WalMart MUST DIE

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Did you Know Wal-Mart has also lulled shoppers into ignoring the difference between the price of something and the cost. Its unending focus on price underscores something that Americans are only starting to realize about globalization: Ever-cheaper prices have consequences. Says Steve Dobbins, president of thread maker Carolina Mills: "We want clean air, clear water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world--yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions."

 

A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar of pickles is a display of abundance and excess; it is entrancing, and also vaguely unsettling. This is the product that Wal-Mart fell in love with: Vlasic's gallon jar of pickles.

Wal-Mart priced it at $2.97--a year's supply of pickles for less than $3! "They were using it as a 'statement' item," says Pat Hunn, who calls himself the "mad scientist" of Vlasic's gallon jar. "Wal-Mart was putting it before consumers, saying, This represents what Wal-Mart's about. You can buy a stinkin' gallon of pickles for $2.97. And it's the nation's number-one brand."

 

Walmart it getting ready to set up shop in my little suburb. We shall see how it fares against Super K and Tagert. I find it interesting that the paper is chocked full of people caught stealing from the Super K here, but theft hardly happens at the Target across the street. They have the same security system and the prices are around the same.

 

i'm surprised no one has mentioned that over 70 percent of walmart employees (so i think thats everyone not in management...) can't qualify for health insurance. walmart makes it this way so they can ...hmm, how do they they say- roll back prices.

i understand that its a good deal for customers to get things so cheaply, but go somewhere else, please. i mean shop at thrift stores and liquidation stores and mom and pop shops and dollar stores and the internet. don't support such a horrible corporation.

 

Shop AMway

 

wrong post. haha.

 

but i love their chips, they're salty and fuller flavour than zellers.

 

I've heard so many Walmart employees tell me mixed things about what goes on internally so I don't really have an opinion to express there, but as far as being a consumer goes, I think their stores are awful too. I realize that in order to offer low cost items they cut corners or whatever to save money like having 10 cashiers to operate on an entire store during Christmas. I shop there because it's cheap. I think I go once a month and since that's our grocery store too, typically we run out of food after two weeks and it takes another two weeks before we finally give in and go back. Every time we go we are in the line where someting either didn't ring up right and it takes 20 minutes for a price check, or someone's gift card won't work or credit card won't scan and it takes 6 or more tries and 5 minutes to get it figured out.

Then there's the fact that in order to not get your car doors mutilated by other car doors or shopping carts you have to park a mile away which at my store is uphill. After trying to buy a month's worth of groceries so we don't have to ever come back it's great to push a full cart uphill to your car and struggle to keep it there while you put everything inside. After getting everything out you realize the one and only cart corral is on the other end of the lot and it takes forever to get there and back to your car. It's like this constant feeling from the time you get there to the time you leave that you are never going to get finished and get home. I think, "what could be worse"...and I already know the answer...the next visit.

 

the only problem i have with walmarts are the arrogant little fuckers that work there. some workers are great, but there are the 'high and mighty i'm better than you' crap.

 

the walmart super center in my town is HHHHHHUUUUGGGEE i feel like every time i go from one end of the store to the other its like going on a journey. and ive gotta find the magic elf of electronics and on the way i see a cyclops in one of those blue "how may i help you" vests and i must answer his three riddles or ill be banned to housewares. then the elf and i have to navigaate the forest of the clothing department and reach the promised land of the produce area.

 

I like many others have no other choice but to shop at Wal-Mart. It's a shame but nothing can be done except become self effecient which is what I plan to do after I finish my education. I am not going to be a Wal-Mart supporter for the rest of my life. Wal-Mart is evil.

 

become a Unibomber, buying all you needs from walmart. and then blow up walmarts with em.

 

I tend to agree. It is so hard trying not to shop at walmart though. I try pretty hard and do pretty well but they are eliminating so much of their competition. Their prices are so cheap ( yes I know they are not REALLY cheap) esp with kids it is HARD. Esp when you know " ok. I have my 3 kids with me, I can do one stop AND it will be cheaper on my POCKETBOOK or I can drag them to 4 different stores." I can see why it does so well. I really have had to make a concentrated effort to do the work and not shop there. This is in North NJ. I have wall to wall malls AND NYC 20 minutes away. it still calls. They MUST be stopped!

 

FUNNY!!! and your comments are well put. I am STILL LAUGHING!!!!

