remember when? - walmarts

i know i'm in the process of changing from a young man to getting old now that i have to reminisce about the past after taking a trip to my local ghetto walmart. at least i can still remember, so i shouldn't quite be at old yet. remember when walmart wasn't a guaranteed ghetto experience in any largely populated area? i could just be delusional, and walmarts were always this way, but i don't recall noticing it all the time when i was more youthful.

i still don't know why walmart is allowed to sell anything that can be used as a weapon. there are plenty of angry people as it is, so after entering somewhere like walmart, why should they have access to instruments which have the potential to be used for attacking the folks who decide to bump into them, generally not look where they're going, or seemingly make a point to take up as much of an aisle as possible?

and at what point did the stores turn into a big pile of merchandise? i remember when the merchandise used to be organized and on shelves, but now the new style requiring everything to be on the ground and in a big pile to sift through seems to be a mandatory walmart concept. for easter egg hunt lovers, this may be a good thing, but it is not a positive experience for more-organized people who may not want to swim through products like uncle scrooge mcduck in a vault of gold coins.

i remember when walmart was convenient and saved time instead of shopping at several stores. now it takes the same amount of time and more stress to use walmart more exclusively for shopping. it wouldn't be a good idea for me to even start on the tire & lube department of walmart stores. let me just say i don't quite understand the conversion from walmart hours to regular everyday hours, because a walmart estimate of 3 hours obviously means at least 4 or 5 hours in regular time.

i hope my local walmart is more ghetto than yours, for your sake.