YULBlog Spotlight: Wal-Mart only wants your crappy shots!
If true, this is an amazing story from the blog of Francis Vachon. Essentially, if Wal-Mart (in all of its infinite wisdom) decides that your images are way too good to have been taken by a slob like you, they reserve the right not to give you your prints…but you still have to pay. Here is the beginning of the entry:
A friend of mine went to Wal-Mart to have her pictures developed. OK, bad idea in the first place, but still


I have a multiple personality disorder. I analyzed my photos a minute ago and I realized that I wasn’t the one who took them, it was my alter ego who’s a photographer.
I just rented The Corporation. Also, my girlfriend did a course with Kai Nielsen at Concordia. These two things drove home to me the crap that is going on re: Walmart and all the rest. Especially the closure of the Jonquiere outlet! As regards your story… I have my own. I was offered nine dollars refund for a pair of shoes that cost me seventy in the Angrignon store. Nothing would budge these greasers! Why would I argue for twenty minutes if I was tryinh to fool them?! Customer’s always right? Not in Montreal! (Elsewhere in Canada Walmart will bend over backwards to make you happy, I have found). Anyway, after thinking harder about this corporate crap, I’m ashamed to have bought any boots at all….