Playing Games in Wal-Mart
Sunday February 27, 2005
We all know that Wal-Mart sells games. But did you know that you can actually play games in Wal-Mart? Not necessarily with the endorsement of store managers, mind you, but some college students have found creative ways to pass time in the megastore.
Among the games they play, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal and reprinted elsewhere:
10 in 10: Two teams each spend 10 minutes choosing 10 items to put in a shopping cart. The carts are then given to the other team, which must return the items to the shelves where they belong. The first team to finish wins.
Scavenger Hunt: A popular version is known as A-Z; the first player or team to find one item starting with each letter of the alphabet wins.
Aisle Football: This game involves actually tossing a football in the store, so it's not recommended.
Another game mentioned in the WSJ article is "a relay race limbo under the shopping-cart stand."
Comments
I work nights at a Wal Mart Super Center and I have witnessed several scavenger hunts which border on vandalism. Store employess spend a lot of valuable time cleaning up after the idiots are finished and on one occasion a shopper was injured by a dope riding in an electric cart. I say if you want to have fun go to a park or recreation area not a store where people are trying to earn a living and are trying to shop. If I had my way, all of the punks who act like this would be arrested.
That is an absolutely ridiculous thing to say…
I understand your frustration, but there are far worse things we college kids could be doing. I know as for me and my friends, we just use digital cameras to take pictures of the items instead of actually moving them and causing more work for employees.
I understand your frustration infact my friends and I are planning a scavenger hunt at our local wal-mart, but we added a new round. The losing team gets a chance to redeem itself if they can beat the other team, at replacing all of the items they put in the carts. I think that is an easy solution there.
Bahahaha I love Wal Mart games.
dude, you need to lighten up. ok?!? we all did stupid things as kids and if i have learned anything in my childhood its to live for the moment, cause if you dont you will end up as a stiff-shirt working a walmart and complaining about kids having scavenger hunts in the store. BIG DEAL!! would you rather have them graffiti the building? or how about shoplift? hun? is that what you want? a whole bunch of teenagers going to jail for shoplifting because the guy from the night shift wont let them have a scavenger hunt. dude, GET A LIFE