Just came back from Wally-World .

With a roasted chicken, two DVDs,Star Trek's Nemesis, and Peter Pan , The Lord of the Rings Risk game and a mountain of snacks.
Life is good.

better flame bait than this.

I'm relatively new here . Why is Wal-Mart in the flame bait category?

They come into town, get all kinds of tax concessions from the City Parents (how's THAT for PC? I didn't say "City FATHERS"...)by promising JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!!! then procede to hire part-time help for almost minimum wage, indoctrinate them into "Wall-Mart GOOD! Unions BAD!" then under-price every other store in town until they fold.

So, a lot of us are left with no place TO shop except Evil W-M.

There are some on this board who feel that you should NEVER shop at Walmart, even if you have to start growing your own cotton for clothes and raising your own livestock for food to avoid doing so. And they get strident about it sometimes...

among many, many reason, are:

1. They force the American manufacturers they buy from to move their manufacturing jobs overseas to lower their prices, thus destroying jobs for Americans.

2. They push local business out and harm the overall employment picture of every community they move in to.

3. They pay exceedingly low wages, exploit their workers in ways too numerous to list here.

I'm sure someone here can provide plenty of links to web sites detailing their many atrocities.

like these:

Wal-Mart cultivates an aw-shucks, we’re-just-folks-from-Arkansas image of neighborly small-town shopkeepers trying to sell stuff cheaply to you and yours. Behind its soft homespun ads, however, is what one union leader calls "this devouring beast" of a corporation that ruthlessly stomps on workers, neighborhoods, competitors, and suppliers.


Despite its claim that it slashes profits to the bone in order to deliver "Always Low Prices," Wal-Mart banks about $7 billion a year in profits, ranking it among the most profitable entities on the planet.


Of the 10 richest people in the world, five are Waltons—the ruling family of the Wal-Mart empire. S. Robson Walton is ranked by London’s "Rich List 2001" as the wealthiest human on the planet, having sacked up more than $65 billion (£45.3 billion) in personal wealth and topping Bill Gates as No. 1.


Wal-Mart and the Waltons got to the top the old-fashioned way—by roughing people up. The corporate ethos emanating from the Bentonville headquarters dictates two guiding principles for all managers: extract the very last penny possible from human toil, and squeeze the last dime from every supplier.

more at http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12962


The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line?

more at http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html

It's one thing for wacky columnists to bemoan the Wal-Martization of America. But Wal-Mart cannot let stand a salvo from the mainstream business press. My suspicion is that Wal-Mart will do everything possible to discredit the authors, in a campaign that will make the White House's assault on Richard Clarke look mild by comparison.

more at http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10226

Boycott Wal-Mart

Why you should wipe that smiling yellow face off your shopping list.

more at http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2002-05-08/news.html

Wal Mart is Evil T-Shirts here: http://www.cafeshops.com/yeayaright/72513

Wal Mart corporate censorship:
R.O.C. CALLS FOR A NATIONAL BOYCOTT OF THE EVIL WAL-MART EMPIRE

The following article excerpt regarding the Wal-Mart chain is from our friends at Rock and Rap Confidential:

"EVIL EMPIRE.... "Wal-Mart's CD Standards Are Changing Pop Music," Neil Strauss's excellent piece in the November 12 New York Times, details how the bully-boy Arkansas-based retailer throws its weight around. Wal-Mart's explicit censorship policy bans all music carrying a warning label along with, for example, all Beavis and Butthead merchandise (including the new soundtrack album). With its 2,300 stores, which last year sold 52 million CDs, Wal-Mart is the biggest music retailer in the country and that fact alone is the biggest impetus toward record company and artist self-censorship.

"Because of Wal-Mart's clout," Strauss writes, "record labels and bands will design different covers and booklets, omit songs from their albums, electronically mask objectionable words and even change lyrics in order to gain a place on Wal-Mart's shelves."

more at: http://www.theroc.org/boycotts/walmart.htm

and that's just a small taste of the abuse of power that is Wal Mart.

You realize, of course, that now they will be calling for you to leave the Democratic Party and join the "Hair Club for Growth" or something like that....

Gotta stop there later, too. I need anti-BO and another "Simplefreedom" card to fill up my cellie...:7

I'm helping all those people keep their low-pay part-time jobs when they could be getting shot at in Bagdhad...<that part was the sarcasm part>

:)

to buy some shit. :shrug:

I personally would never set foot in that store, and I have my reasons. But this is America, and you have the freedom to shop wherever you want...

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It's the only store near enough for her to get to because my evil witch aunt won't take her very far. She's on a fixed income. Heck, sometimes I even drive her there. Shopping at WalMart does not a freeper make. Being self righteous, blind and stupid does. I think you may want to think about that. :hi:

I was polite, but oh well.....

:shrug:

You might consider going to a local grocery and then a locally owned video store next time. That way you are supporting your local economy and not a heartless corporation that buys goods made in China, exploits their workers, and discriminates against women.

It was when I first came to DU I posted something
about going to Blockbuster .

I was quickly informed of certain practices by
Blockbuster , and have not stepped into a blockbuster
since .

I also learned about Wal Mart here and now no longer shop
there .

My best
proud patriot

not realize that Sam's Club was one in the same with Walmart and gladly shopped there...

I'm a Costco member now...

:hi:

I wanted to rent the 25th Hour, cause i heard it was a good movie, but it wasn't to be found there. I assumed it hadn't come out yet so i asked the clerk when it was coming out. She then informed me that they don't carry it, and weren't going to. I then went on the website and found they don't carry any of Spike Lee's movies...

Also I think one of the reasons they didn't carry it is because in the movie there's a reference to the EPA lie about the air quality at the world trade center.

As if Wal Mart wasn't bad enough, you actually parted with money for that stinker?

Flame for giving his money for that POS film and thus saying to Paramount, "We really like terrible fecal matter like this - please serve us some more watered down crappy Trek that could just as well be a Kevin Costner, for the sake of God in a gold toilet rolling around in his own vomit already."

Only place that sells my fish tank filter cartridges.

I live in the bible belt. To say I and my husband are out numbered ten to one is no exaggeration . Here in fly over country you don't have allot of choice for your shopping.

If you want to hurt Wally World, just do your Christmas shopping somewhere else. That's where retailers make the majority of the income for the year. Organize a Christmas boycott and WW will feel it.