So it is no big secret that Wal-Mart wants to take over the world. It reminds me of the corporation in Wall-E, Buy-N-Large, with its logo on everything. (The rampant consumerism in that movie also reminds me of wal-mart.)
Side note: I am about to throw some information at you about Wal-Mart from it’s Wikipedia site. Most people who have been around me while I was doing a research paper know I do not consider Wikipedia a credible source since any schmuck with an internet connection can write an article and post it. I consider getting serious research material from Wikipedia about as reliable as asking an eight year old boy about sex. The jest might be right but there is A LOT missing.
Anyway, wal-mart, according to Wikipedia, has over eight thousand stores in fifteen different countries under fifty-five different names. I am not going to list all of the different countries or names because I am simple not that interested but, needless to say, wal-mart is pretty damned ubiquitous. In fact, I think if wal-mart where to join forces with Starbucks and AARP, they could take over the world. (I am a little frightened by AARP because they seem to be garnering more and more influence in the world. I see a conspiracy of mammoth proportions, but that could be just me.) As I have written before, wal-mart of the southern identity for decades now. It has started to invade the internet now too.
Obviously wal-mart has it’s own website. I have shopped it a few times actually and I hate it. You would think that such a massive corporation would spend the money to make a really effective and usable website for it’s main web presence but I think they drank too much of their own Kool-Aid and bought it at a discount. I know that as a mal-mart shopper of multiple decades I should understand that value and bargain are not synonymous and most of the time cheaper means crappy plastic that breaks. I also thought that someone at the wal-mart headquarters would realize that a great website would make them more money than a crap website and, in the end, be a better value. Anyway, Walmart.com sucks because it so clunky to navigate. Bah. So wal-mart’s other web presence is what everyone else says about it.
I googled walmart and I got some interesting stuff. The first thing that came up that wasn’t either multiple ways to get to wal-mart’s website was peopleofwalmart.com which has become an internet phenomena. It is a place where people go to upload pictures that they take of people at their local wal-mart. Every time I get ready to go to wal-mart I examine myself and ask myself one vital question: do I look decent enough not to show up on POWM? If the answer is yes, then I go. I think if the answer is ever no, I might end up in therapy. Please. I contribute to a site called urlybits.com (formally the daily shite) and the founders of that site also have a site isviral.com and they have a great video of a woman getting mad that her mother ended up on POWM and going to FoxNews about it. It is epic on so many levels.
Most of the other search results were people talking about how much they hate wal-mart. People hate wal-mart. They write about it, a whole freaking lot. I was shocked by how many site there were talking about the various ways wal-mart is evil. People really hate wal-mart and after writing about it for a month I actually understand.
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