Wal*Mart's Rent-A-Cop drove up and stared at us for a while and then left.
I found myself thinking that each of these cameras could represent tens, hundreds, or thousands of viewers. The shoppers with their cell phones telling somebody "this is great" probably represented a more nuclear family sized crowd.

  

   

Ruth had fun interviewing the Wal*Mart CEO. She asked questions like "why don't you give your employees good health care benefits?" The CEO would explain how it was cheaper to just make them rely on California's benefits for the poor.

  

The Wal*Mart employees ignored us, and everything else that wandered by while we were there.