Walmarts are for entertainment and when I worked in OK, the one there could have been the beta for Walmart People and that's according to the regional manager for that region and the store manager. I ran ads for employment for them and got to know them and the regional manager told me he always looked forward to coming to that Walmart.
I never was a Walmart shopper before working there but I got addicted to people watching and it was like having a zoo because I never knew what I was going to see.
When Blue Bell Ice Cream got shelved because of Listeria, in honor of their absence, they just left that part of the freezer empty anticipating their return and people would file by paying their respects like at a wake. The manager was laughing himself silly when he told me he encountered a rather rotund woman staring at the empty freezer case and he asked her if he could help. She asked about the Blue Bell and he told her of the recall and she looked at him sadly and asked "well, how bad is Listeria"? For those of you not from this area, there are two religions, football and Blue Bell Ice Cream.
The other one and I got to witness this as he called me and I walked over. The re-introduction of Twinkies was like Elvis and The Beatles performing at the store. It was crazy. All of these, again, rotund women in line with boxes upon boxes of Twinkies and kids in tow with whatever that filling is all over their faces and hands. They had to get some diverted from the North Texas stores and that store set the one day Twinkies sales record. They couldn't stock them fast enough and some women that had scored at least a case were returning to the store for seconds. You know about the food pyramid, well now you know about the food rectangle, one big Twinkie.
