Best "People of Walmart" Ever.

DriftingByTheStorm

Lolz

Henry Lawrence Garfield
From last December. Sorry, I don't check PPoWM too often.

Haha. Lolz.

mikepegg44

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

Lolz

Henry Lawrence Garfield
From last December. Sorry, I don't check PPoWM too often.

Haha. Lolz.

that is fantastic

...I can't help but wonder what a young Mr. Rollins would have said about an old Mr. Rollins shopping at walmart

thanks for that...I would hate to be a celebrity of any kind..

brianlux

I'm not at all a fan of Walmart, that mega store that kills off small independent businesses in towns all across America but I'm going to very much contradict myself here and say Henry Rollins can shop any where he damn well pleases!

I love that guy. When I need to kick start myself, get out of a funk, shake myself out of the doldrums, or get myself back in gear, I pick up a Rollins book and start reading.

Hack or pack!

StillHere

that is EXCELLENT.

Ran into Larry Holmes and wife in (i wanna say Target) a couple of years ago
and he cut me off in traffic at the Del River bridge on sunny day.....nice caddy Larry!

(big time celeb in his own right, but just a regular local guy round these parts)

hedonist

I dig Rollins and have shopped at Walmart maybe twice in my life...more due to locale, probably.

I'm just curious though...why's it OK when HE shops there, but the other dumbfucks who do are...dumbfucks?

brianlux

hedonist wrote:

I'm just curious though...why's it OK when HE shops there, but the other dumbfucks who do are...dumbfucks?

Because he's bigger than I am.

Seriously, good question. I did admit to contradicting myself.

hedonist

brianlux wrote:

hedonist wrote:

I'm just curious though...why's it OK when HE shops there, but the other dumbfucks who do are...dumbfucks?

Because he's bigger than I am.

:P

StillHere

brianlux wrote:

hedonist wrote:

I'm just curious though...why's it OK when HE shops there, but the other dumbfucks who do are...dumbfucks?

Because he's bigger than I am.

Seriously, good question. I did admit to contradicting myself.

i have to admit shopping at walmart on a weekly (or more) basis
its the least expensive place in our area for household necessities..can't beat the prices for everyday stuff like cleaning products etc.
AND i get my meds there (free antibiotics)
NOT ASHAMED :oops: :roll: but I do have to admit there are some pretty creepy (and pretty entertaining) characters in there from time to time :shock:
(who knows, maybe I'm one of them) :fp:

mikepegg44

hedonist wrote:

I dig Rollins and have shopped at Walmart maybe twice in my life...more due to locale, probably.

I'm just curious though...why's it OK when HE shops there, but the other dumbfucks who do are...dumbfucks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-IXcrQOgm0

Monster Rain

I love the glasses on the granny chain.

brianlux

mikepegg44 wrote:

hedonist wrote:

I dig Rollins and have shopped at Walmart maybe twice in my life...more due to locale, probably.

I'm just curious though...why's it OK when HE shops there, but the other dumbfucks who do are...dumbfucks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-IXcrQOgm0

Cool!

Ok, I hate Walmart anyway but a lot of people I love and/or respect shop there. Just don't forget the little guys out there trying to keep their independent business alive.

Jason P

I may go to Wally World a few times each year, but it's usually before a vacation and I need to do some serious one-stop shopping. I'd like to say I avoid it because I support small business .... but it's really because I don't like hanging around large amounts of smelly dumb people.

hedonist

mikepegg44 wrote:

hedonist wrote:

I dig Rollins and have shopped at Walmart maybe twice in my life...more due to locale, probably.

I'm just curious though...why's it OK when HE shops there, but the other dumbfucks who do are...dumbfucks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-IXcrQOgm0

Thanks, will check this out when not at work.

mickeyrat

mikepegg44 wrote:

hedonist wrote:

I dig Rollins and have shopped at Walmart maybe twice in my life...more due to locale, probably.

I'm just curious though...why's it OK when HE shops there, but the other dumbfucks who do are...dumbfucks?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-IXcrQOgm0

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9wYqlp7 ... ure=relmfu

stargirl69

We have Asda/Walmart here it is interesting to go to,not in a good way :? But Mr Rollins can shop wherever the hell he wants in my book,the guy is a legend.I like that he looks so chuffed in the photo

PhillyPhan819

As a store manager for Walmart I kind of feel the need to speak out for it. I know they are the big evil corporation, but they too started as a very small 5-10 just 50 years ago. I would challenge that any of your 'so called' small mom and pop stores do not have the same aspirations. You think that if they had the means to expand and make more money for themselves and family members they would say nah I want to keep it small. Why do small business start? I'm thinking the answer is to make money and not ever have to work for someone again, but when this happens for someone, they are a greedy corporate beast. You all have to re-think this whole Walmart kills the small business. Also, many times when we build new stores in an area where there are many local small business we provide business planning and teachings on how to survive with a Walmart in their town. I am all for shopping in small specialty stores, just remember all big corporate stores were once what they are.

sorry for that, felt I had to defend the place that helps me by all this shit on this site.

brianlux

PhillyPhan819 wrote:

As a store manager for Walmart I kind of feel the need to speak out for it. I know they are the big evil corporation, but they too started as a very small 5-10 just 50 years ago. I would challenge that any of your 'so called' small mom and pop stores do not have the same aspirations. You think that if they had the means to expand and make more money for themselves and family members they would say nah I want to keep it small. Why do small business start? I'm thinking the answer is to make money and not ever have to work for someone again, but when this happens for someone, they are a greedy corporate beast. You all have to re-think this whole Walmart kills the small business. Also, many times when we build new stores in an area where there are many local small business we provide business planning and teachings on how to survive with a Walmart in their town. I am all for shopping in small specialty stores, just remember all big corporate stores were once what they are.

sorry for that, felt I had to defend the place that helps me by all this shit on this site.

