Sed said: What would really help me better appreciate WalMart would be if they allowed streetsingers to perform and sell their recordings and broadsides outside their zillions of stores...

I've busked in front of a Walmart, Sed, and I lasted an hour till someone cared enough to kick me out. Made good money too. In fact, the first few months I was playing fiddle I would always go over to the Walmart next door after closing to practice (to spare the people in my apartment building, and because Walmart had good lighting and rain shelter and tables in front).

Once when I was in the US I was amused to see a sign on front of a Walmart saying, "For gun returns please go directly to the service counter". I guess that's a big problem in the States, eh? Someone comes in looking angry and waving a gun and you can't tell if they're there for a massacre or if they're just dissatisfied with the merchandise?

Marion