Walmart in general

If you really wanna destroy it, don't shop there!

 

I went in there one time and they had all these lil horses stacked on top of each other. I was joking around with my mom about they looked like they were havin sex and that was wrong cause lil kids were seeing that. On the way out they were unstacking em. I thought it was so funny...

 

The wal mart in my town is nasty. I have been in the meat dept. and the meat was brown. The bathrooms are never cleaned there are nose goblins and feces painted on the walls, the aisles are never cleaned especially in the food section there is dried pop and contents of boxed food on the floor. I never shop there some of my friends do though and i have tried convincing them not too. They say that they can save more money if they do shop there and totally diregard waht i have told them about wal-mart. I HATE WAL MART!!!!

 

i avoid wal mart. i hate wal mart. i have friends who work in wal mart and are treated like crap... and get paid crap on top of it... no benefits, no unions.

and this is another reason i won't shop at wal mart:

(from here: http://www.epcglobalcanada.org/news/jan19_2004.htm)

if i need something i will find it another store. i prefer to spend a few extra cents on something from a mom and pop store in town than get it at a big box store.

i'm really tired of going to new places and feeling like i haven't seen anything new... every town has a wal mart, bigger towns have wal marts, home depots, micheal's, eb games, winners... the small family owned businesses are becoming less and less able to support themselves and are dying out. i don't want to support that.

-z

 

That's because Wal*Mart is taking over the world!!
In my town of about 75,000 people, we have 3 wal*marts and another one is being built right now. And in the town that is 15 minutes away, there is one, too. And we also have a Sam's Club that is wal*mart in bulk. They are taking over and killing local businesses.

Nowadays you can go into wal*mart and get your nails done, a haircut, and some crappy studio poitraits all in the same stop. It's convenient, but is it worth the aggrovation?!? I hate to admit that I shop there, too. They just have EVERYTHING!

 

God damn it !!!
Wal-mart is coming to India also !!!!

Walmart ceo had recently come to India to and met our prime minister to pressurise him to open Indian markets to FDI(foreign direct investment) into retail sector

I really hope our markets are not opened up for the wal marts
Walmart opening in India will only be the beginging of a big catastrophe

 

Wal Mart is a big catastrophe anywhere (ask all the mom 'n pop businesses in the US that have gone bankrupt because of them). I hope it doesn't happen in India. If it does, all you can do is boycott them, and if enough people do, their business will fail, remember "think globally, act locally" (I know it's a cliche, but I think it's appropriate in this case). A friend of mine gave me a bumper sticker a while back:

BOYCOTT WAL MART

 

dude walmart is the shit it's like taking a ride to white castle. I do take like road trips like 2 blocks down the street from where I live just to go to walmart and be excited. Also one true fact about walmart is they do have alot cheap stuff. Like one time I went their just for the hell of it and found soda their for 3 liters for only 2.50 now that GREAT!!!! I'm not lieing either. Great thread man lol. Later

 

you're joking right? The last time I went there I hosed them out of some rainpants that were probably made with slave labor. i wish i didn't even screw over walmart, theres got to be double-karma for that. if they didn't have absolutely everything wrong with them that is wrong with mega-corps, there could be some tolerance.

 

Dude I am not some starving third world kid that you see in WHO ads
to believe that shit you are quoting

I have a brain which I use effieciently and know more about wal-mart
than most americans do
I know that
Sam walton started it some decades ago
who later wrote a book called made in america
(How funny when everything sold at wal-mart is now made in china )
About how they don't allow their workers to unionize
how they cut costs by squeezing their suppliers who in turn tighten the
screws on workers
etcetc

 

Yeah, cheap to us consumers, that's the whole problem, but what about the other "hidden" costs like screwing over entire communities, their workers, and promoting sweatshops in third world countries? It's that kinda short-term-instant-gratification thinking that's wrong with this country, I dunno how much longer I can stand to live here if "mainstream" America doesn't change their views and get their act together...

...'course you might be screwing with us just to get a reaction, I hope that's the case...

...if not, you might wanna think real hard about what you believe in!

The truth of the matter is Wal Mart is about as UN-American as it gets! If everything we buy at Wal Mart is manufactured elsewhere, how are we gonna sustain our posture as a first world country when we don't have a manufacturing base of our own? We can't!

 

I never shop at Walmart but I do shop at Target which I feel almost equaly as bad about at this point. Also today I was at Sams club and realized they are a part of Walmart which didn't make me happy eather.

heres a lil something I read the otehr day about walmart it prety much sums up why I havent shopped there in years...

WAL-MART IS NOW THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CORPORATION, WITH MORE THAN ONE MILLION EMPLOYEES (THREE TIMES MORE THAN GENERAL MOTORS),THE AVERAGE WALMART EMPLOYEE MAKES ONLY $15,000 A YEAR FOR FULL TIME WORK. AND Most are held to part-time work. Then there's China. wal mart moved its worldwide purchasing headquarters to China in 1998. Today, IT IS THE LARGEST IMPORTER OF CHINESE MADE PRODUCTS IN THE WORLD, BUYING $10 BILLION WORTH OF MERCHANDISE FROM CHINESE FACTORIES A YEAR. The bottom-feeding labor policy of this one corporation is actually lowering standards in China, Even though China's minimum wage is 31 cents an hour--not even a living wage--these production workers are paid 13 cents an hour. They also must pay for their own medical treatment and are fired if they are too ill to work. The work is literally sickening, since there's no health and safety enforcement and these factories employ mostly young women and teenage girls. With its dominance over its own 1.2 million workers and 65,000 suppliers this one company is the world's most powerful private force for lowering labor standards for middle class workers everywhere. Using its sheer size, market clout, access to capital, and massive advertising budget, It hits a town or city neighborhood like a retailing neutron bomb, sucking out the economic vitality and all of the local character. By slashing its retail prices way below cost when it enters a community, Wal-Mart can crush our groceries, pharmacies, hardware stores, and other retailers, then raise its prices once it has monopoly control over the market. this giant eliminates three decent jobs for every two Wal-Mart jobs that it creates--and a store full of part-time, poorly paid employees hardly builds the family wealth necessary to sustain a community's middle-class living standard. Instead of wal-mart's profits staying in town to be reinvested locally, the money is either to be used as capital for conquering yet another town or simply to be stashed in the family vaults (by the way FIVE OF THE TEN RICHEST PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE WALTONS). Wal-Mart's radical remaking of our labor standards and our local economies is occurring mostly without our knowledge or consent. WHY SHOULD WE ACCEPT THIS?
paraphrased by Kevin Stuart
original article B Y J I M H I G H T O W E R

 

Nice...

...On the bright side, at least a few folks are benefitting greatly from the Wal Mart "legacy": The Waltons and the Corporate Execs whose job it is to make everyone who works for them miserable. Too bad they represent an infinitesimal percentage of the population who's lives are affected (ruined) by these scumbags.

On a different note, Jim Hightower's got some good stuff to say, check out www.jimhightower.com, and the kicker is he's from Dubya's home state of Texas.

 

You gotta love the $10 DVD rack at Wal-Mart. I do anyway.

 

I couldnt have put it any better.

 

The only grocery store other than walmart is closing on the 19th. I'll be carpooling to the closest grocery store (a whole foods store) over the state lines 45 min. away once a week. If I don't buy the groceries then; we will do without. I don't care for walmart and realize I vote with every dollar I spend.