Does Wal-Mart think its customers are losers?
How many of you shop at Wal-Mart? I admit that
I do, as I was there last night at 2am trying to sober up and buy my dad a Father's
Day present. I figured that a book on real estate investing would be great since
he is reaching retirement age (or getting old, but I'm trying to be nice about
it). But it turns out that Wal-Mart does not have a single book on investing,
or books on any ways to build wealth. They have plenty of trashy paperback sex
novels, every type of magazine with celebrity gossip garbage on the cover, books
by mind-rot best-selling authors such as Tom Clancy and John Grisham, lots of
prayer-inspirational type stuff, and Bill Clinton's autobiography, but not a single
book on how to get richer or smarter. Does Wal-Mart think its customers are too
stupid to appreciate wealth-building literature? Is Wal-Mart afraid its clientele
might get rich, move out of the trailer park, and start shopping at Target? Would
Wal-Mart prefer to have stupid yet poor customers in order to pull the wool over
their eyes with their "Always Low Prices" scheme? There is some sort of conspiracy
theory at work here.
Another thing is that they don't have clothes for guys who are tall and in good
shape. I can't find shoes or pants my size to save my life. All the pants are
36x30, which are officially troll-like proportions, and the max shoe size of 14
also shouts volumes about what Wal-Mart thinks of the size of their male customers'
feet, which have a direct correlation with weiner size. So Wal-Mart must think
their customers are 5 feet tall, have short feet, and pack little love guns. In
other words, some executive in Bentonville watched Lord of the Rings and confused
the proportions of a hobbit to those of a normal human being.
I could go on about Wal-Mart and include some ranting about the mistreatment of
their workers and management as well as their abuse of eminent domain, but that's
been done to death. However, their assumptions that their customers are short,
stupid trolls is ground-breaking. Unfortunately, telling people to boycott Wal-Mart
is like asking people to boycott reality shows: It's a good idea, but most of
the population is too stupid, dependent, and weak to do so. Compared to the alternatives
of shopping at Target (too expensive), Kmart (too crappy), and malls (too fascist,
"oh you can't wear the American flag bandannas that we sell because the owner
might wet his pants"), some morons might just think that Wal-Mart is the
least of all evils.
Back to how much I am too good to shop at Wal-Mart...