Just in time for Halloween!
Your loving folks at Wal-Mart have always had your families best interest in mind! Now, through direct shipping from the Wal-Mart.com website, they want to help you during your families time of grieving.
Wal-Mart is now selling caskets and urns to help you through your time of bereavement. Quality, handcrafted burials products are available at the Online store at great Wal-Mart prices.
I’m not sure how I feel about this… I mean, on the surface, I think I would feel quite weird and put-off shopping for my loved-one’s casket, plus the morbidity of even considering the fact that Wal-Mart is trying to service this segment of the population just seems… wrong. However, the more I think about it, the more I guess it makes sense. Wal-Mart has continually grown into new markets as they have expanded, (SuperStore supermarkets, tires and car repair, gas), so I guess it was only a matter of time before they started supplying us with burial paraphernalia.
I think that this is only the beginning though. I can envision Wal-Mart taking this to the next step and getting their Sam’s Club outlet into the action, offering bulk savings on buying, say, a 6-pack of caskets, or a drum of embalming fluid or something like that. You heard it here first!
I have decided I just want to be burned on a burning pyre, like in the olden days… pushed out to sea and lighted by flaming arrow from one of my faithful archers from the shore.
6 Comments
October 29, 2009 at 2:41 pm
You obviously haven’t buried anybody yet. Funeral Homes get quite a nice markup and don’t have much competition. Now all they need is a nice area in the back for the visitations.
October 29, 2009 at 4:19 pm
AH, too true Ralph. I say bypass the whole thing and just do the Viking burial at sea idea
Maybe this is a business niche that hasn’t been tapped… hmmm….
October 29, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Okay, this is too weird.
October 30, 2009 at 3:49 am
Happy Halloween Nino (we don’t celebrate that in Singapore)!
When I leave the world, I’ll probably be incinerated. Singapore is short of land for burying.
Ash to ash.
October 30, 2009 at 10:19 am
Don’t forget putting over the hill folks on the iceberg and pushing them off.
October 30, 2009 at 10:56 am
@SBS – yes, that is how it struck me too!
@Shingo – two words.. Viking funeral, seriously.
@Ralph – I can imagine the uproar we would have, but I would say that is pretty ecologically friendly!