Comments on: The Widening Gyre

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:59:39 +0000

All over that shizznit:

http://ayyyy.com/2009/10/01/britney-spears-the-road-not-taken/

By: dangster

dangster — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:07:26 +0000

I am a Target shopper as well. In my town, Target and Wal-Mart are directly across the street of each other. I detest going into this particular Wal-Mart because the parking lot is so poorly designed (often causing traffic jams–in a parking lot!), and the store layout is atrocious. By going to Target, I save myself half the time it would have taken to get the same items at Wal-Mart. Sure, I may have saved a few pennies at Wal-Mart, but my time is worth much more than that.

By: class factotum

class factotum — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:25:37 +0000

La BellaDonna, I agree that the WalMart prices are not always the best and why bother to drive so far just to save a few pennies, especially if shopping at such an establishment so violates one’s principles. :)

I am a Target shopper, myself. Actually, I prefer the Will of the Good and the Bay of the e.

By: Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:11:53 +0000

These aren’t a random sample of Wal-Mart customers. They’re the extremes. The Manolo can take comfort in the Law of Large Numbers. As my husband tells his MBA students, Walmart is so big that anything that can happen in a Wal-Mart will happen, so managers need to be prepared to improvise. This is the example he uses: http://www.qconline.com/more/regs.html

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:02:51 +0000

I don’t see this as laughing at the poor *because* they’re poor. Even the poorest people in the U.S. manage to put on pants and avoid vulgar messages.

A few years ago, Walmart advertised several articles of clothes that would have been perfectly presentable in a nice office. Likewise, thrift stores are full of decent clothes. People at all levels have choices in dressing themselves.

By: mrl

mrl — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:49:26 +0000

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=5909

Watch the Manolo’s head ’splode! Crocs + Snuggie = Horror

By: mrl

mrl — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:43:13 +0000

Ayy, Manolo. You picked the only pic on that site that was easy on the eyes. Totally inappropriate dress for vegetable shopping but still niiiice.

By: Jane2

Jane2 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:21:41 +0000

Hmmm…the site reminds the Jane of the lipstick on the pig…it is still mocking those of less status than the exalted internet denizens who ostensibly never cross the Walmart’s threshhold, unless at the midnight when it is safe that the friends are not looking. I am waiting for the “People of Saks.com”….the black, the botox, the beige…..

By: La BellaDonna

La BellaDonna — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:25:18 +0000

La BellaDonna is somewhat bemused by La Holandaisa’s statement, a time when overindulgence did not exist- – surely that is the hyperbole, for the dramatic effect, yes? There has NEVER been the time, since civilization began, when the overindulgence did not exist. There was a time when fewer people could overindulge, and perhaps other people’s current choice of overindulgence does not appeal to you, but that does not mean that it never existed before.

That said, of course La BellaDonna, she prefers “dress attractively” to “swear words on T-shirts and ball caps”. However, she takes some comfort from the fact that the young lady in the photograph, she appears to be shopping in the vegetable aisle, and this is the good sign, is it not?

Hola to the Class Factotum! La BellaDonna, she has read that although the Walmart, it beats its suppliers into the ground whenever possible, not all of the items sold by the Walmart are the less expensive. Sometimes the savings, it is the three or four pennies; sometimes the cost, it is MORE. Caveat emptor, as always.

By: class factotum

class factotum — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:11:47 +0000

My husband’s socialist, atheist, leftist (their words), Birkenstock-wearing, Mother-Jones subscribing, protesting, activist, union-supporting Wal-Mart haters?

Shop at Wal-Mart.

You just can’t beat those prices.