Wi-Fi in the oddest places

With signs popping up all over the urban and even suburban landscape, “Free Wi-Fi” seems to be the newest hipster selling point for hotels and coffee shops. But in the internet revolution few seem willing to miss the bus. Big box retailers, goliath in the retail wars, are moving at an unusually rapid pace to meet the demand. With Borders Books and Barnes and Noble already on board and Northeastern Supermarket chain Super Stop and Shop offering free Wi-Fi to its customers among the fresh produce and snack crackers. Wal-Mart, the store that has everything, and seems to be everywhere would not respond to my query regarding any possible Wi-Fi offering in the future, which reinforces the notion that I am merely a bug on life’s windshield. To Wal-Mart, an entity at least twice as expansive as all life itself I am even more insignificant I suppose.