People of Walmart

People of Walmart is a website that posts pictures of people taken at Walmart stores across the nation. You can search by state to see funny pictures from your local Walmart.

The site is not affiliated with Walmart.

People of Walmart was founded August 2009 by three friends and roommates in Myrtle Beach, SC after an inspirational trip to Walmart.

"My friend Andrew and I worked retail while in college. We had talked to his brother Adam, who worked at a marketing firm, about starting a website of some kind. One day Andrew and I were shopping at Walmart and we took a picture of something funny. The idea for PeopleofWalmart came to us. We talked about starting the website with Adam. Adam bought the URL and the site went live," Luke Wherry, PeopleofWalmart Co-Creator, told Northeast Cobb Patch.

The trio promoted the site, and requested Walmart pictures, on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. They visited Walmarts to take pictures themselves the first couple of weeks.

"The site went viral. Our server crashed from too many visitors, so we had to invest a lot of money in better equipment. The first month we were live, CNN picked us up. We were on Yahoo!'s main page," said Wherry.

According to Wherry, Walmart's only comment about their site is that it isn't news worthy.

PeopleofWalmart is a full-time gig for the three friends with an estimated 1,000 picture submissions a week.

"Five percent of those pictures make it on site," Wherry said. "We screen the pictures. We don't publish pictures that are staged or that feature someone handicapped, or disabled."

Check out the site. You may see people you know from the Northeast Cobb Walmart.