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Wal-Mart lifestyles

gnat on 2003-03-24T22:25:57

This is just scary:

Wal-Mart Opens First 'All You Can Live' Township
My favourite sentence is "It's a 21st century horn-of-plenty, all for one no-fuss monthly fee", which sounds like a curious blend of marketing talk and methamphetamines. Not to mention the somewhat ghoulish possibility of RFID tags in everything in your house, and the Big Brother-sounding allocation of "friend and family minutes". You thought paying by the minute for a cellphone was bad, imagine having to bundle Granddad out of your suburb because you're out of Wal-Mart life minutes?

I don't want to live in a town run by Wal-Mart. I want to live in a town run by Fry's, where you can eat all the electronics you want for a flat monthly fee!

--Nat

Fry's

Robrt on 2003-03-25T03:09:19

A town run by Fry's, where everything is used, probably broken, and the city staff just wants to raise the taxes and not provide any services. But the street signs sure look nice.

Disney was there before...

jhi on 2003-03-25T06:38:47

Celebration, FL. Try for example these links.

Further ideas for corporate America

jhi on 2003-03-25T07:17:59

  • Raytheonville - all the Tomahawks you can throw!
  • MacDonaldston - forklifts for your belly for free!
  • Philip-Morrisville - in exchange of not suing us you'll get 10% off from all our products!
  • Coketon - look young and free and plastic all year long! Smiling is mandatory but think how successful you will look!
  • DietCoketon - the lighter alternative to Coketon for those with a more dynamic lifestyle!
  • Hummer Peak - you know your family needs four Hummer-2s! And one extra for gramps, too!

Re:Further ideas for corporate America

krellis on 2003-03-25T17:52:24

Oh, you mean this? I just finished reading that book, and believe me, it needs the "A Novel" subtitle, because it's scary how close it feels to the truth.

Re:Further ideas for corporate America

belg4mit on 2003-03-26T02:10:00

I dunno, sounds like a SnowCrash ripoff.

Re:Further ideas for corporate America

krellis on 2003-03-26T04:10:29

Nope, nothing like Snow Crash. Which is another excellent book, though.

Re:Further ideas for corporate America

belg4mit on 2003-03-26T14:31:28

Odd, as all the descriptions on Amazon
do sound like SnowCrash (I didn't just
mention the book for the heck of it)

Apologies to T.E. Ford

derby on 2003-03-25T12:45:54

... I owe my soul to the township store ...