Wal-Mart Commercials: Isn't it ironic and somewhat sad?

[BlueJazz]

From watching Wal-Mart Commercials the past few months, I've noticed that the scenes involve happy
Families...smiling Women, Men and children with nice, straight white teeth...a beautiful, fairly expensive home (250-400 thousand) and in 3 scenes, a nice big yard with trees where the happy Wal-Mart shoppers play with their pets and savor weenies or hamburgers cooked over a modern outdoor grill.

...while 98 percent of the People who actually work at Wal-Mart cannot afford any of those things.

:cry: :cry:

[AndyA]

1. Don't shop at Walmart.

You're shopping yourself out of a job if you do. Literally.

[JanMichael]

2. Yes, it's godawful

nt

[Electric Monk]

15. peopleofwalmart.com

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

[YOY]

3. The America they'd like/want to think they promote versus the one they really do.

n/t

[NMMNG]

4. Yep

Furnish your McMansion at the expense of foreign slave-labor and domestic wage-slave labor. Bonus points if you can sleep at night knowing the people who helped you save a few bucks on your purchases are subsisting on food-stamps, living in their cars or shelters, going without health insurance, etc...

(Mind you I don't begrudge the people who shop there because they simply can't afford anything else.)

[Thothmes]

9. What would they be doing if they didnt earn the few

dollars, yen, rials etc a day that they make.

[Tikki]

5. Jeez...if they would put a portion of the money they...

spend on 24/7 advertising into hiring people to clean and straighten up
the aisles of their stores and clean the shopping carts and get some buyers
who know how to look for at least minimal clothing construction..
They might have something that resembles a store instead of an indoor swap meet.


Tikki

[indepat]

6. Duplicitous hypocrisy pours out of their every mendacious corporate pore?

:P

Edited to add punctuation mark

[NoPasaran]

7. Reality check on Aisle Five

Ninety-eight percent of the people who work at WalMart can't afford a pet or a hot dog? Really?

[samplegirl]

8. This post deserves

a big K&R

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. What is sadder is that so many regular Wally World shoppers

have actually supported the very company that had their job moved overseas. Slow motion suicide. Every penny spent at Wal-Mart is another penny that greases the skid of American job loss.

[TwilightGardener]

11. I have a big yard with trees, and like to cook my weenies and burgers

on the grill, and my house was not expensive. And I shop there sometimes. All sorts of people shop at Wally World--well-off and poor and middle class and Asian and Hispanic and African. It's the closest many Nebraskans will get to a multi-cultural experience, really. Oops, forgot to mention my cats, dogs and bird.

[Kablooie]

12. But the father who seems so pleased with Wal-Mart also cooks crack cocaine in his Winnebago.

For those that don't know, the same actor, Aaron Paul, is a lead in "Breaking Bad" where he and his former science teacher make a killing cooking up crack cocaine and selling it on the street.

[Contrary1]

13. But we can all have what is portrayed in their ads...

"for less than $2.00 a serving". "Save Money. Live Better."

Yep, It's just that easy.

[Electric Monk]

14. You know why it's called the "American Dream" right?

You have to be asleep to believe it.

[glinda]

16. Walfart ripped off Target in every design, manner, etc.... I will not shop there.