I agree, Cath! I'll take it even a step further- I think Walmart should have all their product taste-sampling tables at the check-out lines. Either we'd all eat a TON while waiting and they'd lose mega-bucks, or they'd employ more staffers and WHIP us thru those danged long-azzed lines faster than cat-poop slides across a slick linoleum floor!

Great idea Kevin!!! I really would love to form a conspiracy with a bunch of fine people to all apply at Wal-Mart in Mgt. level posistions, get hired, play aloong with the mgt. training BS and then once they cut us all loose....BAM do it the right way:D Hire and schedule enough cashiers, train employees in Customer Service skills, and just turn the whole store around. I personally hate the way Wal-Mart is run!

20-25 years ago when our area got it's first Walmart it was COMPLETELY different. The stores were clean and cozy. Items were higher quality- better class. I loved their "WE BUY AMERICAN" policy- with red, white & blue posters, banners and placards everywhere.

Now? CHEAP, DIRTY, CHINTZY and all "foreign-made goods" that have played a role in the loss of decent American jobs. Walmart is NUMBER ONE in the world. Ya can't tell me they don't have the power to make USA number one again in many industries. But they don't. Pitiful!

Someone should drive down to Arkansas and teach'em a thing or 2. Old Sam Walton would roll over in his grave if he knew his stores turned into a place to buy Chinese and Taiwanese goods!

Kevin I believe you are 100% correct on that one.


I also remember when they had those banners too, I always felt good shopping there in the good old days! I often wondered what happened to that philosophy of Buy American! And you know they snuck it in on us unawares! Just one day I realized those Buy American banners were no longer there! How sick, and sad!

Remember all- 'Julie & Julia' hits theaters today!

I'm going Sunday Night and taking Mom... I can hardly wait- I'm counting down the hours! Here's a link to click-on to see two trailers that show Meryl Streep as Julia Child...

Julie & Julia (2009)


Also, for the TRUE Julia Child fans, by clicking this link one can view 26 full epsiodes of Julia Child's first PBS series 'The French Chef'! (Some are in black and white!)

Julia Child | PBS Video