “characters” that shop at Walmarts across the country.  Do a google search, and there isn’t a people-of-target dot-com.  And I don’t know what it is about Walmart, but it just attracts people like this, even up here.  You can imply some of these people live in trailers, or as we like to say in Delaware “manufactured housing”, but I’m sure some like in shacks, hobbles, caves, etc.  OK, but for a gem like this one, there’s always a story like this one to counter it.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/arizona-couple-suing-bathtime-photos-prompt-wal-mart/Story?id=8624533&page=3

So this couple has some pictures they want to develop.  OK, probably digital images, but who’s arguing semantics here?  Oh, that’s right, me.  So they have the obligatory pictures of their cute kids in the bathtub, you know, the ones all junior-high kids fear their parents will blow up to poster-sized and put on display at a school assembly, or simply whip them out when they meet the boyfriend/girlfriend before the first date.  Yes kids, we really do this for this sole purpose.  But it’s NOT to swap them creepy people on the internet who have to register with the local governments and are not allowed to give out candy at Halloween. 

Now I could insert a punchline about living in Arizona, or how Conservatives are ruining the country, or even how hippies are letting their kids run around the house nekkid.  But I think that in today’s society that awards fifth-place trophies and is hyper-letigious (I still think they should sue the BALLS off Walmart), I think the lesson learned here is to invest the money in a photo printer.

Hi, my name is Chris, and apparently, I’m a child pornographer…