Fellow citizens,

I write to warn you of a devastating epidemic which is sweeping the nation with unprecedented force: Wal-Mart-itis. This deadly inflammation of savings on consumer goods has already overwhelmed more than 3,000 towns across the country. This is what it has done in the last 40 hours (or years?):

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Expect the worst. Experts say the next 40 hours (or years?) could usher in a new era of nearly constant savings. WalMartWatch has been predicting just this sort of disaster since last year–if only we had listened!