I shop at Wal-Mart, I'm sure just about everyone does from time to time, whether they like to admit it or not. For the most part, I like the store, as their prices and large array of inventory makes shopping there an easy decision. That being said, as the title of this article would indicate, I do have a gripe about the place.

Wal-Mart's policy on selling music without explicit lyrics, is, in a word, hypocritical. If you want to sell edited copies too, fine, by all means go ahead. I'm sure there are some people who like listening to edited music without a barrage of foul language. But when a store like Wal-Mart takes such pride in the fact that they don't sell music with explicit content, yet they have no problem selling R rated DVDs or Mature rated games, it makes me wonder what's going on. If you're going to portray yourself as a family friendly store then go all out, don't sell R rated movies which may contain more "F" words than your latest 50 Cent CD, and definitely more nudity and violence. Wal-Mart has a policy to not sell a movie rated R to anyone under the age of 17. Why can't they sell music with explicit lyrics and just use the same policy? Once again, where does the hypocrisy end and the truth begin? The truth is that Wal-Mart would lose out on a lot of money if they refused to sell DVDs with an R rating, and so they walk a line between their supposed morals and their need for greed.