I occcasionally go to wal-mart, once every christmas and when they have a sale on mobil-one.

Yep, lots O'lowlifes there but the one in Orange isn't all that bad. I went to a wal-mart in Barstow once on the wat to the river cause my daughter discovered her life jacket didn't fit any more. Woooooo-eeee!
I bet there weren't 200 teeth in the whole store, it was just plain old ugly from one end to the other. And the smell cannot be described.

"Wal-Mart...Your official supplier of cheap, plastic ***** from Asia that you don't need."
I avoid it at all cost; I will pay more to support a local mom an pop if available.

Why do I always see a fat lady in a Tweety Bird nightshirt and house shoes in WalMart?

Very good. This is such a patronizing thread anyway. Living in Long Beach, I can't get out of WM. It's all the same.

Some funny observtions, though. Maybe WM should install a dentist.

must be a local population thing because I rarely see any of this over here. maybe the occasional poor misunderstood black woman in slippers with the 6 kids getting screamed at and beaten, her basket filled with ribeyes and t bone steaks, seafood and softdrinks, paid for with her welfare/food stamp card, her Escalade parked in the no parking zone at the front door with the (c)rap booming while she shops. we must have a better class of people here judging by all the Escalades, Cadillacs, BMWs, new Suburbans, and the occasional Jag or Mercedes parked in the handicap spots

I thought you'd sorta grown past that. Someone must have put you down hard, maybe at the GAF 3 years ago? It's not a healthy thing, you know, this vendetta you have. I'd let it go.

I do know how you feel, though. A man of wealth and taste should be accepted everywhere. In Las Vegas, they make sure of it.

I won't go to WalMart on principle. I hate the fact that they put one in here in Long Beach and it's right off the blue line (light rail station) - brings all the lowlifes in from Compton and North Long Beach and South Central and other *****holes like that. It's turned the western/northwestern section of downtown into a third-rate ghetto. Very visionary "revitalization project" there guys. . .

Frikkin' urban planners are SUCH idiots. The last thing this city needs is to be attracting all the gangbangas from da' hood into what otherwise might be a very nice, vibrant and up-and-coming downtown area. It's going to be a drag on city growth for decades.

Jeff, you haven't been around very long. Downtown LB, and, in general, downtown anywhere, has been a sewer for 30 years. Changing the name on the store doesn't select the customer. They built what sells. No one is going to build a loser. They put in some decent chain restuarants on the other side of Ocean Blvd., but I don't see how that changed the population demographics. It's still a ghetto.

You've got a point - I know the history of the town and such, but it just seems to be kind of a weird double-standard of planning incentives to try and attract development of new shops and restaurants and $400,000+ condos and then two blocks away be catering to all the dirtbag, color-wearin' hoodlums and associated types that can now conveniently be brought in here for under a buck.

Cripes, even the Pike (and I know the history of that - it used to make Coney Island look upscale) with the millions that went into redeveloping that is a little bit scary at times. Not that it's seedy, it's that it's a convenient place for the "boyz-in-the-hood" to go hang out now. They do a decent enough job patrolling it usually, but I've still seen problems over there. Ditto with the clubs and crap on Pine Avenue. It's worse than the Sunset Strip sometimes.

I was looking at some of those new condos over by the Wal-Mart - for $350k I expect better than to walk out my front door and feel like I'm in a third-world country 'cause of all the people being attracted to the Wally Mart. The analogy "like flies to schit" comes to mind. . .

Matt glad to see you didn't just do the normal tourist stuff when in Britian! If it helps I can find you even cheaper stores than Tescos. ;)

I went to Walmart quite a bit when i was vacationing on the Big Island. People seemed normal and friendly.

Hey are you insulting me?

Walking to Anfield to watch a Liverpool match with some locals was quite the eye opening experience of what the other side of UK was like. It was a real melting pot of social-economic classes.

Speaking to a drunk Swede about Muslim immigrants was also very interesting; thankfully there were other drunk Swedes that took opposing views.

No, I think I'm better than the people that shop at Wal*Mart who let their kids run rampant, wear clothes that are four sizes too small for their large frame, dress slutty, and allow their 8-year-olds to swear at them like drunken sailors. Does that clear things up?

Like it or not, The Wal-Mart syndrome is a prime example of the lowest common deminator concept. It provides a service, and although some of us may rail at it, there are millions who think it is the best thing in the world, "providing things that the 'poor' could otherwise never afford to have". Sadly, that concept is responsible in large part for that aspect of our society that lives 'from paycheck to paycheck', for whom the slogan "In Hoc Eternium" applies.

+1

never been in one. never will. has nothing to do with who shops there.

Because thats my Mother.

OHHH Uncle Millty...it was just too easy of a shot to pass by...Who really cares about the R Gruppe anyway, they are soooo yesterdays news.

WalMart was open till 11:PM last night and till 7:PM tonight. That's the Xmas spirit!

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There is no place like home.

I don't know about the hood U boyz all live in, but in my hood I seen a Brand New Lambo in the parking lot...