Readers of my other blogs, AdScam and Adhurl, will be aware that I have had a long running commentary concerning the events preceding and after the worlds fastest account gain and loss. Namely the acquisition of Wall-Mart by FCB/Draft, only to lose it five days later over all kinds of accusations of jiggery pokery between the agency and Julie Roehm, Wal-Mart’s “Change Artist,” who’s major change was being out of a job barely nine months after she started it.
Anyway, the point of this diatribe is that I hadn’t been in a Wal-Mart for years, until today. The reasons for this are numerous; suffice it to say that I think their labor policies are outrageous, but even more important… They are so big and full of crap, it’s depressing to walk around a place as big as Terminal 3 at Heathrow, and not find anything you would have in your house.
OK, so I’m going to backtrack here. After a big on-line search, the only place that carried a TV of exactly the right size I was looking for was Wal-Mart, so I went there and bought it. It seems to look and work fine, and it was outrageously cheap. I know that the people who made it in “Ding-Dong” province or wherever, got paid a bowl of rice, and I’m going to be ashamed every time I turn it on. But damn, they were the only place I could find that had exactly what I wanted.
But I promise never to go there again. Besides which, it’s full of very ugly people.
George Parker
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