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Stranger Than Wal-Mart

"Some 138 million Americans shop at Wal-Mart each week, making it perhaps the single most unifying cultural force in the country."
Chris Anderson, The Long Tail

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Punchline| Jan Wilbur

Maybe it's just me but it seems like people move through stores without paying any attention to the people coming towards them or the things going on around them. They are going to stay on path regardless of who or what is coming their way. I work in a retail store and we have to drive forklifts and other equipment through the store aisles while people are shopping. The lifts horn is beeping and lights are flashing and it is being led by a flag person. One time on a crowded day I was driving and another associate was flagging me. We came up to an aisle and let the people through. We started to proceed when one lady, dragging her husband along, walked in front of us and stopped to look at something at the end of the aisle (horn still beeping) then she proceeded to the next end of aisle to look at something else. Four aisles later she noticed us, gave her husband a bump, squinted up her chubby little face and screeched in her screechy little voice to her husband, "get out of their way".

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