New Years Eve compliance struggles at Home Depot, Walmart, Dollar General, Sears, and millions of other stores

jw · 2012-01-01T22:46:20+00:00

AP NewsJanuary 1, 2012 11:29am EST.While everyone else was watching the ball drop in Times Square,drinking, and partying, employees at Home Depot, Walmart, DollarGeneral, Sears, and millions of other stores around America werehustling to remove all the 100W incandescent bulbs from the storeshelves, while specially trained FBI agents with oozies stood outsidethe doors of these stores to insure compliance. These underpaid storeemployees sweated profusely in the race to get these most dangerous,energy wasting light bulbs off the store shelves, and into locked andguarded steel security vaults, where they will be escorted by armedguards as they are hauled to the U.S. border to be shipped to foreigncountries for sale and consumer use. These overworked store employees worked early into the morning fortheir measly minimum wages, and were forced to work that late shift,or lose their jobs. Most did not complain, since they knew they wereworking to make America a better place and it was their patriotic dutyto their country. Officials estimate that of the stores that openedon New Years morning, 97.624% of these illegal lightbulbs had beenremoved off the shelves, while armed agents in civilian clothingsearched the stores looking for any remaining bulbs that may have beenhidden under displays, in restrooms, or in dark storage areas in therear of these stores. So far, there have been no arrests or shootings reported. However,many more stores will reopen their doors on Monday morning, and it isat that time when Federal agents will have to insure 100% compliancewith the new ban on 75w, 100w, and larger incandescent light bulbs.It is at this time, that these agents will have their fingers on thetriggers of their weapons and may have to use brute force against themanagers and employees of the stores who are not yet into compliance,since these employees and employers have had the entire 24 hours ofNew Years day to accomplish this task.It's estimated that enforcement of this ban...

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Harry K 14 years ago

In total agreement with that. I started swapping years ago and am happy with the results. No more crawling ladders to replace the bulbs in the two yard lights every few months.

The only time I notice them is during the warm up period when I go to the garage in cold weather and nothing I am doing in there won't wait a few seconds.

Harry K

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Attila.Iskander 14 years ago

Are you irony impaired ? And the only similarity between an Uzi and an AK-47 is that they are both guns.

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