On 7/8/2016 12:44 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> 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
>

Sounds classy. I've seen a couple of real campers here for an
overnight, never setting up housekeeping.

WalMart used to have their own edition of the Rand McNally atlas showing
all the locations and it encouraged visits.