Sprawl-Mart

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Sprawl-Mart is the name of a fictional store in The Simpsons. A parody of Wal-Mart, amongst other features resembling Wal-Mart it features a similar logo, with a star in its logo in place of the hyphen. Sprawl-Mart's shelves have featured Jaclyn Smith's line of axe heads, and religious films featuring vegetables, a parody of VeggieTales.

Banners below the Sprawl-Mart sign (in one episode) read "Not a Parody of Wal-Mart", "Don't Watch 60 Minutes This Week", and "If you worked here, you'd be poor by now." In Springfield, Sprawl-Mart is located near the Costington's department store (which is next to the men's shelter.)

In the episode "The Fat and the Furriest", when Homer, Bart, and Lisa are finding a Mother's Day present for Marge, they see Grampa as the People Greeter at Sprawl-Mart. Homer buys the Kitchen Carnival at Sprawl-Mart, which he later uses for himself.

Sprawl-Mart returned in the episode "On A Clear Day I Can't See My Sister", where Homer sees Grampa, but when Grampa is put in a cart and run into gnomes, he wants Homer to become the new people greeter. Eventually, Homer does. The manager likes Homer's work and he makes Homer work overtime without being paid, a reference to the criticism of Wal-Mart for the low pay of its associates (employees), and without being allowed to leave the store. If Homer refused to work overtime, the manager threatened to move him to Mexico because he may have been an illegal immigrant. Homer then manually took out the compliance chip the company implanted in him, "without any brain damage-damage-amage-amage-amage-amage," and tried to rally the other workers to shut the store down because they were being exploited. However, they would not join Homer's cause because they all "learned to accept the things they can't change...and steal everything that isn't nailed down." With this chance for revenge and profit, Homer used a forklift to take many plasma TVs, riding triumphantly into the night.

Sprawl-Mart is also a term used in criticism of Wal-Mart, in reference to its placement of stores outside urban centers, encouraging urban sprawl.