People of Walmart

This is, if nothing else, an entirely American phenomenon. Elsewhere in the world, people also capture images of others in the local stores, or in the street, or elsewhere in public. There are two main reasons for this: journalism, in which photographers claim that the public needs to know, and art, in which photographers use the immediacy of a moment and their skills in framing and composition to tell a story, convey a feeling, or simply create an image and let their viewers decide how to feel about it. Sometimes the two blend into one. Americans, however, and I believe they may be unique in the world for this, take photographs of each other being American and then roll about laughing at them. You do not generally see, say, the French doing this sort of thing. C'est du pipi de chat. The Germans wouldn't get the point at all. And the English would merely gaze westward, and shake their heads in a mixture of pity and disgust. No, this is definitely not a European thing. And further east, while it's true that the Japanese love taking photos of each other, they don't really do the laughing part. That's saved for the TV, where they are happy to be humiliated beyond sane boundaries by game show companies. No, I believe only in America could a site such as peopleofwalmart.com exist and thrive. You see, it's all to do with Freedom. And your average American would fight to the death to protect his right to it. That this site survives is thanks to a dilemma: if we were free to take it down, doing so would be a denial of freedom. So it stays. It would not do so in any country which holds freedom in less regard. Being English, and never having been within miles of a Wal-Mart, I had to take the plunge and wade through 75 pages of photographs to understand what I was looking at. Apparently, it's traditional for some folks to use a trip to Wal-Mart as an excuse to deck themselves out in whatever they fancy, however outrageous or ill-advised. I'll discount them, because they're actors on the stage, costumed heroes who know what they look like and choose to look that way. What's left are mainly photographs of fat people and gay people and occasionally fat, gay people. Neither of which in itself, or in combination with the other, is an uproariously funny thing to be. But every now and again, there is a genuine "WTF?" moment, when you know you're in the presence of true genius, the art of appearing in public dressed in the absolute most inappropriate manner imaginable, yet entirely unintentionally. And I wouldn't be in the least surprised if those aren't the ones that make you laugh, even though you know you shouldn't. The site relies to a great extent on the written commentaries that accompany the images. Whether you find them funny or not, the site wouldn't raise a laugh at all without them. Aside from those odd images which prompt instant astonishment and need no further commentary, for the most part the photos are interesting and sometimes mildly amusing but that's about it. In almost every case, the photos have been taken from behind or to the side of the subject, except when cell phones have been deployed more craftily to get a frontal view. On only two or three occasions that I recall did the photographer get a posed shot. These "Wal-Creatures", as the site unkindly christened them, are to be feared; we fear that which we do not understand, and we ridicule it and call it names to hide our fears. I urge you to go visit this site, especially if you're across the world from the USA and the only images you have are the President and some imported TV series. Skip the commentaries and the debates, just regard it as a photo gallery. This is a big chunk of America you're looking at, and however much you might like to think this is an unrepresentative sample of American society, if Wal-Mart's customers were to all vote the same way, they could bring down a President. These aren't just the people of Wal-Mart, they're people of America. They're often obese, thanks to poor nutrition and even poorer healthcare, assuming they can get any at all. They're poor, often unemployed, ill-educated, and maintained at a social and economical level that would befit a third-world nation, and not a developing one at that. Viewing these images will not explain America to you, but it will broaden your understanding if you have eyes to see. Although it's unfortunate that it needed this rather seedy project to bring these images to you, it's an unique opportunity to see a slice of working class America through the eyes of its own people.

Not professional. You can not find help in 2 shift. Some times roud, not smiling. Not wil coming. Did not chick the expartion date. Long waiting. Some Manegars tolk to much about explaining, he thing he nose every thing ( but he did not) useless and some time did not give the customer agood solution. They need trainings how to give customers good service.