On sale at the local W*lm*rt

[BigV]

I agree. The irony is amusing. Question: What is the scale here? Are these "shot glasses" the size of a highball tumbler? I'm imagining they're about 10-12 oz based on my eyeball comparison to the "sweater shaver" in the upper right corner of the top picture. **OBVIOUSLY** no one could "shoot" that much liquor, so the complaint is that they're being advertised as shot glasses. How dumb.

Well, maybe not dumb. The eldest SonofV awoke this morning for the first time in his dorm room. I consistently miss the mark on how together kids that age can be. For the record, I miss both high and low. I watched the CNN Money hour yesterday and one of the segments talked about marketing credit cards to college students. The point was that the trend in the industry is away from making money by offering credit to those who can easily pay (business people, back in the day) and toward those who cannot pay as easily, like college kids. No jobs, strong desire to spend beyond their means, inexperience with credit, money, budgeting, etc. I recognize the sad fact that I am a graybearded, dust-farting senile old fossil whose own college experience has no bearing on the modern era whatsoever, but, seriously. Kids, wait, young adults of legal drinking age are pouring shots in vessels like this? And W*lm*rt is hawking them as school supplies. Hawhawhaw.

You're not the only person to take issue with W*lm*rt and schools. Here's a story about the local teacher's union's complaint of the company's "anti-education policies", and a call to action.

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It appears that the translation from Chinese to engrish has missed the mark

One might also expect those "shot glasses" to be in several other departments with packaging ranging from "new and cool fishbowls" to automotive drain pans of some type to....who knows.

And another thing now that I think about it.

It's nice to see someone taking photos of things inside a store while the store's security is taking photos of every_single_person in that store, shoplifter or not.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I don't really give a crap, but it's surprising to see a company this size, that's supposed to have it all together, that wants to censor the music and movies that it sells,... make a PR mistake like this.

The only thing Walmart has together is billions of American dollars they're sending to China so the Chinese can outbid us for oil.
You saved $3 at Walmart and paid an extra $10 at the pump. You're so clever.