Wal-Mart

[jiacinto]

Was it better before Sam Walton died?

[bluestateguy]

1. That's what I hear

I hear it was a more ethical, less tyrannical company.

I have not set foot in a Wal-Mart in almost a year. They, along with the RIAA are on my boycott list.

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[JanMichael]

2. From what I've read yes.

But now is an entirely different story. I'd tell you what I think of them but I'm trying to lay off of the expletives tonight:-)

[bunnyhop]

3. I hate waldo but i go there all the time

You just can't beat the prices. I hate them cause they cheated me out of $30 once but i got even and then some.

[BiggJawn]

4. Yeah, it was better when Sam was alive.

I heard he actually CARED for his employees. some quaint notion about the hired help making that big house, private jet and the never-ending golf vacation possible. I recall the selection was better, and they weren't popping up in every quadrant of every town like a frickin' Mikey Dee...

his kids (or whoever got the business) are just archetypical yuppie scum.

[Chicagonian]

5. Liberals who shop at Walmart-

Have definitely put a price tag on their principles.

[SharonAnn]

6. I agree. Some of my local Dem friends still don't get it, though.

How can we support the corporation that screws its workers?

[Chicagonian]

7. I've NEVER shopped at a Walmart-

And not just because there's not a single Walmart within the Chicago city limits.
There's always a new reason to love this city!

[Octafish]

9. They screw all American workers, actually.

American flags cover Wal-Mart wall-to-wall. Unfortunately, the stuff they sell they buy from wherever it's cheapest to make. Once it was Japan, then Mexico, now it's Communist China, where people are paid pennies an hour. Meanwhile, all the Americans (and Mexicans and Japanese) who once worked in factories making the stuff department stores like Wal-Mart sells are out of work. Not only are these good paying manufacturing jobs gone, but the nation's ability to make the THINGS it needs has disappeared, as well.

[GregW]

11. I shop there all the time

Bite me.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

15. So, then

You really don't give a fuck how they treat their workers.

You're my new hero, o prosaic one.

[pstokely]

12. some have no other choices within 100 miles

who shops at Wal Mart if there's a Kmart or Target nearby?

[jiacinto]

13. I wouldn't go that far

In some areas that is the only store nearby. In other cases that is all people can afford. So I wouldn't be making all encompassing denounciations either.

[WhyMe]

8. Indeed it was

Small stores in small towns selling stuff that really was "Made in the USA," he wasn't trying to drive other stores out of business....treated employees like people-

His kids are pathetic, money grubbing, little capitalist pigs.

[pstokely]

10. his goal was to be bigger than Kmart

nt

[Semi_subversive]

14. Sam was a guy

who drove his pickem-up truck to work with a sack lunch, from what I remember. I guess that teaches us to leave it all to charity instead of our spoiled-ass, greedy children.