Which has had a bigger impact on modern American Consumerism; The entertainment industry or Wal-Mart?

Question

Which has had a bigger impact on modern American Consumerism; The entertainment industry or Wal-Mart?

Answer 1

Wal Mart. People can get more for less. They roll back prices.

Answer 2

Oprah.

Answer 3

Wal-Mart.

People long for the dresses women wear to the Golden Globes, yes, but they can only afford a sundress at wal-mart. Where they can also get an oil change, lunch, a wedding gift, a replacement part for a toy, batteries, shampoo and Dad's meds.

Answer 4

Wal mart is infamous for it's refusal to sell fresh produce, so if you are an average, fat American, this is the answer, eat out of the can, for the real "American" feeling......if you are an American teen, then the cr#p from the movies, is your hearts desire, so it depends on which age group you are in....the demographic for the studios, is the under 24 white male, so it is no surprise, surely, .......

Answer 5

What about Wal-Mart as entertainment?

Seriously ... visiting my local Wal-Mart and watching the people, I would sometimes swear that many people are there shopping as a form of entertainment.

Looking at them as separate industries, the two certainly have some kind of symbiotic/parasitic relationship ... the entertainment industry creates stuff that is snapped up by consumers at Wal-Mart.

Difficult to have one without the other.

Answer 6

kentucky fried chicken.