People of Walmart website mocks Walmart customers
Other | Hans | September 1, 2009 at 8:02 pmI recently came across a new website called People of Walmart (http://www.peopleofwalmart.com) that has quickly gone viral. This website was 
covered on sites like Times, Fox News, Times, Gawker, and Huffington Post.
The People of Walmart website puts up pictures of customers from Walmart with taglines underneath the pictures making fun of them. None of the pictures are blurred out, you can clearly see the faces of the people in most of these pictures. Anyone can submit any pictures that they come across to this website. Many people have already found this website funny, and the site has been down frequently due to an excessive amount of hits. The owners are planning to switch to a server that can handle all of the traffic.
What do you think of People of Walmart? Do you think they should continue mocking customers of Walmart? According to the website, pictures are on their with permission from the customers (although there’s no way to verify that). I think they should only do this if they have permission from their customers.
The People of Walmart website owner is also looking for someone who can create them an iPhone application. If you’re interested in developing an application for this website you can contact them at info@peopleofwalmart.com.
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What you don’t see in a still photo is the methamphetamine tweakers at Walmart twitching wildly and scratching themselves constantly.
Poor people are SO funny! Let’s get a good laugh until we have to join them! I hope you don’t end up featured on the site – that would sting now, wouldn’t it?
Isn’t this againest the law?If I where those people I would sue the crap out of walmart.
You can’t sue Walmart – they aren’t posting the pictures.
Why would you sue the crap out of wal=mart? wal-mart didn’t do anything…???
You are an idiot
I ****ing hate walmart.
folks are funny the world over but most gather at walmart, very interesting to sit in your car and watch them come and go and most people think no one will see them at walmart so do not care or NEVER EVER LOOK IN THEIR MIRROR TO SEE WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE!!!!!! i’M LOOKING THE THE PEOPLE OF WALMART WEBSITE SO CAN VIEW THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!AND GET A GOOD LAUGH AND PROPABLY SEE MYSELF!!!!!!!
the link is ****ed
as long as the face is blurred the site is ok
the face isn’t blurred.
hey penny, it’s not about poor people, it’s about people who look like freaks. plenty of poor people dress well and look presentable in public – they just shop at target instead of wal mart.
get over yourself
There are probably people who think you look like a freak. I have a hard time believing that you would be laughing if you saw a picture of yourself on a website like this.
Hate to tell you this, but as they are in a public location they have no expectation of privacy. The only possible issue would be if their image or likeness were being used for commercial gain.
What this site is doing is perfectly legal, more over its hilarious as will hopefully make someone think about what they are wearing before going out in public.
The only bad I can see coming from this site is that wal-mart management may see some of these photos and actually make stores start enforcing dress policies (which yes they do have, and while amazing lacks, a number of these subjects are in violation of)
E.G. if I go to the park, take a picture of you and blow it up to the size of a billboard and put it in my front yard: there is nothing you can do
If I do this and use your image in an advertising campaign you have recourse.
Photos and the display of them are greatly misunderstood, but let me ask you: When you take vacation photos and show them to your friends/family do you blur or block out the identity of everyone but those that gave you permission to take the photo of them? I am willing to bet if you went back you would find a couple of extra people that are completely identifiable.
Actually this website uses “walmart” in their .com domain name. Walmart is obviously trademarked so this website will have legal issues. Walmart can easily claim PeopleOfWalmart.com domain from it’s owner.
Actually I believe the legal name is “Wal-Mart”, so unless they change their domain name to be peopleofwal-mart.com, they’re probably safe.
Actually it’s Wal*Mart now
Hiya!. Thanks for the blog. I’ve been digging around for info, but there is so much out there. Yahoo lead me here – good for you i guess! Keep up the great information. I will be coming back over here in a couple of days to see if there is any more info.
I’ll never understand why some people have the urge to tear others down all the time. What really cracks me up is that I know many religious people who think this sight is hilarious. What Would Jesus Do?