POSITIVE ADVERTISEMENT FOR WALMART

I personally don't think they'll go for it.

In all honesty.... the first thing that came to mind was.... "Shop
smart! Shop S-Mart!"

I suspect the higher-ups at Walmart aren't going to adopt a slogan
that makes people think of Ash.

Great idea! I am patenting the following words:

Smart-Bucks
CVSmart
MicroSmart
Exxon-Mosmart
Bank of Amerismart
ChevroSmart

Well, it did make me laugh my butt off. . . but I doubt that was the
intended effect.

I don't know, I would imagine these people might have a problem with
it.

I don't know about Wal-Mart, but most companies have a policy against
accepting unsolicited advertising suggestions. In fact, many
companies have a policy that if you write to them with a suggestion,
they will not even acknowledge it.

The fact that you're seeking intellectual property protection for your
idea is more reason for them to take the hard stance. By writing a
letter like this (especially this one, which is publicly posted),
you've established that it was your idea ("prior art"). To them, this
means "stay away from this." It can also mean that they saw your idea
in an earlier letter and have already registered this idea (as a
service mark, not a patent) as their own.

Now, if they happen to think it's a winning idea, they might contact
you to arrange to take over thing rights to it.

and you made my morning. Have a nice day!

Thank you! Its nice to be back. I drop in every now and again just to
see whats going on. I dont have much time to even get online these
days.

That seems dangerously close to PetSmart.

Please do not take this as being sarcastic because its not meant to be
but do you not think that someone from their marketing/advertising
division has not thought of this yet?

I mean its nice but since I do not shop WalMart very often it just
would not get me to go there any more than I do...which is about 3
times a year.

But seriously...eventually you may come up with a slogan for another
company. You seem to be pretty good at this.

You can't patent a word. If you've suggested this for 5 years and
they haven't used it by now, I doubt they have any plans to.

This company is certainly a candidate for negative feelings and
reviews. I have no idea how "WalSmart" fits into the WalMart
experience, and maybe they don't either. You would think that after 5
years, if they were interested, you would have either heard from them
or they would be using the term.

Patent: "The exclusive right, granted by the government, to make use
of an invention or process for a specific period of time, usually 14
years." I don't see how you can patent a word. There would be all
the diagrams, explanation of how it improves on the existing
technology, etc.

I hate Walmart, but I like your suggestion. However, I don't think
they take advertising suggestions from outside sources (except an ad
agency). Most companies don't.

You could tailor the same notion to Wallgreens too but it's not
rhyming.