JW in Wal-Mart Parking Lot - I couldn't believe it

by RubaDub 16 Replies latest jw friends

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  RubaDub

  I'm on my way home from work and had to detour due to an accident on the highway. I passed a Wal-Mart and instead of just sitting in the traffic, I pulled in to get some stuff I needed for the garden.

  On my way out, I spot someone who appears to be selling something (rather common in parking lots here in South Florida). Anyway, as I got closer, here was a brother sitting in a lawn chair under a tree on one of the little grassy areas where they plant the trees in the parking lot.

  At his side, he had pulled a Wal-Mart shopping cart up on the grass. I looked at it, and he had HUNDREDS of WTs and Awakes in it. He had 3 stacks with at least a hundred or more in each stack in a Wal-Mart shopping cart !!!

  I smiled and just kept walking.

  Maybe it's me, but I just found that really odd.

  Rub a Dub
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  highdose

  its not just you, i should imagine everybody there found that odd.
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  darth frosty

  Yeah!!!

  Get those placement numbers up. Dude prolly gon place all those and look like the man next CO visit!!!

  LMAO!
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  blondie

  Based on the new policy, he could have taken them back to the KH, no questions asked.

  I wonder if those are from the time when jws had to pay the WTS for their magazines? I wonder if he was asking for money?
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  JWoods

  Some WalMarts used to let them set up tables close to the doors like a hot dog stand. There was a thread with a picture of them a long time ago in the previous version of the site. I would think that a thinking WalMart manager would hesitate to do this just to avoid pissing their customers off.
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  troubled mind

  Last summer they had a table set up right in front of the Wal-Mart store on the outside .I can't imagine anyone took them seriously .....other than a few patrons thinking to themselves "Pester us at home now I can't even go to Wally world w/o being bugged ".

  But having the mags all stacked in a shopping cart seems a bit tacky to me ,but maybe that's how they do it in Florida ?
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  Jim_TX

  I know it is often better to leave them alone, but sometimes - it might be a good idea to lodge a complaint with management - not sure what you could use to get them tossed out - and banned - but maybe something about them being a cult?

  These people are NOT 'harmless'.

  Regards,

  Jim TX
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  SnakesInTheTower

  blondie:

  Based on the new policy, he could have taken them back to the KH, no questions asked

  Is this a policy after dec 2006? I dont remember a specific policy saying bring them back to the KH...but I do remember we had announcements made at the local kh...local policy...bring them back.... we ended up with a couple of thousand back issues stretching back a decade or more. I ended up carting several boxes to a recycling bin in town..... and going through and sorting the rest...after awhile, the remaining few hundred "back issues" followed their fibrous brethren to that great recycling bin in the sky (or at the local store).

  tm:

  But having the mags all stacked in a shopping cart seems a bit tacky to me ,but maybe that's how they do it in Florida ?

  dunno about the shopping cart thing, but I know my mom and her friends used to have litterally (misspelling on purpose) hundreds of mags in their car trunks....they would go out early morning witnessing (aka, easy field service time), and hit the immigrants...apparently the immigrants used the free reading material to brush up on their English.... the sisters would place 15-25 English language mags at each bus stop with spanish speakers...I guess some of them must have become dubs because the Spanish congos grow like crazy in S. FL while the English are consolidating.

  Snakes (Rich )
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  blondie

  Here it is, Snakes, the new procedure.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/members/private/192793/1/New-way-to-get-the-magazines-starting-from-tonight-on

  They just read a letter from the faithful slave that said there will be no more boxes with our numbers and our orders for the magazines. Now they will just put out a stack of the Watchtowers and Awakes out and you are to take what you need. If you do not use them all then you are to bring them back to the hall.
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  OnTheWayOut

  What you do when you see a JW in Walmart's parking lot: get some Mormon or Scientology literature and set up next to them.