Wal-Mart, Pick-up Joint No More
After only one month, the Wal-Mart in Roanoke, Virginia has cancelled it's Friday singles shopping night. Single shoppers displayed a red bow on their carts to let other shoppers know that they were available.
As well, "flirt points" were set up in the store. I wonder if there were flirt points by the condoms?
I am not going to make any jokes about Wal-Mart customers. And, I have no answer to one Virginia shopper's question: "Where can someone over 40 who doesn't smoke or drink or go to bars meet someone?" In Virginia? I have no idea.
I am not sure that Wal-mart was the best retailer for such an experiment. I would say that a reasonably upscale grocery store would be a better choice or maybe even a Laundromat or possibly a public library. Who knows?
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10 comments:
As a native son of the Old Dominion, I'm still in total shock over this.
I'm just hoping that none of my relatives were the ones hitting on people by the Sam's Choice Cola.
JWJ
I'm all for the red bows. Not just in Wal-Mart, but everywhere. I wouldn't have one, you see, so I would no longer have to deal with skanky desperate greaseball in trenchcoat whose impromptu analysis of vampire mythology is supposed to make me sweat. Why? Why why why why? And more importantly, why me?
I won't even shop in Wal-Mart, so I can't imagine trawling for dates in one.
(File this comment under "glad to be married).
Since I refuse to go into a Walmart - they are, after all, the evil Empire - I missed out on all the fun....
Oh my gosh - why am I not even surprised by this?
Perfect spouse:
attractive, employed, shops at Walmart.
Classy!
:)
Toryssa said...
Perfect spouse:
attractive, employed, shops at Walmart.
Classy!
Actually, the kind of folks that would pick up other folks in Wally World, at least in my corner of Ohio would probably fall more into the shallow, barely employable, and regular guests on Jerry Springer.
J.
I can imagine myself meeting < sarcasm >that special someone< /sarcasm > while we are both picketing/boycotting a Wal-Mart together!
I guess I shoud confess that I occassionally shop at Wal-Mart, but only becuase it is very close to my house. I would never drive to one (even if I had a car).
I'm horrified by the concept of people who would actually go to a Wal-Mart singles nite being given help at meeting someone like them with whom they could reproduce. Yikes.
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