"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 21:11:25 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, Walmart does tend to attract that type of people. Could
>> have
>> something to do with the fact that they allow people to camp in their
>> parking lot.
>
> An article about the camping came out locally here - there is no
> corporate policy that allows/disallows vehicle camping. It's up to
> the store managers weather they allow vehicle camping in their parking
> lots. The story focused on a about a half dozen people using their
> cars and the parking lots as their home.
>
> Now all the homeless without vehicles have set up camps in the
> outskirts of the parking lots and on the islands between the parking
> aisles. Now the Walmart looks even more like Hell. It was always
> Hell inside, but now outside, too.
>
> -sw

Yep. All the more reason for me to shop online.