Ooh, shiny new Wal-Mart
I went to the grand opening of the new Maryville Wal-Mart to 1) annoy hippies and 2) snatch some 12 pack Coke products for $2.80. The top 5 things I saw there:
1 – Instead of importing products from slave shops in China, they just imported some Chinese children. They keep them in a big glass dome in the center of the store where you and your kids can watch them work their fingers to the bone.
2 – New buggies!
3 – Youngest employee: 73 years old.
4 – Union flyers
5 – All employees were wearing vests that said: Welcome to Wal-Mart; Death to Small Business
March 16th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Wait… what? What happened to Hunter’s Crossing? Where did they park this new behemoth?
March 16th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
The Pflugerville SuperCenter Walmart, craftily constructed without any signage of its intended uber-capitalistic purpose, is set to open any day now. I’m interested in seeing if they carry firearms or not, as the next closest 4 Walmarts have ceased to do so over the past year or so. And I have a hankering for an inexpensive lever action Marlin 336C.
March 16th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
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March 16th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Wait… what? What happened to Hunter’s Crossing? Where did they park this new behemoth?
Way out on 411 South. Hunter’s Crossing Super Wally World is still there. Alcoa is concerned about the loss of sales tax revenue. Alcoa recently legalized liquor stores. Problem solved.
March 16th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
And all the new stuff across the street from the walmart
March 16th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Let me guess. One WWB of .45 ACP, one 9mm, one random brick of .22LR, right?
March 16th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
WTF is up with you hicks calling them “buggies?” It’s a cart, fer chrissakes! A buggy is something you drive around on a beach.
Speaking of Wal-Mart, though, it’s a funny point of unification. I have a friend of mine who’s a self-described libertarian, and I’m a liberal. He and I both refuse to shop Wal-Mart, for almost identical reasons.
March 16th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
both are acceptable. and we put our groceries in a poke.
March 17th, 2007 at 9:20 am
WTF is up with you yankees calling them “carts?” It’s a buggy, dangit! A cart is a big wooden thing you haul around behind a horse.
March 18th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Well, we could argue that when introduced buggies were far similar to traditional buggies than carts, which historically were two wheeled but ultimately, it is just implies more fun to have buggy races rather than grocery cart races.
March 19th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
SOL in Pflugerville. No firearms for sale. However, did snag some inexpensive plinking ammo.
March 19th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Sadly, it seems we’re both right. Webster lists one of its definitions of “buggy” as “a small cart.”
March 19th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Oh, and I’ve always put groceries in a “bag,” although it seems most Memphians prefer to put them in a “sack.”