Wednesday, January 14, 2009

week 1 / dara



Start time 12:30

Location Parkway Plaza shopping center: WalMart

Subject grabs a lone, grey shopping cart at the main entrance of WalMart and walks into the store.

- is a slim, youthful woman with a slender figure and shoulder-length auburn hair streaked with blonde. - wears blue hip-hugger jeans with a curvilinear “X” design on the back pockets and a bright yellow cap-sleeved t-shirt. Slung diagonally across her right shoulder is an unadorned green messenger bag.

Subject Enters, walks immediately toward the escalator at the front of the store, pushes her cart into the “carts only, riders” section of the escalator and steps to her right to ascend to the second floor.

Subject Reaches the top of the escalator and steps off (first with her right foot, then with her left), turns to her left and grabs the shopping cart.

- walks at a quick-stepped pace to the “Oil & Air Filters” section where she scans the top shelves containing various brands of oil.

With her left hand, Subject pulls a black cellular phone out of her front left pocket, punches in seven numbers (data unknown), and brings the phone to her left ear.

Subject moves down the same isle without the shopping cart; She talks into her phone.

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Subject returns to the “Oil & Air Filters” section and stands directly in front of the empty grey shopping cart. - shifts weight to her left foot. Her left hand holds the cellular phone; She positions her right hand on her right hip. She puts her phone away (front-left pocket) and grabs two jugs of motor oil :

GTX Syntec Blend

5 Qt. 5 Qt.

High Low

Subject places both jugs in the bottom of her cart. She pulls her phone out of her front-left pocket and dials seven numbers (data unknown) while walking to the opposite end of the aisle. She walks back to her cart, reaches in with her left hand, pulls out the Syntec Blend jug and puts it back on the shelf.

(With phone in right hand) Subject pushes the cart 4 aisles down.

- stands at front endcap.

- touches her face, then turns and continues to walk slowly. Her hips sway.

She stops in front of a giant metal cage filled with large bouncey balls:

Basic Ball 2.57

Character Ball 4.97

She puts her phone away (front-left pocket) and reaches between the giant bars. She grabs a pink and blue “basic ball,” drops it into her cart, and rounds a corner of the store.

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Subject walks to “Home Department” and begins looking at pillows.

- Grabs two long, white bed pillows

Subject moves down home accessories aisle Kitchen Towels

Placemats

Chair pads

Table runners

Subject coughs and covers her mouth with her right hand just as she reaches the children’s clothing department.

- looks down at a small rounder of t-shirts.

- clutches the hanger holding a small yellow Sponge Bob Square Pants shirt.

She tilts her head to the side, then scans rounders to her left and right.

She abruptly leaves her cart in the children’s clothing section.

Subject reclaims cart

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Subject relocated while looking at candles and mirrors. Her mouth is slightly ajar. She scans the rows of candles and candle holders, sporadically positioning one, then another hand on her waist.

She paces back and forth.

She crosses her arms over her chest, grabs a red candle with her right hand and pulls it close to her nose to take small sniffs.

She looks down on the bottom shelf at metal candle holder, and, with the red candle still in her right hand, she squats down on the shiny white tiled floor

- picks up a candle holder in her left hand.

- fits the red candle into the holder.

With both hands, she pulls the combined products up to her face and sniffs the candle again. She puts the candle and the selected holder into the top portion of the shopping cart

Subject walks back to the escalator, pushing her cart into the “carts only, riders” section and stepping to her right to descend.

Time: 1:10 PM

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