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Wal-Mart Bans Boozing innovator

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Wal-Mart is essentially modern-day America's wild-west, especially after 9 P.M. and on Black Friday. In fact, if you go to YouTube and search "Wal-Mart" you'll be presented with a list of things that range from the bizarre to the barbaric.  Yet apparently the line is drawn at a woman driving an electric shopping cart while sipping wine from  a Pringles can. The mistake this woman made was the Pringles can. Any alcoholic will tell you that the key to catching a buzz in public is to put your booze in something nondescript: a coke bottle, a solid-colored water bottle, even a sunscreen bottle . Pringles cans aren't meant to hold liquids, so your giving yourself away immediately. Was this lady an innovator of sorts? Yes, but innovators have to fail before they succeed. Do you know how many different things Edison tried before he developed a working light bulb? Probably a lot. This probably wasn't even the most debaucherous thing going on at Wal-Mart at ...