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It's a given that on Cyburbia, and any other bulletin board, there will be plenty of Wal-Mart bashing, some of which noting the clientele that dominates the aisles. You know ... even far from the heart of Dixie, you'll see white working-class blue-collar folks with a rural Confederate cultural orientation.
Go to Target, OTOH, and the clientele is completely different. The mullets and feathered hair disappear. No crying babies. No obese moms beating their kids for no reason. Nobody shouting out for their homies, except young teenaged gangsta wannabes. No Dale Earnhardt shrines in the parking lot. The clientele has a more Northern middle-class outlook. I've been in Targets in the deep South, and still mullets are rare. The Meijer I visited once (I'm very jealous, folks in Meijer country) seemed filled with middle-class appearing couples and families, more so than Target where I've found more singles and young couples.
We bash Wal-Mart all the time but ... the Wal-Mart shoppers that are an object of our ridicule, the "rednecks" for lack of a politically correct substitute - what do they think of Target, Meijer, Fred Meyer or any similar chains? Do they see those chains as high falutin' upscale boutiques filled with the pretty people of society, much the way a middle class person might think of Neiman-Marcus?
Go to Target, OTOH, and the clientele is completely different. The mullets and feathered hair disappear. No crying babies. No obese moms beating their kids for no reason. Nobody shouting out for their homies, except young teenaged gangsta wannabes. No Dale Earnhardt shrines in the parking lot. The clientele has a more Northern middle-class outlook. I've been in Targets in the deep South, and still mullets are rare. The Meijer I visited once (I'm very jealous, folks in Meijer country) seemed filled with middle-class appearing couples and families, more so than Target where I've found more singles and young couples.
We bash Wal-Mart all the time but ... the Wal-Mart shoppers that are an object of our ridicule, the "rednecks" for lack of a politically correct substitute - what do they think of Target, Meijer, Fred Meyer or any similar chains? Do they see those chains as high falutin' upscale boutiques filled with the pretty people of society, much the way a middle class person might think of Neiman-Marcus?