Did you alert the authorities? or were these nice looking people taking a field trip?
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Most of the super walmarts I have been in have been dirty, trashy, stuff all over, cardboard boxes. I try not to go to Walmart just because I feel like I am in an open market in Mexico.
Once in a while they have a good orange or two, they sell fishing licenses, windshield washer fluid and deoderant...thats about it.
Have you seen the new upscale ones? They built the very first one here in Highland Village, Tx. They are super nice and clean.
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Hate it! Our town already has two supercenters, and I was so proud when we fought back and rejected a third one.
I never go there unless it's absolutely unavoidable. I shop at Target and Kroger which shows that I'm not necessarily looking out for Mom&Pops, but I just hate the atmosphere in Wal-Mart. When I leave Target or Kroger I'm happy and pleased with my shopping experience, but when I leave Wal-Mart I usually want to shoot someone.
I think I did a blog post about Wal-Mart last December sometime, but I can't access blogger at work, so I can't put up a link.
ETA: StMark, could you PLEASE fix your typo in this thread title? It's driving me batty.
I've read and heard stuff about how we shouldn't shop at Wal-Mart with various reasons why....
Here's some of the reasons I've heard about why I should not shop at Wal-Mart:
- they treat employees poorly
- they are responsible for poor working conditions and child labor/sweat shops in 3rd world and developing countries
- they have destroyed American towns and commerce (mom-n-pop shops)
- they represent everything that is ugly about America
What are your thoughts?
Do you shop at Wal mart??
Is there anything that would stop you from shopping there ?
my wife does shop in our local Walmarts. I shop there for camping supplies and occassionally for oil change or light automotive supplies.
I can not find agreement with any of the listed concerns. Walmart is one of the only 'under 12.00/hr' employers that have a benefits package and a real track for vertical movement from the employee ranks.
the one point I am greived by relates to: - they are responsible for poor working conditions and child labor/sweat shops in 3rd world and developing countries
BY NO MEANS are they RESPONSIBLE, but they are a SIGNIFICANT ENABLER of the autrocities that the Chinese central government extorts from their weakest citizens. If our middle-class moms could be fully aware of the circumstances surrounding the workers who produce the products they consume, I think more of the economic boom funding the Chinese empire's expansion, would reach the families that do the work.
Is Walmart to blame for where they buy their merchandise? I do not think so. They have built an entire corporate mantra on "buy for less". I believe the corpporate buyers do have vast, untapped influence, but unitl the American conventional wisdom links the environment of the producers with the purchaser's decision-making, why would Walmart stir up contention?
It would be a foolish mode for a 'for-profit' corporation to find itself in....as moral crusaders where their own customers are fully disengaged.
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Re: Your Opinioin on Wal Mart Please
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Now, that's not nice.....I've seen some nice looking people in Walmart.
One of my brother's in law supposedly said that only poor fat people shop at WalMart. I ain't poor nor am I fat but I do shop there on occasion but not one of my favorites.
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Re: Your Opinioin on Wal Mart Please
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Originally Posted by StMark
I've read and heard stuff about how we shouldn't shop at Wal-Mart with various reasons why....
Here's some of the reasons I've heard about why I should not shop at Wal-Mart:
- they treat employees poorly
- they are responsible for poor working conditions and child labor/sweat shops in 3rd world and developing countries
- they have destroyed American towns and commerce (mom-n-pop shops)
- they represent everything that is ugly about America
What are your thoughts?
Do you shop at Wal mart??
Is there anything that would stop you from shopping there ?
Mark, some of your posts are very thought provoking and others are just down right provoking!!
I've read and heard stuff about how we shouldn't shop at Wal-Mart with various reasons why....
Here's some of the reasons I've heard about why I should not shop at Wal-Mart:
- they treat employees poorly
- they are responsible for poor working conditions and child labor/sweat shops in 3rd world and developing countries
- they have destroyed American towns and commerce (mom-n-pop shops)
- they represent everything that is ugly about America
What are your thoughts?
Do you shop at Wal mart??
Is there anything that would stop you from shopping there ?
After my father died when I was 13 and my mom was 42 she went back to night school and got her GED. Later she went on to college and earned her Bachelors degree.
However she lived in a small Louisiana town without many job opportunties. She took a job at Wal Mart and absolutely loved it. She made many friends in the co-workers there and saw many people in the community she knew as they shopped.
Wal Mart was one of the few employers in that small town to offer comprehensive benefits. Great health care and an optional long term disability insurance package for just $15 per month which thankfully she took.
When my mom was about 59 she suffered a stroke while visiting me. Her Wal Mart health insurance was fabulous and took care of the finest care and rehab with no questions asked.
That long term disability insurance plan they had offered for just fifteen bucks a month also paid my mom what she would have earned working for the next six years until she was 65 and eligible for her Social Security retirement.
Contrast that with a few years later when her healthcare was medicare that she supplemented by signing up for an HMO. When she had a major stroke that left her almost completely paralyzed, unable to speak, and tube fed, this rotton HMO called the hospital multiple times a day trying to kick her out to a nursing home while they were still trying to get her stable.
Finally the HMO rep actually came to the hospital herself to check it out and after seeing my mom at least apologized to me for trying to say she was ready to go to a nursing home. It turned out right after the stroke my mom had gall stones and could not longer speak to communicate what was wrong. She had to have emergency gall bladder surgery. Oh what I would have given for her to have stlil been on that great Wal Mart health inusrance she had when she had her first stroke.
I've read and heard stuff about how we shouldn't shop at Wal-Mart with various reasons why....
Here's some of the reasons I've heard about why I should not shop at Wal-Mart:
- they treat employees poorly
- they are responsible for poor working conditions and child labor/sweat shops in 3rd world and developing countries
- they have destroyed American towns and commerce (mom-n-pop shops)
- they represent everything that is ugly about America
What are your thoughts?
Do you shop at Wal mart??
Is there anything that would stop you from shopping there ?
I like Walmart, sometimes I don't like the crowds, or the fact that in some English is rarely spoken.
But without Walmart there wouldnt be a strong middle class they have single handedly helped fuel the middle class in the US.
They keep other retailers honest, without a Walmart presence, HEB, Safeway, Kroger, Piggly Wiggly, whatever other corporate run Grocerer would raise prices 20% or more.
Yes they get a bad rap, but primarily from unions and their supporters.
Go WALMART!!!
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