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It's relevant because this Wal Mart should be seen as an isolated incident, instead of a general trend, due to it's unique issues.Why is this relevant? Are sketchy areas more prone to workplace shootings?
1) This area is, in general, a pretty nice one. Typically to the left of 64 is a worse area, but all the stores in the Kroeger parking lot are a lot better than the Walmart, despite being in said area. In other words, The stereotype that poverty=crime doesn't work in this instance. Also, all of the stores surrounding the Walmart are actually full of really nice employees and typically nice patrons. Heck, I frequent the Sams club and a few of my former coworkers from Target work there currently. Literally no fear of taking my family to any other store in this picture. TLDR: nice area with a really crappy store.
2) Like I mentioned above, it wasn't just the people that shopped there that happened to be "sketch" it was also the employees. Now, I get that very few people really enjoy working retail jobs (been there done that, got the T-shirt), but this Wal Mart was specifically bad. Back in my Target days, 2014-ish, the produce manager of this Wal Mart would shop at Target...instead of getting a discount at her own store. Why? Because we actually treated her like a human being...a manager, back in 2014. The store just reeked of toxicity from the top down. TLDR: This has been an ongoing issue within this specific store for the better part of a decade plus.
3) To conclude, I'm not shocked that this specific Wal Mart had an employee open up on his fellow employees. If you foster a work culture of selfishness, laziness, backstabbing, and rudeness, it was only a matter of time before something bad happened, unfortunately in this case with a firearm. If it happened at any other store in the above imagine, I'd be legit shocked...but this place? Not at all.