I went to Walmart last night for the first time
in over a decade.
Upon entering the automatically opening doors,
the store ambience felt oppressive to me.
It all seemed too phony to me and I hated
how overcrowded it was.
It hearkened back to decades ago when
I heard groceries cost less at Walmart.
I went there with the prudent idea of
saving a lot of money
I filled my grocery cart with ten or twelve items
and rolled my cart to the cash registers lanes.
They had twenty or more of them with
only three open.
At those three the lines was at least
twelve people deep.
I got so exasperated at those long
and slow moving lanes
I said screw this and got out of
the lane I was in
and rolled my shopping cart and the items
back to where I had put the items in the cart.
I put the items back on the shelves
and never shopped for groceries
at Walmart again.
Tonight I had the same feeling
and walked out the automatically opening doors
without buying anything.
And I’ll never set foot in
a Walmart store again.
Bob Boyd