Monday, March 5, 2007

wal-mart logic

I just got back from Wal-Mart. I know. I know. But it's a small town. What do you want me to do?

While touring the happiest place on earth~, I decided to check out the book/magazine section. I absolutely never go into the book/magazine section at Wal-Mart because c'mon, it's Wal-Mart. Who needs that kind of depression? The books ranged from best-sellers to the pseudo-inspirational or pseudo-erotic paper backs that you would never put on bookshelves in the rooms of your house where you entertain company. The book selection was not much of a surprise to me. But the magazines, more specifically, how the magazines were organized, blew my mind. So they have lots of categories, like crafts, women, men, hobbies, sports, etc., etc. The two categories I would like to focus on now are hobbies and information. Of the two categories, which would you put Star Wars Insider in and which would you put Discover in? Apparently there is a lot of hard data in Star Wars Insider because it is catalogued under information. And I guess Discover has lots of articles on model trains, knitting, and Pokemon cards because it is catalogued under hobbies. And why was Black Belt magazine (maybe the top martial arts magazine today) under information and not under sports? I don't get it. Apparently Wal-Mart is its own universe where the laws of logic and fair-labor practices are different from those laws as we know them.

3 comments:

  1. Heh. Here's an outtake of the previous comment for all of you The Procrastinator Does Stuff faithful:

    Long live the tidle!

    Sounds dirtier than I tend to get on this blog. . .

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