Mystery Object

What is this object?

1. An electric fly catcher.

2. A hockey puck cleaner.

3. A shoe shiner.

4. A "water clock."

5. A change counter.

6. It can't possibly be any of the above choices.
answer

It's my Wal-Mart

Some quotations drawn from "It's My Wal-Mart: 2004 Annual report:"

From a section with title Raising the Standard of Living:

Pamela Jordan grew up in the south Los Angeles neighborhood of Baldwin Hills, where oil rigs once pumped until developers discovered the area in the 1950s. Today, she lives with her 16 year-old grandson only eight minutes away from this mostly African-American community, and continues to stay in the neighborhood...

Clouds may be gathering over Pamela but she's soon to be rewarded for her gutsy decision "to continue to stay in the neighborhood" despite being only "8 minutes away" from the "African-American community:"

That's why she was delighted in 2003 when Wal-Mart made the decision to place one of its stores in an abandoned three-story Macy's property in the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw Plaza shopping center on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

It's just like on TV!

"I walk in there and I know the staff. They are friendly and smiling. They say `Hey, how you doing, welcome to Wal-Mart!' They really do that, just like in the commercials..."