I created this forum to expose the disgusting acts and most frightening and
biggest corporations of them all, Wal-Mart.
Here is my favorite treat of the night. Everyone, join in on the fun! http://texassportfishing.com/editorial2.htm
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Ironboots
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posted on 12/6/2003 at 09:48 PM
Wow... how many anti-christ themed forums do we have?
Anyway, that's just dark and sinister... Taking out insurance on them? I
think that recruitment of retired folks -was- part of a ploy...
Too bad you can't just declare yourself 'ridding the world of evil' with a
two-handed sword and bust up Walmart like they do in videogames...
'cause that's what I'm feeling like doing right now... damn my
conscience...
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posted on 12/6/2003 at 10:39 PM
Trust me, this is the top of a mountain in the evils of Wal-Mart. It gets
much worse, this was just the sample.
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Dense
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posted on 13/6/2003 at 12:16 AM
Here is some thing else that will piss you off. What will they get off
with?
A slap on the hand? Most likely
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posted on 13/6/2003 at 01:00 AM
Hmmm...I wonder if the yellow crosses that most of the workers in the local
store in the next town were given to them by Wal-Mart or a collective group
decision.
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Why oh why am I NOT suprised by this at all?
I mean, don't get me wrong, if it wasn't illegal it would be ingenious.
Still sick and wrong, but well...genious.
I hate walmart, I have always hated walmart, and I always will hate
walmart. It's impossible to find anything, it's impossible to find anyone
to HELP you find anything, it's usually full of idiots with a zillion idiot
kids, and I am thinking of suing for false advertising about those old
people. I have been to TWO walmarts in my life, and those old fuckers DO
NOT greet you with a sunshine smile, DON'T dance in the isles, DON'T help
you with shit, and ARE NOT CUTE, QUAINT, POLITE or FRIENDLY.
Well then again I wouldn't be either if I found out the company I was
suplimenting my income on had a life insurance policy on my head and a
pending hit on me should the stocks take a dive, BUT STILL....
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Well first off they're (the elderly *greeters*) mostly working simply to
supliment their income or to have something to do, usually no more than 10
or 20 hrs a week, and all that they are required to do is stand (or sit, as
is often the case) in an entrance area and say "hello" to people. That's
all fine and good, mind you, but minimum wage is substantially higher than
it was even two years ago, and honestly, it's not friggin bad to start,
especially if you're only a greeter working part time. (remembers being in
a management position 5 years ago and getting paid a whoppin $5.18, and min
wage was $4.95) In almost any company you have to work a MINIMUM of 20-25
hrs a week to qualify for benifits, and that's IF they offer benifits to
non management employees. Chances are that these people already HAVE
health care, but are only working for a little extra pocket cash and
something to do.
ANYWAYS...sorry to get off tangent there was some brat I had to listen to
on my lunch break pissing himself over how wrong it is to get paid $7.05
(wa state min wage) for an entry level retail position where he is required
to fold t shirts and greet people. My heart bleeds for him. Fucker (see
example of why he should shut his pussy mouth first paragraph entailing my
wages as a MANAGER five years ago).
It's just plain and simple, walmart and it's cohorts are the one true evil
on this planet. Saddam WHO? George WHO? SOmeone aught to shave the
Walmart CEO's head and look for the little 666 behind his ear, I swear.
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Mara
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posted on 13/6/2003 at 05:41 PM
*COVERS HER EARS CLOSES HER EYES* super wal-mart is wonderful place
super wal-mart is good
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Mara
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posted on 13/6/2003 at 05:41 PM
*COVERS HER EARS CLOSES HER EYES* super wal-mart is wonderful place
super wal-mart is good super wal-mart is wonderful place
super wal-mart is good super wal-mart is wonderful place
super wal-mart is good super wal-mart is wonderful place
super wal-mart is good super wal-mart is wonderful place
super wal-mart is good super wal-mart is wonderful place
super wal-mart is good
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posted on 13/6/2003 at 05:50 PM
Where's the reincarnation of Teddy Roosevelt when you need him to bust up
big business? And a few more national parks couldn't hurt, either...
Mara, be quiet! This is for your own good!
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posted on 13/6/2003 at 09:05 PM
-=gets out the scotch tape, the cattle prod and rubber gloves=- Yes, Mara.
For your own good.
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posted on 14/6/2003 at 07:31 AM
I am a huge, fucking hypocrite.
I shop at WalMart. While I read these posts and links, and am justly
horrified by the facts I find, I still plan to shop at WalMart.
Because, no matter how horrible their policies, WalMart sells the cheapest
diapers, and cheapest just about anything else I can find around here.
They have the biggest selection, and they're located very conveniently for
me with my busy schedule.
If I had the choice, (in other words, if I had the money), I would shop
elsewhere. I would far rather buy an entertainment center made of real
wood instead of laminated particle board, made by local craftsmen, and pay
a fair price. But I can't.
