Wal-Mart Radio Grill -

[Xerxes IX]

I miss the Y2K aesthetic. It felt genuinely fun. Then culture became about being as cynical as possible—though with 9/11, the Great Recession, and the culture war/Eternal Current Year, I can see why—while minimalist modern design of everything from store interiors to websites morphed to turn everything into a Clean Corporate Hellscape.

Hell, even if stuff in the past is seen as tacky, cheesy, or cringy, at least makes you feel an emotion compared to the soulless "clean and minimal" stuff we see everywhere.

 

[Gaius Caesar]

I vaguely recall one of the Walmarts I frequented growing up having one of these, if for no other reason than the restrooms being right behind it. Never actually ate there, but I'd occasionally get a Coke. They nixed it when they redid the store in the mid-2000s and replaced it with shitty-ass Subway, although the old checkerboard tiling remained.

Personally, I was more of a Food Avenue (Target) kid growing up:
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This is a great set-up...an open bar facing the path to the exit, a dollar for a drink with free refills, and all the ladies will have to walk by me. I'm bound to be found by a boyfriend-free, 18-23 year old girl now. Especially since this love quest has been going on for about two years now. Toodie-froodie, drawing comics all day long. Only three days since I skipped my last deadline.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Apologies for the thread necromancy but I saw this video on YouTube and it reminded me of this thread.

Also, re-reading this thread made me think of what would a 2010's version of the Walmart Radio Grill look like with an 80's theme as opposed to a 50's one.

My guess is they'd play up the neon and have posters from movies of the time on the wall and the music would sound like the radio in GTA Vice City.

 

[XYZpdq]

revisiting the OP that picture is interesting
what's the dynamics here?
obviously Cowboy y Cowboy are cowbros, the cluster on the right is some sort of family, but exactly who is what, and does baldo in the ballcap fit into them?
maybe he's the curly-haired (before he went bald) father, blond is the mom, and his genes overrode hers?
at the very least I'll speculate blond is the mom of the 4 girls, 3 of whom got curly/dumpy from some dad of a less blond race, and maybe younger girl got mom's straight hair? she seems a little young to put effort into flat ironing
if we could see Big Shorts eclipsed by FrumpFro there might be a better understanding

 

[Analog Devolved]

revisiting the OP that picture is interesting
what's the dynamics here?
obviously Cowboy y Cowboy are cowbros, the cluster on the right is some sort of family, but exactly who is what, and does baldo in the ballcap fit into them?
maybe he's the curly-haired (before he went bald) father, blond is the mom, and his genes overrode hers?
at the very least I'll speculate blond is the mom of the 4 girls, 3 of whom got curly/dumpy from some dad of a less blond race, and maybe younger girl got mom's straight hair? she seems a little young to put effort into flat ironing
if we could see Big Shorts eclipsed by FrumpFro there might be a better understanding

I think it's a couple of Mexican cowboys, a core demographic. The old dude represents geezers that eat dinner at Wal Mart. And a group of friends, one of whom is very fat also a core demographic for Wal Mart dinner.

 

[XYZpdq]

I think it's a couple of Mexican cowboys, a core demographic. The old dude represents geezers that eat dinner at Wal Mart. And a group of friends, one of whom is very fat also a core demographic for Wal Mart dinner.

young girl, maybe big shorts, and blond seem to be the only ones who aren't fat
and young girl looks like she's working on it

 

[Dom Cruise]

I actually set foot in my local Wal-Mart again recently for the first time in years.

It's a little better than it was, but it's still absolutely a poor man's Target, down to the fact that they now sell a bunch of "pop culture" junk like Target does, with the only real advantage being the Wal-Mart is a little bigger, so there's simply more stuff.

One thing I do have to give credit for is my Wal-Mart does have a pretty large selection of video games, more than Target, in fact standing in the video game aisle gave me a surprisingly strong flashback to when Wal-Mart was one of my main places to buy a video game from.

So it does seem like they're trying, but it's still a poor man's Target in my neck of the woods.

On a side note, one thing that was funny is in the parking lot there was a "weeb car" with anime stickers on it which might be the first time I've ever seen anything like that in person.

revisiting the OP that picture is interesting
what's the dynamics here?
obviously Cowboy y Cowboy are cowbros, the cluster on the right is some sort of family, but exactly who is what, and does baldo in the ballcap fit into them?
maybe he's the curly-haired (before he went bald) father, blond is the mom, and his genes overrode hers?
at the very least I'll speculate blond is the mom of the 4 girls, 3 of whom got curly/dumpy from some dad of a less blond race, and maybe younger girl got mom's straight hair? she seems a little young to put effort into flat ironing
if we could see Big Shorts eclipsed by FrumpFro there might be a better understanding

It really is a weirdly fascinating picture.

I still can't remember whether the Radio Grill was before or after it was a McDonald's at my local store.

 

[murdered meat bag]

I think I spent my sundays with my great uncle and his korean war buddies during a summer so i went to look if there were any near his place. found this instead:

The Wal-Mart Radio Grill | David Boles, Blogs

by Sergio Vinocur Does Wal-Mart really care about the community? Isn’t Wal-Mart even the least bit concerned about correcting Priority Violations? Where do the complaint forms and ‘letters to the P…

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a Guy complained to walmart in 1999 about the radio grill employee serving dirty food.