So, I bowed to my poverty today and shopped at WalMart for the first time in 10 years…and I will NOT be doing that again. I did get diapers for 5 bucks, but it wasn’t worth my sanity, my cleanliness, or my SOUL.
It was exactly what I expect WalMart to be – dirty, smelly, full of rude people, and generally yucky. My cart was sticky, the whole place smelled like pee and cheap plastic, the cashier sneezed in her open hand and proceeded to scan all my items with her germy hand, and in the 30 minutes I was in the place, I witnessed two women abusing their children. One woman said to her three or four year old, and I quote, “If you ask for your father one more time, I’m shipping you off to Iraq with him.” How pleasant. About 5 minutes later, I watched a young mother slap her 5 month old baby and tell her to “Quit whining!”
You know, statistically, if people were abusing their kids at Target, I would have seen it by now. I’ve been to Target about 500 times in my life, and I’ve been to WalMart about 5 times. Yet, every time I’ve been in WalMart, I witness something morally reprehensible…seems statistically off, doesn’t it??
I just felt disgusted, and disgusting, when I left. I literally had the urge to leave my $30.00 of crap in the cart and run screaming into Target. I totally reminded myself of why I do not shop at WalMart. You know, in addition to them treating their employees like garbage, giving money to Dubya, and censoring their DVDs and CDs…it’s just nasty. I slathered myself and my daughter in hand sanitizer when we left.
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July 12, 2008 at 1:57 pm
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July 13, 2008 at 1:06 am
Johnny
If they treat their children like that in public, I don’t want to think about what they do at home. Geezus.
July 14, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Stephi
As much as I would like to buy everything from local shops and little markets, Wal Mart prices can’t be beat. We went to the Super Wal Mart in Timmoinum this weekend (not sure which one you went to). It was very clean and bright. Sure, there was some white trash here and there but for the most part regular moms trying to save some money. In fact, I ran into a doctor I used to work with at Hopkins. We stopped going to the Target on Joppa road because of the low class customers. I think it just depends on the location. Morally, I am opposed to going to Wal Mart and it took a lot of convincing for my first visit, but as far as the customers, products and the building, it wasn’t so bad.
We were able to get film developed, $4.00 ORGANIC pjs for the baby and groceries all in the same place.
July 17, 2008 at 10:37 pm
April
I hate Walmart! Hate Hate Hate it! Did I mention I hate it? LOL! I can’t tell you the last time I shopped there, I really wish we had a Target nearby the closest is an hour away.
July 29, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Mariah (host bbc april-08)
Jus wanted to say. I know the same feelings of entering into the Walmart void. It’s always filthy,smelly and just down right dirty. And more than not you got rude employees who either can’t speak english well or just hate there job so much. They look at you like it’s not there “job” to help you out.lol