Rant Number 487
I know when you put kitty litter out, turds will appear. In much the same manner, if you build a Wal-Mart, they will come.
I am aware and understand the attraction of low prices and large selection in a single location. I get it, really. What I have difficulty with is how a brand new store can get so raggedy so quickly. How does a new building acquire 20 years of disarray in 2 weeks? Why do I have to negotiate around the homesteading family in aisle 6, skids of Haier air conditioners priced at $49.91, crates of decaying flavorless pale colored grapes, trash filled carts and employees smelling of sauer kraut comparing skin rashes and bad hair with each other while on a seemingly endless cigarette break in order to find a price on the 3 DVD box set of Pavarotti Sings the Songs of Travis Twitt and Other Looney Tune Favorites?
Is it really worth the effort to visit a Wal-Mart in order to purchase low cost television converter boxes using $40 discount savings cards from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration - one of many masks worn by the U.S. Department of Commerce - along with the purchase of non-discounted HDTV antennas priced anywhere from $20 to $80 to translate digital signals to your antiquated TV set that you are encouraged to replace anyway in order to receive over the air free broadcast programming to fill your home with advertising and droll, mundane, dated, unoriginal rehashed sit-coms as yet another vehicle for product placement and the brainwashing control of the family, excuse me, consumer group? Yeah, that was a question!
I no longer sport a mullet, but if I decided to take that route on a journey back to those crazy 80's, Wal-Mart offers several versions at their in-house hair salon along with pedicures and vision exams located next to the Sub-Way Restaurant just in front of the 27 closed registers and the angry cashier by the self service check-outs.
I know. They actually call Sub-Way a restaurant.
I see that I have to wake up in a few minutes to get ready to go to work. This is going to be another pleasant day. Go to work and make that money so Wal-Mart can be a reality on pay day. Hmmmm. If I choose to no longer go to Wal-Mart, I really don't need to go to work which means I won't have to get up to get ready to go to work. I smell a day off coming.
I am aware and understand the attraction of low prices and large selection in a single location. I get it, really. What I have difficulty with is how a brand new store can get so raggedy so quickly. How does a new building acquire 20 years of disarray in 2 weeks? Why do I have to negotiate around the homesteading family in aisle 6, skids of Haier air conditioners priced at $49.91, crates of decaying flavorless pale colored grapes, trash filled carts and employees smelling of sauer kraut comparing skin rashes and bad hair with each other while on a seemingly endless cigarette break in order to find a price on the 3 DVD box set of Pavarotti Sings the Songs of Travis Twitt and Other Looney Tune Favorites?
Is it really worth the effort to visit a Wal-Mart in order to purchase low cost television converter boxes using $40 discount savings cards from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration - one of many masks worn by the U.S. Department of Commerce - along with the purchase of non-discounted HDTV antennas priced anywhere from $20 to $80 to translate digital signals to your antiquated TV set that you are encouraged to replace anyway in order to receive over the air free broadcast programming to fill your home with advertising and droll, mundane, dated, unoriginal rehashed sit-coms as yet another vehicle for product placement and the brainwashing control of the family, excuse me, consumer group? Yeah, that was a question!
I no longer sport a mullet, but if I decided to take that route on a journey back to those crazy 80's, Wal-Mart offers several versions at their in-house hair salon along with pedicures and vision exams located next to the Sub-Way Restaurant just in front of the 27 closed registers and the angry cashier by the self service check-outs.
I know. They actually call Sub-Way a restaurant.
I see that I have to wake up in a few minutes to get ready to go to work. This is going to be another pleasant day. Go to work and make that money so Wal-Mart can be a reality on pay day. Hmmmm. If I choose to no longer go to Wal-Mart, I really don't need to go to work which means I won't have to get up to get ready to go to work. I smell a day off coming.
posted by RJK at
4:42 AM
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