I've changed my mind. Wal-Mart is great. They should have stores everywhere.

This is because my third and last Pepsi from Wal-Mart held a winning song, so I'm now 10 for 21 (7 songs, 3 free Pepsis). The song I purchased was Barry White's "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe," which is specifically relevant to my life in that I was born during the one week it was at #1 in Billboard (the week of September 21, 1974).

One problem with the advance of technology: there's quite a difference between saying to a woman "here, let's listen to Barry White on my hi-fi" and "here, you listen to Barry White on my iPod."

In other news, the cashier at Sav-On did know what to do when handed a "buy one, get one free" cap (it came out as "0.00 PROMO" on the receipt), so I've got still more 20-ounce Pepsis in the fridge, to be posted about here in further updates.

Original comments...

Levi: I assume this is all part of a nefarious deal in which, in exchange for better positioning at Wal-Mart, Pepsi agreed to up the percentage of winning bottles shipped to Wal-Mart. And the federal government probably got involved in the negotiations just so they could, like, exempt Wal-Mart from those onerous minimum wage laws and such. Nefariousisity.