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In Allentown, Pennsylvania, about 100 construction workers were arrested because they were suspected of being illegal aliens. They were working on a new Wal-Mart Supercenter. A new documentary is out that portrays Wal-Mart as the evil empire corporation we'd like to think it is.
Wal-Mart isn't as bad as we might think. It's like a freeway. We don't hate it because it's there and is more convenient for us. We hate it because it seems that everyone else and their brother is taking advantage of it at the same time we are. I actually like shopping at Wal-Mart, but I don't use it as a one-stop shopping place. I usually get my meats at another store. I shop for clothes at another store. And I do not get my oil change at Wal-Mart. I'm in and out in no time.
What irritates me about Wal-Mart is that people have to be carrying on conversations with each other in the aisle and they're standing just right in front of that box of Cheerios that you want. Or that some stocker has a whole section blocked with products. I don't like Wal-Mart because every time I run out of deoderent, there is also a person in that aisle having to sniff every stick and check to see if someone hasn't previously used it.
I don't like Wal-Mart because when I'm in the check-out lane, the yuppie mother is too busy scheduling her next nails appointment on her cell phone as her two-year-old child must play with my groceries on the conveyerbelt. And what I really don't like is that the cashier can't wait the extra five seconds for me to get on before she starts ringing up the person behind me.
But you know what, if I wasn't at Wal-Mart, I would experience the same things at K-Mart. If not at K-Mart, then at Target. If not at Target, then at Piggly Wiggly. If not at Piggly Wiggly, then at Food Lion. It's the same place at each and every retail store in America.
People criticize Wal-Mart, but for why? Because the prices are cheaper?
No, we don't like it because we want to stick it to corporate America. If Wal-Mart were to crumple, a new retail chain would pop up. Nothing will change.