Judging by the people wandering around aimlessly, trying to keep from getting overwhelmed, one might assume that Wednesday’s events were associated with some sort of catastrophic natural disaster. Instead, they were the result of a new Walmart Supercenter opening in the Levittown Town Center. In the Bucks County Courier Times’ report from the scene, shopper Carolyn Weaver feared getting lost, though she vowed to return again on a less-crowded day. Likewise, shopper Sue Dorman said, “It was almost too much to take in.”

While we really enjoyed the overly-optimistic 1950’s jet age/housing boom treatment of the event (“Stand on one end of the store and you can just barely make out the far wall. Seven wide aisles are filled with plastic storage containers, six aisles with DVDs and five aisles of bath towels. The meat section stretches farther than a football field.” Gee gosh, that’s big!), we were disappointed when we realized that at 200,000 square feet, these shoppers were getting lost in a store that’s smaller than a typical Macy’s. Oh, life in the suburbs! So crazy! Just think how overwhelmed those country squires will feel when everyone has a personal jetpack!

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2009 at 4:27 pm.