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Apparently, Pitbull wants to be sure they sell bearspray at the Kodiak Walmart ‘cause he’s going there to perform after that city’s Walmart got more than 70,000 likes on Facebook in a recent Walmart social media campaign.

The population of Kodiak, which is the largest island in Alaska, is only about 13,000.

Check out this Anchorage Daily News article for more about how what was intended to be a prank on Walmart actually turned out pretty awesome for the company.

This article appears in Jul 19-25, 2012.

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Pitbull Will go to Kodiak, Alaska

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
July 18, 2012

<h1>Pitbull Will go to Kodiak, Alaska</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />July 18, 2012</p> <p><p class="MsoNormal"><img title="pitbull rapper" src="http://static.djbooth.net/pics-artist/pitbull2.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="250" />Apparently, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitbull_(entertainer)" target="_blank">Pitbull</a> wants to be sure they sell bearspray at the Kodiak Walmart &lsquo;cause he&rsquo;s going there to perform after that city&rsquo;s Walmart got more than 70,000 likes on Facebook in a recent Walmart social media campaign.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The population of Kodiak, which is the largest island in Alaska, is only about 13,000.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Check out this <a href="http://www.adn.com/2012/07/17/2545935/writers-facebook-caper-sends-pitbull.html" target="_blank">Anchorage Daily News article</a> for more about how what was intended to be a prank on Walmart actually turned out pretty awesome for the company.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/pitbull-will-go-to-kodiak-alaska-2178531/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=20352&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/pitbull-will-go-to-kodiak-alaska-2178531/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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