{"id":2776,"date":"2015-05-10T12:07:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T17:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2015-05-10T12:07:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T17:07:26","slug":"i-endured-wal-mart-hell-for-the-fist-time-in-year-dear-god-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2015\/05\/10\/i-endured-wal-mart-hell-for-the-fist-time-in-year-dear-god-why\/","title":{"rendered":"I endured Wal-Mart hell for the fist time in year.  Dear God why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to Wal-Mart for the first time in over a year to pick up prints from the photo lab I needed in a hurry.\u00a0 The only woman covering the photo and electronics area was a mother they won&#8217;t let off until 7 PM.\u00a0 Her kids flight leaves at 5 PM so she won&#8217;t see them today.\u00a0 This so a couple of other people could be off today, who are not mothers.<\/p>\n<p>When I told someone this story I said &#8220;This is why I don&#8217;t spend money at Wal-mart&#8221; they replied, almost predictably, &#8220;Then she wouldn&#8217;t have any job&#8221;.\u00a0 Way to surface dwell brain fodder.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t spend any energy thinking anything through.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t want ya to throw a spark and hurt yourself.<\/p>\n<p>No, she wouldn&#8217;t have that job.\u00a0 Perhaps she would have a better paying full time job at one of the 1.9 million small, local retailers Wal-mart drove out in the name of lame ass &#8220;Always low prices, always&#8221;.\u00a0 Wal-Mart and other big box hell stores are America&#8217;s punishment for lusting over cheap shit, refusing to acknowledge any real value or quality in the cost of goods.\u00a0 Enjoy your Pakistani-Chinese made plastic.\u00a0 All you can afford?\u00a0 Ask yourself why that is.\u00a0 Think it through including the personal accountability part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to Wal-Mart for the first time in over a year to pick up prints from the photo lab I needed in a hurry.\u00a0 The only woman covering the photo and electronics area was a mother they won&#8217;t let off until 7 PM.\u00a0 Her kids flight leaves at 5 PM so she won&#8217;t see them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2015\/05\/10\/i-endured-wal-mart-hell-for-the-fist-time-in-year-dear-god-why\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I endured Wal-Mart hell for the fist time in year.  Dear God why?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2777,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}