I appreciate what you're saying here, PhillyPhan, and I certainly don't mean to offend or dismiss the hard work you do but in response to your challenge, I would say, no, not all of us who have small businesses want to grow bigger. I started my bookselling career in a used bookstore that grew to the point of not being any as enjoyable for me as it was at first so now I have my own small book business. My constant goal with that business is to refine it, not make it larger. I'm well connected with other small business owners in my town and (without having asked yet) I would say many of them are happy to remain small. I know the man who was head chef at Arco Arena (home of the Sacramento Kings). He now has a small restaurant in town and is much happier and just as well off having a small business. I've known other small business owners who actually downsized because they realized that lower overhead and a scaled down business was just as good for their pocket book and better for their blood pressure.

I'm not making this stuff up. And I'm sorry, but I the reality is Walmart has destroyed many small businesses. We just lost another neighborhood hardware store very recently. Sorry, but I have to agree with Edward Abbey: "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

markin ball

brianlux wrote:

PhillyPhan819 wrote:

As a store manager for Walmart I kind of feel the need to speak out for it. I know they are the big evil corporation, but they too started as a very small 5-10 just 50 years ago. I would challenge that any of your 'so called' small mom and pop stores do not have the same aspirations. You think that if they had the means to expand and make more money for themselves and family members they would say nah I want to keep it small. Why do small business start? I'm thinking the answer is to make money and not ever have to work for someone again, but when this happens for someone, they are a greedy corporate beast. You all have to re-think this whole Walmart kills the small business. Also, many times when we build new stores in an area where there are many local small business we provide business planning and teachings on how to survive with a Walmart in their town. I am all for shopping in small specialty stores, just remember all big corporate stores were once what they are.

sorry for that, felt I had to defend the place that helps me by all this shit on this site.

I appreciate what you're saying here, PhillyPhan, and I certainly don't mean to offend or dismiss the hard work you do but in response to your challenge, I would say, no, not all of us who have small businesses want to grow bigger. I started my bookselling career in a used bookstore that grew to the point of not being any as enjoyable for me as it was at first so now I have my own small book business. My constant goal with that business is to refine it, not make it larger. I'm well connected with other small business owners in my town and (without having asked yet) I would say many of them are happy to remain small. I know the man who was head chef at Arco Arena (home of the Sacramento Kings). He now has a small restaurant in town and is much happier and just as well off having a small business. I've known other small business owners who actually downsized because they realized that lower overhead and a scaled down business was just as good for their pocket book and better for their blood pressure.

I'm not making this stuff up. And I'm sorry, but I the reality is Walmart has destroyed many small businesses. We just lost another neighborhood hardware store very recently. Sorry, but I have to agree with Edward Abbey: "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Count me as another (former) small business owner that kept it small on purpose.

On another note, Walmart exists because we it to. If we loved mom and pop stores so much they would still be here. But in the end, the majority of us want familiarity and the lowest prices. So, that's what we get.

PJ_Soul

Walmart is so strange. Iiterally never see some of the types of people I've seen at Walmart anywhere else in society. Where do they come from?? Where are they hiding when not at Walmart.
I go to Walmart sometimes as there is one a 10 minute walk from my house and sometimes I just need something quick. But I usually avoid it... I'd like to say it's out of general principal (it's their record with workers rights that gets me). But really it's about wanting to avoid the hell that is Walmart. I mean Jesus, when did people stop caring if they're blocking everybody's way everywhere they go?
Such an unpleasant shopping experience! Walmart makes me feel full of rage, and it's unbecoming.

StillHere

I am not a supporter of Wal Mart's personnel practices
but I do have to say that in our township they do employ a lot of people that would otherwise be unemployed
how they live on that wage is another question entirely

and

i find that our local walmart is the most amusing place to shop ever@
i agree that no place attracts crazy weird characters like a walmart does

people in pajamas and slippers
maybe they are there to buy daytime clothes? i dunno
but that is so strange

almost without exception i see
a mom that looks way too young to even be a mom with a huge brood of kids either running rampant or screaming from the infant seat

a couple fighting with one another over peanuts or cereal
(and hurling insults at each other over their snack choices)

at least one, and probably more than one, nearly toothless person

a pregnant woman with a midi top and her pants worn down around the bottom of her belly

an overweight woman wearing way to little clothing

at least one homeless person (sad) that needs a shower

why do i never see these people in real everyday life
but so many of them at walmart?

is walmart secretly a reality program
meant to shock or amuse us in our quest for cheap tp and a snack?

mysticweed

StillHere wrote:

brianlux wrote:

hedonist wrote:

I'm just curious though...why's it OK when HE shops there, but the other dumbfucks who do are...dumbfucks?

Because he's bigger than I am.

Seriously, good question. I did admit to contradicting myself.

i have to admit shopping at walmart on a weekly (or more) basis
its the least expensive place in our area for household necessities..can't beat the prices for everyday stuff like cleaning products etc.
AND i get my meds there (free antibiotics)
NOT ASHAMED :oops: :roll: but I do have to admit there are some pretty creepy (and pretty entertaining) characters in there from time to time :shock:
(who knows, maybe I'm one of them) :fp:

i shop at walmart because we are poor-ish and it is convenient
i know it is a vicious cycle
and i love henry rollins afw