Maybe it was your specific Walmart, but the one I was at earlier wasn’t loud at all. I’m sure they have a volume on them that the store can turn up or down. Definitely talk to the managers about it, some stupid customer sales associate may have done it to be a smartass the day before they quit or something.
Just wait folks, there’s plans to put billboards in orbit and to project images on the moon…
First ad will be for “Chonko, the Nutty Chew”.
A prize for the first one guessing the reference.
Apparently, it’s from Pogo, but I was sure the first add would be for 6-Up. And I’ll donate my prize to who first gets that reference. 
6-up? A Victor Borge bit about a relative who had “nearly succeeded” or am I off?
Not even close, but thanks for playing. 
Heinlein - The Man Who Sold The Moon.
Winnah!
At least with the ads projected onto the moon, there won’t be any annoying audio like the crap at the checkout line.
Wait, you can’t decide whether ads that you can read through, go to the bathroom through, go get snacks through, sleep through, talk to your friend through, daydream through, or just plain ignore until they’re over and the previews start, just before an uninterrupted movie on a huge freaking screen starts might be MORE annoying than watching a sliced up, diced up, no doubt full screen (spit) version of a movie on a tiny screen (in comparison, and to hell with anyone who says they have a “big screen TV”) that’s interrupted constantly by loud, obnoxious commercials??? Are you freaking kidding me?
That’s fine. Stay home, though you’ll see many many more ads at home than you will in the theater. I’ll make up the slack for you. Last year I saw over 150 movies in the theater (and we do indeed have a honkin’ huge big screen TV) and this year I’ll probably see at least as many. We have a killer system, audio and video, and over 1500 DVDs, but nothing, NOTHING, beats seeing movies in the theater.
There aren’t ads in all those places?
Doesn’t bother me, as long as the movie is otherwise good, such as Iron Man. And as someone who loves Burger King burgers (not saying they’re great or anything, just that I’d much rather have a BK burger than a Big Mac) I don’t much blame Stark for stopping at Burger King. If it were me, and if there weren’t a Fuddruckers on the way to a press conference I had to attend, I might too.
Do you really go to the movies 3 times a week? 
Originally Posted by lobotomyboy63
There are alternatives, like second-run, drive in, pay per view, waiting for the DVD…
Originally Posted by Equipose
There aren’t ads in all those places?
There are…they just don’t cost $9.
How big of an ad can you project on the moon? Might work for a round logo, like AT&T’s.
Often, and sometimes more. Also, when we do go to the movies, we rarely see just one. We almost always see at least two, very often three, and once in a while, four or five. My “record” is six movies in one day, but that was at a film festival, where it’s normal and expected, and no one looks at you like you’re an alien from another planet, the way you’re looking at me now.
We’ve got the “radio” version of those at the local BP. Last time I filled up at the BP station, the “radio” rickrolled me as soon as I got out of the car. I am, however, lucky enough that the places I purchase things most often these days (Publix, Hess) don’t have this kind of advertising.
FWIW, they tried these at the chain of grocery stores I go to a few years ago (Harris Teeter) and customer response was negative enough that they took them out. However, with grocery stores it is easier to take all of your business elsewhere, so Wal-Mart may have some of you trapped.
So all of us are scumbags if we shop at Walmart. Thanks. You shop at Walmart so you’re a fellow scumbag. You’ll be leaving Walmart because of the ads, not because you wish to become better than a scumbag.
… and your point is? 
Clarification.