WalMart: A Disgrace

[FOTD]

Never ever go there....never ever will.

The heart of Dumbf*ckistan! This company ransacked small town America and now they want to run our world. No surprise. Boycott WalMart if you aren't already.

Wal-Mart mobilizes against Democrats: report
Wall Street Journal says effort aimed at thwarting unions

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25967103/from/ET/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121755649066303381.html?mod=hpp_us_pageone

[joiei]

Be careful,  inteller will be all over you about bashing his favorite store.

[T-Town Now]

I DO NOT shop at Wal-Mart. Ever.

It is un-American.

Stupid people think they're saving money, so they pull in to Wal-Mart in their FOREIGN CARS to buy FOREIGN CRAP, and they don't even realize they're literally shopping themselves out of a job.

Like high gas prices? Thank the Republicans for that (who could have possibly imagined two oil men in charge would result in obscene profits for oil companies, and record setting prices at the pump?) and thank your friends and neighbors who shop at Wal-Mart. Their dollars get pumped right back into the Chinese economy, where gas prices are controlled by government, and big American SUVs are all the rage.

We can cut back all we want here in America, but as long as the Asian market has no reason to conserve, demand for gas will be high.

If I can't find it someplace other than Wal-Mart, I don't need it and I don't buy it.

[Wilbur]

I shop at Walmart and Sam's for lots of stuff and will continue to do so.  Looks like I'll be making up for FOTD and T-Town Now.

It's called capitalism.  Got a better method then Walmart, go for it.  You'll become rich.

[sgrizzle]

If Wal-Mart could win via capitalism and stay legal, then that would be one thing but they have more lawsuits pending than Microsoft.

I don't support a company who's new employee training includes a section on signing up for food stamps and medicaid.

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

If Wal-Mart could win via capitalism and stay legal, then that would be one thing but they have more lawsuits pending than Microsoft.

I don't support a company who's new employee training includes a section on signing up for food stamps and medicaid.

are they pointing people towards public assistance because those people didn't know how or what?  It would be against the law for walmart to train their employees to game the system.

SO I call bull****.  But please, provide some concrete evidence otherwise.

Wal-mart is no saint, but then the lipstick wearing pig called Target is no better.

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by T-Town Now

I DO NOT shop at Wal-Mart. Ever.

It is un-American.

Stupid people think they're saving money, so they pull in to Wal-Mart in their FOREIGN CARS to buy FOREIGN CRAP, and they don't even realize they're literally shopping themselves out of a job.

those "foreign" cars you speak of are most likely made here.  Go look where a Ford or GM product is made.  Chances are it is mexico or Canada.  Don't pull that bull****.  Many many Toyotas and Hondas are made here (which is why their reliability is falling)

I'll tell you what is un-american.  Unions.  They have ruined this country with their lazy entitlement work ethic.  Unions are unneeded in this country.  They and the government have created a lazy handout craving society.  Those "jobs americans won't do" are a result of this...because those lazy americans think they are too good and would rather just take a gov handout, or go on strike because they want $20 hr to drive a rivet.  

The bottom dwellers of our society need to get off their asses, stop whining, and go do the jobs they have willingly let illegals take.  ANd if they don't like digging ditches and picking cabbage, then they need to go get an education.  And don't give me the line about keeping a job and going to school is hard.  There are people in 3rd world countries that do it every day.  That is why they are making all the "foriegn crap" and we are buying it from them.

[Wilbur]

So, let me see if I get this:

We don't want to shop at Walmart and are involved in an unorganized boycott, I would guess, in order to shut down the store.

But, Walmart employs 1,200,000 people in the US.  I guess we want to put 1.2M out of work and put them on the government's dime.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/secrets/stats.html

And these 1.2M people have such great employment skills/potential/education that they are going to jump right into some huge paying job where?

Walmart pays more then most fastfood places, so why don't we hear calls to boycott everyone of those?

[FOTD]

Does it have more to do with pay or manipulating a free society towards control of ideas and votes through their corporate culture.

FOTD does not believe the liberal founders meant freedom of this kind when they wrote our constitution. Were King George and England similar to todaze Walmart culture?

[dbacks fan]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

If Wal-Mart could win via capitalism and stay legal, then that would be one thing but they have more lawsuits pending than Microsoft.

I don't support a company who's new employee training includes a section on signing up for food stamps and medicaid.

I take it you saw "Wal-Mart, The High Cost of Low Prices".

[booWorld]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

Never ever go there....never ever will.

Seldomly go to Walmart, and intended to boycott the "urban" store proposed for downtown Tulsa had it been built.

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by dbacks fan

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

If Wal-Mart could win via capitalism and stay legal, then that would be one thing but they have more lawsuits pending than Microsoft.

I don't support a company who's new employee training includes a section on signing up for food stamps and medicaid.

I take it you saw "Wal-Mart, The High Cost of Low Prices".

Yup

[TheArtist]

I just try to remember to shop as local as possible. Need and can do better, but its a better habit worth cultivating imo.

[joiei]

Wal-Mart seems to be doing quite well with out my support so I will keep doing what I am doing.  I have no reason to shop there.  It is nothing radical or political, they have nothing I need or want.

[we vs us]

quote:Originally posted by TheArtist

I just try to remember to shop as local as possible. Need and can do better, but its a better habit worth cultivating imo.

Artist nailed it.  Shopping local makes sure your money stays in the community. We do it as much as we can, too.

Wal-Mart has been working on its business practices lately, trying to source local produce and pushing for some strong green intiativees inside the company.  Just like it's always done, Wal-Mart's willing to use its size and clout to change the business environment; this time, at least, it's using that clout for good, not evil.

I still like Target better, though.