Fly Goes to Wal-mart
December 19, 2007 – 10:30 pm
Believe it or not, tonight was my first, and last, time visiting the shitbox called Wal-Mart.
The reviews are in:
Mrs. Fly: “This place is just awful, awful…I felt like suffocating. I just wanted to get out of there.”
“TheFly”: Wow, Cramer was right. This place does suck. It has the look and feel of Government. A ghetto it is, I tell you.”
Fly kids: “Ooh, ooh, can I get that Daddy?”
NOTE: It’s official. The iBankCoin dictionary, volume 1, has been published. Any suggestions will be greatly ignored, as always.
Thank you.
Fly, I live in a small town in Texas and Wal-Mart is the only place which can furnish things I need for y survival. But! It is the worst place ever, I hate the lights and flooring, and the fat black girls at the check out station.
What can be done?
December 19th, 2007 at 10:37 pmEver see the South Park walmart episode? Your doomed…you will forever shop at Walmart.
December 19th, 2007 at 10:43 pmRon Paul ,
Dang IT! move to 5th Av in NYC where I live and Flea thinks he dose, Ya ‘all bring the fam- up here, and get a place around 5th. not to far hear! don’t go slumming into that upper east side , crap…5th to park, and you be right round the corner from madison, and you won’t be looking at no more of them their fatty cashiers, while picking the furnishings, fact maybe even the flea might work one of them taxis to get you from store to home!
December 19th, 2007 at 10:45 pmTry a kmart or sears (except for the tools) lately? Eddie still working on the decor concept
December 19th, 2007 at 10:50 pmI stopped at a Wal-Mart in the Midwest to grab a pillow. That place was a trip. Imagine if you were on shrooms.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:05 pmwhy you go War Malt Sweah-n-gn?
You glow flesh murrett, too?
Fluck’n Ledneck!
December 19th, 2007 at 11:11 pmI told you the Barber charged Fly 5 bucks more than Mrs. Fly for their kid’s haircut because Fly got the kid a mullet.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:17 pmI just can’t believe that it took you so long before you decided to check out Wal-Mart.
What ever “possessed” you to want to do that?
If you want to see the rejects from the insane asylum, go shopping at 3 a.m. at your local “Wally World”, so I am told.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:24 pmWhat happened to acropora?
Good call on the ECB intervention.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:35 pmI wanted to buy some low-end presents, for some low-end people.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:38 pmWhen it comes down to “low-end presents, for some low-end people”, I think you’ve got Wal-Mart confused with Family Dollar (FDO).
December 19th, 2007 at 11:45 pmThe lighting at Walmart gives me seizures.
I take pictures for Walmart.com and am proud to report that I have made more money off of them then I will ever spend there.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:51 pmI once got kicked out of Wally World at 3am. Everything else was closed in the town that we were in, somewhere in Indiana.
December 20th, 2007 at 1:12 amApparently they didn’t like us goofing off, but the 7 hillbillies with 10 total teeth between them were ok to spit their chew on the floor and make nasty grunting noises. Yeah, buddy!
I will defend Wal Mart (at least the super centers). I have been to major cities like the DC area and there is no Wal Mart Super Center within 50 miles of the place (or a Target Super Center). The grocery stores there know it and the prices are at least 20-25% higher on average as a result. Its free market capitalism. The grocery store are sticking it to the people and as soon as a Wal Mart is allowed to be built many people can stretch their food budgets.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:38 amNot everybody can or wants to shop at overpriced yuppified Whole Foods, Ann Taylor, etc.
Given the Walmart experience is universally bad, I don’t know how Target keeps screwing it up. Ever been to a Target Greatland? with all the groceries? It’s almost nice inside.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:45 amTrader you buy your groceries at Ann Taylor? Or you just like your “peaches” warmed in a sweater?
December 20th, 2007 at 5:46 amI think SuperTarget’s screw up is on the price points. The national brands are more expensive than Wal Marts and about the same price as a Publix or Albertsons on sale. Only SuperTargets private label (Archer) competes in price with Wal Marts price on the national label.
December 20th, 2007 at 6:09 amBoomer-No idea what I was thinking when I said Ann Taylor. Been up since 4 A.M.
So Fly, do you have satellite at the Trailer or are you “borrowing” cable internets from your neighbor down the way?
December 20th, 2007 at 6:10 amAlias: BPOE
I did a survey after I noticed excessive B.O. from the customers at Wal Mart. It came out one in four have B. O. The trick to shopping Wal Mart is to go early in the morning when they first open. Most customers are still drunk from the night before and can’t drive until 12:00 noon. Do the word Chuck Wagon people ring a bell?