Peace and love

 

You people really need to stop taking everything so seriously i mean its a STORE if you dont like it dont shop there alright alright end of story i mean really some people need the cheaper prices and some people like the cheaper prices so it has a large demand of costumers some want it bigger smaller only groceries more clothes I mean do you think you could satisfi all of america i dont think so i think walmart is doing a pretty good job with satisfing this many people

 

*sigh* how many times do i have to post this?

http://www.sweatshops.org/

my heart sinks everytime i hear someone say "i'm poor i have no choice, nothing can be done."

firstly, the belief that we have no choice is one of the ways the poor are kept poor. we have so many options for lessening our dependence on the consumer mills and leaving inexpensively. we are taught from birth that this is the only way, we have no other options. we are never taught to question culture, examine our lifestyles, priorities, or values. we are taught that doing without is a sacrifice, and that sacrifices are "bad" or unpleasant or a sign of "poverty". we are not taught to embrace our right to choose our own way of living. we are taught that we have no rights. we are taught that we have no choice.

self-sufficency is an ideal to strive for. think of lessening dependency as a process, not a drastic, all-or-nothing, sweeping change and suddenly it is less overwhelming. think of it in terms of living your values. it is a commitment to honor your priorities over time. someday i would love to have a self-sufficient homestead, but for now i can make small changes in my life. for now, choose your battles carefully. for me, one of those changes has been to question the way i shop, and the things i need. it hasn't hurt me, it hasn't been "unaffordable", indeed it has made me richer in more ways than the dollars i have saved.

you do have a choice. there are many things you can do.

simplified living is the easiest. live your values. don't concern yourself with that which is unnecessary or undesirable. my father would always tell me "use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." do you really need to be buying so much? do the things you buy fill a need or truly enrich the quality of your life? do they make you happier, healthier, or safer?

shop second hand. there are politics to thrift shopping, too, unfortunately. if you shop at a salvation army you may be supporting anti-gay or religious discrimination, if you shop at an ABVI/goodwill you may be supporting animal testing. i tend to give my money to the smaller charities first, and of course there are always yard sales, the classifieds, flea markets, ebay...thrift stores are better for finding unique treasures, in addition to re-using resources & not directly contributing to the flaws of consumerism.

make/grow/repair it yourself. the self-sufficient homestead is an ideal, but you still may be able to produce your own clothing, bread, soap, furniture, herbal remedies, cleaning products...what are your talents? i sew, bake bread, make toys for the children, grow a few herbs (well, slowly killing them, anyway) and homeschool, all in a tiny urban apartment. in addition to saving money and lessening dependence on consumer culture, something indescribable but wonderful happens when you become directly involved in the daily necessities of your own life. i guess you could call it Quality.

get rid of your goddamn tv. you'll be more active, and buy less.

while you're at it, ditch the car, too. look within your community. get a share in a CSA and/or a co-op. support the small business down the street. know where your money is going after you spend it. only buy from places you can walk or bike or take a bus to. (i understand not everyone lives in a location where this is practical.) again, something wonderful will happen, that will save you money as well as enriching the quality of your life beyond measure: suddenly you won't need to go out to the mall to get a carseat for your kid, because somebody's daughter has outgrown hers. don't worry about budgeting to pay the babysitter, the neighbor will do it in exchange for home-baked bread. the guy you met at the co-op will be happy to take a look at what's wrong with your computer, and be willing to take all those old books off your hands in exchange. more than just getting things done without money, you are finding yourself a part of a larger community. one hand washes the other.

barter. this goes along with reaching out to your community, but i believe there are also places online where you can barter. this weekend a friend is going to read my cards in exchange for some hemp barefoot sandals. but it doesn't have to be crafts. my dad did a lot of bartering when he had his desktop publishing business. you get the idea.

it does not require huge amounts of money to make these changes in your life. i began making these changes when i was on food stamps, in order to save money. and no, it hasn't made my life harder or taken up too much time. indeed, it's made my life better, and continues to do so. you have so many options. just tackle one at a time. these are just the beginning. please, please don't believe the malicious lie that you have no choices!

 

Buy Wal-Mart - its my only stock!

 

Thank you Kitty, you give me hope for humanity.

 

"Hee hee hee, I hate Wal-Mart", you say. But without them what would you pay for your imported toys for your illigitimate kids and such? Sat there upon your fat asses and dream of a world w/o Wal-mart....................oh oh, prices just doubled! Aint that the shits?
"This year kids we are going to buy from Pennys, Sears, and ToysRUS, so you only get 1/3 of the toys you got last year. BTW, children, being the conscientious objectors we are to Wal-Mart, we are all going to do w/o so we can show them damn Waltons that we do not like rich White people getting richer from our purchases."
So, go get 'em, you 'I hate Wal-mart people'.

 

walmart is fucking evil... if you support walmart you are a fascist.

if you go to walmart you will notice almost everything is made by outsourced companies... probably starving children...

Down with walmart.