Here's some excitement! Today an online friend of mine attended a Walmart opening presided over by Sandy. Here's his report:
In a word... BORRR-ING.
All Sandra did the entire time was sign copies of one of her books. She was all mic-ed up and everything, but all you ever heard was her side of conversations with the people in line. I was able to kill some time in the coffee shop across the way (the store is rather upscale for a Walmart), but there really was no "presentation" to speak of. Items that could have been used for some sort of demonstration were still sitting there unused when I finally gave up after over an hour.
Her staff dutifully churned out samples of strawberry shortcake (hard to screw THAT up when you start with a store-bought cake), placing them on the far end of the table from Sandra, behind a bunch of boxes of decorative stuff stacked there for no apparent reason other than to make the samples unnecessarily difficult to reach.
After about 45 minutes they switched over to making smoothie samples with strawberries, bananas and orange juice (and sugar, I think). The concoction resembled Pepto-Bismol in appearance. Eventually, I opted to take the tablespoon-size sample medicine-style, throwing it as far back in my mouth as possible. The back of my tongue reported that I had made a good call on that one. It was really surprisingly sour for a drink with added sugar. And it had the seeds from the strawberries in it, which seems to me to be contrary to the concept of a "smoothie".
He adds that her boobs are slung unnaturally low.
