I am a Wal-Mart associate and have been for over 8 years now... I began working in the TLE dept and 1 year later, I came up with 2 characters and named them Wally & Marty...(everybody loved them) to help promote services that we performed in the Automotive dept and throught out the store...I was told by my store manager that he was going to have some costumes made up and 2 associates could walk around the store, talk to children and parents, unfortunatlly nothing ever became of it and Wally & Marty...have been shelved...I would really like to bring Wally & Marty back to the attention of Management...please tell me what you think!
Thank You!

Not only do we trek to Wally World, but those who go there often are "Wal-martians." We have often said that we go there so often that we are Wal-Martians.

BEST PART ABOUT WALLY WORLD IS YOU CAN PURCHASE WHAT YOU NEED AND TAKE IT BACK WHEN YOURE FINISHED AND GET YOUR MONEY BACK! THE RETURN LINE IN MY HOMETOWN IS LONGER THAN THE CHECKOUT LINES ALTOGETHER. WALLY WORLD IS A LARGE LOAN DEPARTMENT STORE.THE CRAP THEY SELL IS ONLY GOOD FOR ONE TIME USAGE! IF I COULD NOT RETURN IT I WOULD SHOP ELSEWHERE.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK WALLY.ITS NICE TO HAVE SOMEBODY TO SCREW

ur a weirdo donna

I dont know all about that.We have been calling it ,Wally World for the longest time and its not bcuz of no movie.You see I live in Connecticut and we have a Wal-Mart in Wallingford CT and thats why we always called it that nic name.(you can wally into wallingford and shop)

"wally world"...... in 1986 I worked for wal-mart.. the saying started out wal-mart world".. welcome to my world... wal=-mart world... then graduly went to wally world...... nothing to do with the moive at Aledo Ill,

i don't even care what it's called. all i know is walmart is not the place for anyone to go to. they terminate people for reasons that they think are reasonable. they lie about the investigations when it comes to termining of whether an associate is going to be able to work there or are they going to be terminated. the way i can tell is because i was told that. my advice to you guys don't ever shop there. because the assistant management always makes employees treat u like trash. u guys don't want that. believe me.

I worked for wally-world and the reason for the nickname is that wal-mart is a joke. I guess you could relate the nick name wally world to the movie because it's all just a joke. The way Wal-mart treats there employees it must be some kind of elaborate joke. No money No real schudeling and no real Managers. Just a bunch of wannabe's. LOL

Wal-Mart is shown in the following movie Christmas Vacation. After the sledding scene Clark ends up in a Wal_mart parking lot.

everyone who saw the movie in '83 knew that the lampoons were trying to rip "walt disney world" walmart was just a regular store at that time.

I call it WallyMart or Uncle Wally. I have a love-hate relationship with wal-mart. I love the low prices, but I hate it because it takes all my money. I go there so often, it's Uncle Wally, a part of the family.

I don't know where the nickname actually came from. But it wasn't the movie, the movie used that term because it was already common usage across the country. My family has been calling it that since the mid to late 70's.

Disneyland was founded by Walt (Wally )Disney. After his death the company was taken over by his brother Roy....hence the owner of Walley World in the movie was "Roy Wally" filmed at Majic Mountain amusement park just outside the San Fernando Valley, north of Los Angeles.

Wally world was also a term used( by employees) starting in the 80's and continues today for the grocery store chain named " WALDBAUMS" located in the Northeast.

All these comments are interesting concerning Wal-Mart. I would suggest that #8(barb key) try working for Target because the employees there tell me its that way there also concerning work conditions. The majority of the Wal-Mart employees that I interview say they would like more pay but that they knew the pay scale when they went to work there. Wal-Mart by any name brings to mind low prices and the smiley face. You cannot escape it.Go Wal-Mart RoudMan

Wally World was an Amusement Park! Wal-Mart is a store! Wally World in the movie referred to Walt Disney World, an Amusement Park. Duh!

In a perfect world, Walmart would be as real as Wally World.

Or rather, in a perfect world, Walmart would be closed just like Wally World.