Wal-Mart Executives Kind Of Weirded Out By Town Not Putting Up Any Resistance To Store Opening

LITTLETON, MA—Staring over a month-old press release announcing the opening of a new Supercenter, senior executives at Wal-Mart said they were a little freaked out that the people of Littleton, MA appear to have made no effort to stop them. “No emotionally charged town hall meetings, no petitions to save local businesses, no calls to state representatives, nothing,” chief operating officer Gisel Ruiz said as she reread the company statement explaining that the first phase of construction would entail demolishing several buildings of historical significance to the town. “It’s been so quiet, it’s making me nervous. What if they’re up to something? Even if they’re not, maybe this isn’t a good location for us after all. If there’s no public outrage, something must be wrong.” At press time, executives had stated that as long as nobody cared, they would go ahead and start phasing out employee health care benefits completely.