Full Version: Wal-mart New Hot Spot To Pick Up Dates?
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| Lookin' for a cheap date? Try Wal-Mart NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Just when you thought you'd heard it all from the king of discount shopping, Wal-Mart is now pitching itself as the new dating hot spot -- with everyday low prices to boot. In fact, the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer's been playing Cupid to hundreds of lonely single German shoppers for well over a year now. According to Amy Wyatt, spokeswoman for the retailer's international operations, Wal-Mart's been running its "Singles Shopping" campaign in all of its 91 stores in Germany. Here's how its works. On Friday nights, singles looking for romance, mindless flirting or just a new friend head over to their neighborhood Wal-Mart where they're given a big bright red bow to attach to their shopping cart or shopping basket. Then it's up to the willing participants to approach one another and take it from there. But if that's too intimidating, Wal-Mart has set up "flirting points" around the stores stacked with "romantic" merchandise, such as chocolates, wine and cheese, to help with that first awkward step. Said Wyatt, "The singles night runs for two hours in the evening, from 6 to 8 p.m. every week. Our managers there told us that its been hugely successful and has actually boosted store traffic and sales in a lot of markets in Germany. In some stores we're getting 300 to 400 people taking part every week." Wal-Mart feels so good about the idea that the retailer trademarked the "Singles Shopping" slogan in Germany and is also testing it in its stores in Puerto Rico, South Korea and Britain. Someday, it could even pop up in a few of its U.S. stores. Wyatt said she's been working on her counterparts responsible for Wal-Mart's U.S. operations to actively give it a try, though no firm timetable has been set. The singles campaign was the brainchild of a few of Wal-Mart's German associates who came up with the concept one day when they overhead a female customer talking about how difficult if was for her to meet interesting single men on a Friday night. "This was a middle-aged woman who felt she was maybe too old to go to nightclubs,"Wyatt said. "That's pretty much been the theme here where most of the singles are middle-aged to older customers." "Singles Shopping" isn't the only match-making idea Wal-Mart's trying out. Wyatt said some of the German stores also feature singles bulletin boards with pictures of single men and women who frequently shop at Wal-Mart. http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/07/news/fortu...walmart_dating/ |
That's hilarious!
I have been to wal*mart and trust me, the women there are nothing to get excited over. Not unless you like fat, redneckish women.
QUOTE(Jesus of Suburbia @ Sunday, 28 August 2005, 8:02 pm)
I have been to wal*mart and trust me, the women there are nothing to get excited over. Not unless you like fat, redneckish women.
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Oh yeah???
Yes sky, all of the women at wal*mart look like that. Find the average women who works or shops at wal*mart. Not unless you are into propaganda.
QUOTE(Jesus of Suburbia @ Sunday, 28 August 2005, 9:00 pm)
Yes sky, all of the women at wal*mart look like that. Find the average women who works or shops at wal*mart. Not unless you are into propaganda.
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Jack. I'm joking!
The ladies at Wal*Mart are the same as any others.
I know because I worked for 2 years at the Butte Montana Wal*Mart as the head of receiving.
(At the same time I also drove school bus and worked for the county and still only made 11k!)
Wal*Mart is a scurge, but the people are just people.
QUOTE(sky of mind @ Sunday, 28 August 2005, 8:17 pm)
Jack. I'm joking!
The ladies at Wal*Mart are the same as any others.
I know because I worked for 2 years at the Butte Montana Wal*Mart as the head of receiving.
(At the same time I also drove school bus and worked for the county and still only made 11k!)
Wal*Mart is a scurge, but the people are just people.
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The ladies at Wal*Mart are the same as any others.
I know because I worked for 2 years at the Butte Montana Wal*Mart as the head of receiving.
(At the same time I also drove school bus and worked for the county and still only made 11k!)
Wal*Mart is a scurge, but the people are just people.
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Those are not people. Those are the some breed of subhuman worker that wal*mart created to work at low wadges and have no abilty to unionize.
But you are ok. You are what is known as a "normy".
QUOTE(Jesus of Suburbia @ Sunday, 28 August 2005, 9:29 pm)
Those are not people. Those are the some breed of subhuman worker that wal*mart created to work at low wadges and have no abilty to unionize.
But you are ok. You are what is known as a "normy".
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But you are ok. You are what is known as a "normy".
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Ha! But you may call me Norman!
Honestly, lots of people figure any job is better than no job!
QUOTE(sky of mind @ Sunday, 28 August 2005, 9:35 pm)
Honestly, lots of people figure any job is better than no job!
Ah... The Horatio Alger Myth rears its ugly head. Wal-Mart: Social Darwinism at its basest level. A job that doesn't provide subsistence isn't a job. It's wage slavery.Wal-Mart is downright evil in so many ways... The thought of that Corporation gets me spittin' mad.
Please... Don't tell me that you shop at that hell hole. If you did Sky, I'd have to say that I'd be dissappointed in you.
Buy Blue! Go Costco!
By incorporating Mall-Wart into the mating ritual, the redneck right may have come up with a new type of birth control (to match the several reasons they've already provided).
QUOTE(Gadzooks! @ Sunday, 28 August 2005, 10:24 pm)
By incorporating Mall-Wart into the mating ritual, the redneck right may have come up with a new type of birth control (to match the several reasons they've already provided).
This gives a higher purpose to the Mythical "Wal-Mart Date"
Wait...
Don't we want less ignorance?
QUOTE(Seamus @ Sunday, 28 August 2005, 10:13 pm)
Ah... The Horatio Alger Myth rears its ugly head. Wal-Mart: Social Darwinism at its basest level. A job that doesn't provide subsistence isn't a job. It's wage slavery.
Wal-Mart is downright evil in so many ways... The thought of that Corporation gets me spittin' mad.
Please... Don't tell me that you shop at that hell hole. If you did Sky, I'd have to say that I'd be dissappointed in you.
Buy Blue! Go Costco!
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Wal-Mart is downright evil in so many ways... The thought of that Corporation gets me spittin' mad.
Please... Don't tell me that you shop at that hell hole. If you did Sky, I'd have to say that I'd be dissappointed in you.
Buy Blue! Go Costco!
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No I don't shop there.
I said I worked there. (A number of years ago)
It was a job in an area that was exceptionally depressed.
I hadn't had a job for over a year!
Unimployment was used up.
Any job was better than no job!
Besides, Big Daddy Walton was still alive and that giant hadn't yet become a monster.
Is it just me? or does the woman in this photo remind you of a Concentration Camp Guard? It's either that or she needs some leather, stilettos, chains and a whip. Creepy pose...
Although I'll admit that it a photo from an anti-Wal-Mart site... If I were a woman working for Wal-Mart I'd be plenty pissed off as well.
Although I'll admit that it a photo from an anti-Wal-Mart site... If I were a woman working for Wal-Mart I'd be plenty pissed off as well.
QUOTE(sky of mind @ Sunday, 28 August 2005, 10:29 pm)
No I don't shop there.
Y'all scared me for a minute!
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Besides, Big Daddy Walton was still alive and that giant hadn't yet become a monster.
I may be wrong, but I don't think that the present monster is what Big Daddy had in mind.
QUOTE(Seamus @ Sunday, 28 August 2005, 10:36 pm)
Y'all scared me for a minute!
I may be wrong, but I don't think that the present monster is what Big Daddy had in mind.
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I may be wrong, but I don't think that the present monster is what Big Daddy had in mind.
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Nope!
he died, the fortune was split among his kids,
and Wal-mart changed from being one mans idea to a corporate machine.
Though even then, Wally World was not a bunch of nice people.
I have stories!
Whoa! Spank me, baby!
That's interesting.
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