People of Walmart Website

peopleofwalmart.com is a website that makes fun of people found shopping at Walmart. Founded in August of 2009, the website has become an overnight viral internet sensation. The website encourages users to upload their funny pictures of Wal Mart shoppers.

According to it's title, people of Walmart is: "a collection of all the creatures that grace us with their presence at Walmart, America's favorite store."

Based on the information on the "About Us" section of the website,

"People of Walmart was founded in August of 2009 by three friends and roommates after an inspirational trip to WalMart..."

"Let’s face it; we all have seen the people who obviously don’t have mirrors and/or family and friends to lock them in a basement, and they all seem to congregate at Walmart..."

"This is purely for entertainment purposes and strictly limited to the outrageously bad / ugly / creepy / crazy shoppers..."

Walmart

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (branded as Walmart) is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large, discount department stores. It is the world's largest public corporation by revenue, according to the 2008 Fortune Global 500.[4] The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. Wal-Mart is the largest private employer[5] and the largest grocery retailer in the United States. It also owns and operates the Sam's Club retail warehouses in North America.

Walmart operates in Mexico as Walmex, in the United Kingdom as Asda, and in Japan as Seiyu. It has wholly owned operations in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Wal-Mart's investments outside North America have had mixed results: its operations in South America and China are highly successful, while it was forced to pull out of Germany and South Korea when ventures there were unsuccessful.

Walmart has been criticized by some community groups, women's rights groups, grassroots organizations, and labor unions, specifically for its extensive foreign product sourcing, low rates of employee health insurance enrollment, resistance to union representation, alleged sexism, and management efforts to pressure employees to vote for specific parties during national elections. Conversely, others point out that Wal-Mart's rapid growth and logistical efficiency has enabled it to bring lower prices to consumers and more jobs and new small businesses to the communities in which it operates.