wal mart fun

its been awhile since ive been back east, but i remember last time i was there Wal Mart had yet to completely take over as the department store of choice.  In L.A., it's Target.  Wal Mart is in Crenshaw (the 'hood)  and is literally shopped at by 99% black people.  its 2 or 3 stories high, like a Super Duper Wal Mart mini mall or something and its packed all the time.  But in Hawaii, it's all Wal Mart all the time.  We have a K Mart but, like Ct, nobody really goes/went there.  Wal Mart's the only gig in town around here.

I bought a brita water filter yesterday, one of the kind you replace in your container once a month.  it was a single pack and i opened it up and found that someone had craftily scotch taped the plastic packaging back together.  Upon further inspection, someone had taped the outside box back together too.  And (presumably) returned it to Walmart who promptly put it back on the shelves without question. 

The best i can figure, people are probably just returning their old, used filters for $8.00 a pop when they buy new ones.  Or rather, completely tampering with the filters, filling them with cyanide and finely chopped ass hairs while WalMart is complicitly re-selling them because its cheaper than ordering new ones from Brita.  Either way, they make it damned easy to return those things...   that's like, buying a package of condoms and poking pinholes in all of them and then returning them...