December 20th, 2007 at 6:47 amFly,
LNN rules. Up 9 points today on good earnings. That should bode well for your VMI.
Thanks again for the solid call,
-DT
December 20th, 2007 at 8:01 amcomplete bs fly
December 20th, 2007 at 8:21 amfly is doing the training necessary to understand the pain of buying stocks like NTRI. Can shopping at a super wal mart be far behind?
December 20th, 2007 at 8:24 amFLY VMI a close over 88 hits the highest odds level in the run between 80 and 120….88 to 100 provides the best win ratio within the range.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:24 amOn a totally unrelated matter, how smart / stupid are you? Take the IQ test.
Let’s see if the Flys “155 IQ” will put him in the top 10%.
My sense is that he will probably claim that he is in the top 1%, along with Albert, and tell us “low-IQers to fuck off.
http://www.flashbynight.com/test/
(Btw, I was 40.1% smarter than the “average”. That and $3.50 will get me a grande hazelnut mocha at SBUX. In other words, don’t take this test too seriously.)
December 20th, 2007 at 8:33 amHo Ho Ho Chi Min
December 20th, 2007 at 8:47 amWhat’s the point of initiating coverage with an underweight, as JPMorgan did with BWLD? And they do so after the stock has been almost cut in half in six months?
It seems like JPM is doing their best to fuck themselves out of any future fees from financings/deals. Are they not worthy of an Honorary Asshat Award?
December 20th, 2007 at 8:47 amI am smarter than the average bear!
December 20th, 2007 at 8:50 amhttp://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071220/jobless.html
The clues are all here for anyone wanting to connect the dots.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:55 amPUD –
Get them back by shorting JPM. I am.
Aside: the BKX is looking like the Hindenburg about now, fellahs. Not good for the market, I don’t care what Oracle did.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:04 amSaNTa = older than 47.5.
(Black palm crystal)
December 20th, 2007 at 9:06 amWay to jinx BWLD by posting on front page yesterday. VMI looks nice
December 20th, 2007 at 9:06 amJake,
Wrong. I’m 21.
(Use your crystal skull next time)
December 20th, 2007 at 9:09 amLNN continues to be the sunshine in my portfolio. Up 96% since June.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:15 amjust bought len 16.79 bought chs 9.86 bought c 29.46
December 20th, 2007 at 9:29 amI don’t get this joke. Does anyone understand the punchline?
A Florida man is terribly depressed, so he dials up the suicide hotline. He ends up in touch with the hotline’s call center in Pakistan.
“I’m suicidal,” the man tells the operator.
After a short pause and some background chatter, the operator responds: “Do you know how to drive a stick?”
December 20th, 2007 at 9:35 amHey Fly, shouldn’t you be gloating over your LNN call a few months ago?
December 20th, 2007 at 9:36 amFly is tripping out on the black light he bought from WalMart.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:37 amDid you see Albert Lord? And was he making a beeline for the exit with stolen snickers bars falling out of his pockets screaming “let’s get the fuck out of here”
LOL!
December 20th, 2007 at 9:40 amPunjab -
Insert “Al Qu’aida recruiting office” for the “suicide hotline” and the light will come on, I expect.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:46 amCould someone PLEASE!!!! help me out and explain to me why FSLR is an 18 billion dollar company.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:59 amSaNTa– sorry, you must have been temporarily possessed by the soul of an aging hippy with your “Ho ho ho Chi Minh” chant.
That was big back when Jane Fonda was the bomb.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:59 amThe subprime diners are all being abandoned. Woohoo.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:00 amWhat, you don’t like a company who hires 89 years old at minimum wage to great you at the door?
December 20th, 2007 at 10:01 am5–
It’s a $4.7 billon company inside the steroid pumped body of an $18bn company.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:01 amFly still dealing with his “Wal-Mart flourescent lighting hangover.”
December 20th, 2007 at 10:02 amFly went back to the Wal-Mart Hair Salon this morning. He found out that he and his son can get a mullet for $5.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:06 amI would be. I went to walmart once to buy a propane tank–by the time I left, I felt tempted to give up bbqing rather than stay there and pay
December 20th, 2007 at 10:12 am“sorry, you must have been temporarily possessed by the soul of an aging hippy with your “Ho ho ho Chi Minh†chant.”
It happens. My Chief was a Green Beret during the Vietnam war.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:33 amYou da man, Jake!
I guess I needed more coffee
December 20th, 2007 at 10:34 amSaNTa:
That’s balls up. Are you really a Canuckistanian Warrior (Sioux?)?
Tell your Chief we say thanks.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:55 am