Walmart now selling LSD laced meat.

I shop at Walmart quite often. The only time I can go shopping is after derby practice, and they're the only place open that late.

 

I know a lot of people who shop for a week's worth on a saturday morning or at an other specifc time of the week. I don't think you really have to shop late at night or at walmart for other reasons than convenience or a tempting quantity/quality equation.

 

and after you have a family to feed and support, you also may have some changes in your attitudes and practices as well.

 

My weekends are all taken up with family and derby. I *could*go during the day, but I'm not dragging a bunch of kids with me.

 

I try to be the change I like to see in the world... so no family for me and certainly not giving in to any commercial temptations!
If you hate that store as much as the average person (claims) on here (I expect not since you wouldn't be such a hypocrite I'm sure ) there really isn't a good excuse for being a customer there.

 

Right on, Asmo! :2thumbsup: I tried to rep you but couldn't.

 

Nah, I don't hate it. Therefore I have no moral convictions for shopping there.

 

That makes it easy. If you don't see a problem with them then you're not part of any problem at all either :2thumbsup: In fact, there is no problem about Walmart at all! Carry on, it's all good :daisy:

 

"Wal-Mart's poverty wages force employees to rely on $2.66 billion in government help every year, or about $420,000 per store. In state after state, Wal-Mart employees are the top recipients of Medicaid. As many as 80 percent of workers in Wal-Mart stores use food stamps."

By supporting Walmart you are paying for much more than your groceries.

 

Average products for great prices, what more do you want!

Never go to both a bakery and a butcher on the same day (AINT NOBODY GOT TIME FO DAT! ), they both can go get lost anyway. I'm off to the supermarket!

 

Yup, I thought like that when I was in my early 20's as well.
Things and people change.

I don't hate anything as much as anyone here, except for willful ignorance and ludicrous accusations with little supporting evidence, but I think that is already apparent.

 

So what? I'm 30. I've changed too. It doesn't have to be for the worse you know.
It's too bad once they get a firm foot on the ground it goes at the cost of every small business in town. And that when it is so far people find excuses to say well, the other stores are gone so I don't really have a good choice... Or, well there are some other stores indeed but I have 3 kids now (well I don't want to be totally unreasonable and I can understand if you take care of more people and have just enough money you go there, but really, there are more choices and you are supporting one of the worse options by shopping there).

 

why use a family as a cop out for curbing your ideals? my friend has a family and they don't make much money, but they don't shop at wal mart.

 

In America we have what is known as a "minimum wage".
That is the least an employer can pay an employee. It is set by the federal government and NOT by individual corporations.

If you or a Walmart employee has a problem with that, take it up with the federal labor board or whomever, Walmart and others are simply following the law.

In retail payroll is the biggest controllable expense. You have little control over the cost you pay for goods, especially food, you have little control concerning the overhead costs of operating a store, and no wiggle room when it come to taxes. Therefore one of the only options left to a business owner regardless of size or number of stores to counter poor sales is to adjust payroll $$$.

When I was in retail management you were allotted a certain number of payroll hours. You had to run the store within the constraints of those payroll hours.
Then add in employees with seniority or union contracts who have to work a minimum amount of hours and juggle in your part timers plus management, it's a fucking bitch.

So is your answer is to eliminate Walmart and then put all those people out of work so they then earn $0.00 ??


Don't get me wrong, I abhor such practices with employees and it's the major reason I got out of retail completely, even though I could easily be pulling in over $100K a year by now, but I'm not naive about what it is like on the other side of the cash register.

 

not a cop-out, just the way it is.

 

There are other stores that you can get things just as cheap that are higher quality than walmart.

I do try to save money when I shop being that we have one income, one kid here and one on the way... but I never shop at walmart. If I need to go to a similar store like that I can get everything I need just as cheap but better at target. And I can get produce that's local and organic for cheaper than walmart prices at local farmer's markets.

 

They can easily pay their employees better, keep prices down and give a good profit to their investors...


But they won't

 

How do you know all this?

Are you on the board of directors or something?

My point is everybody throws all these accusations around and the only real consistent reason I find here is because it is the "hip forums" thing to do.

So once again Nox is the outcast because I refuse to blindly jump on the anti-Walmart bandwagon.

*sigh*

 

When it all comes down to it, I have a selfish reason to not shop at walmart (in addition to everything else).... The products that they sell suck.

 

Walmart has eliminated many smaller business which used to sell the same goods and collectively hired just as many and if not more people than the corporate giant. Walmart comes to town, and wipes out smaller businesses who just can't compete. Those business close and the displaced workers have to get a new job...guess where? Without Walmart, these other business would have an opportunity to exist again, while keeping money within the local economy. How you spend your money matters, your dollar is the strongest voice that you have.

I understand your complaints about retail culture. There are companies which pay their employees a decent, living wage and manage to make a sizable profit. Think Costco and Trader Joe's.