I look around my apartment and see other things besides the entertainment
center that came from WalMart - the corkboard, the whiteboard, the lamp,
the pillar candles, the phone, the computer desk, the PlayStation, the
baby's high chair, and if I opened the cupboards and closets, I would find
even more stuff.
Perhaps this is part of WalMart's scheme - pay shit, so people have shit to
spend. Then they'll have to shop at WalMart because that's all they can
afford. All the companies in the area follow WalMart's pay example. So
all their employees have to shop at WalMart, too. So WalMart gets more
money from more sales, and retains more by paying their employees less. So
they have the funds to open a new WalMart in another area. So the cycle
starts all over again.
WalMart has its chains around poor America, and I am indignant, the more so
because they have their chains around me as well!
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posted on 14/6/2003 at 09:30 AM
Quaint.
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Sticupus
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posted on 14/6/2003 at 01:57 PM
http://www.rotten.com/library/crime/corporate/wal-mart/
Everything from clothes, to sports gear, to tires, and pets can be bought
at Wal-Mart at very cheap prices. They don't have to necessarily offer a
superior product to their competitors, just a cheaper, more convenient one.
In doing this, small business suffer or blink out. The local boutique,
sports supply store, the mechanic, and pet store all go out of business
because they just can’t offer a better price and lose business in the
glamour and convenience of a super Wal-Mart. What happens to those workers
then? They go get a job at Wal-Mart. Minimum wage unless you work there for
20+years, and no health benefits. Now this wouldn’t be that devastating to
large cities, because the amount of people in the area actually shelter the
impact of Wal-Mart due to supply and demand, and the population. People can
afford to shop else where too. But there are several small country towns
that have nothing but a Wal-Mart. No other businesses exist in these
places. Everyone works there and buys there. Full dependency.
Wal-Mart is definitely a problem. The way the corporation behaves is hard
to manage. It first off sells everything. This is a gigantic problem-
reasons being is that other companies cannot survive due to competition.
And another thing due to that problem is that it isn’t a true monopoly,
thus the government cannot intervene without making new laws. If it only
sold just tires, or just sporting goods, and had its same success, the
government would slap regulation on it fast. As of right now, there is
little anyone can do to control Wal-Mart or regulate it, or tame its
expansion. Imagine if there was no other place to buy things or work at
other than Wal-Mart. It’s happening in some small towns today. That’s a
frightening idea.
It gets worse. Wal-Mart is a very conservative corporation. It censors all
CDs in its music section. It does not sell CDs with offensive language.
Even if you are an adult, and you want to listen to Lil’ Kim’s Hardcore
album, it is either not there, or watered down and censored. Shouldn’t you
have the right to buy a CD with offensive language if you want to? Wal-Mart
doesn’t think so. Of course you can just take your business somewhere else-
unless you live in one of those unfortunate small towns who’s record store
went out of business. Sure people can always go online and find their CDs,
but in the name of convenience they might just buckle down and go to
Wal-Mart. That’s your rights down the tube.
Second in the “It gets worse list” Wal-Mart is very, how shall we say-
‘Anti- Female‘. If you have a prescription for birth control or RU486, and
it’s you goddamned right to purchase it via Roe v. Wade- you should keep in
mind that Wal-Mart refuses to hold or sell certain contraceptive drugs at
its pharmacy. So if you live in that small country town, you either have to
get in you car and go somewhere else (if you can afford the gas money on
your barely 18k a year salary), or shut up and have the kid like women are
'supposed' to. What gives a corporation the right to regulate people like
this?
Also, their staff is 75% women, but men hold 66% of the high ranking
positions. And Last time I checked there were no female district
managers.
Wal-Mart could set a national trend for low wages (18k, and if you want
health care it‘s $3,000, plus a deductible- therefore you cannot afford
it), dependency on it’s business, a undereducated low training work force
may dominate the new employment trend, and it can regulate your activity
through censorship and refusing to give out contraceptives because the CEOs
are pro-life, and put women back a century. Not to mention they may give
you a decent pay raise after working there for decades, but remember, they
might have an insurance policy on your head as to make profit from your
death.
The bush administration is not one to kindly regulate such brewing monsters
of the corporate world. And with the growing governmental power of
corporations, any legislation or legal action against them could not be
around for a long time; perhaps after people suffer enough to effect votes.
What’s the current solution? Fucking Boycott.
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posted on 14/6/2003 at 02:18 PM
"Perhaps this is part of WalMart's scheme - pay shit, so people have shit
to spend. Then they'll have to shop at WalMart because that's all they can
afford. All the companies in the area follow WalMart's pay example. So all
their employees have to shop at WalMart, too. So WalMart gets more money
from more sales, and retains more by paying their employees less. So they
have the funds to open a new WalMart in another area. So the cycle starts
all over again."
Go Schizo! Exactly the idea the have in mind.
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posted on 14/6/2003 at 03:39 PM
I only just discovered that we have Walmarts here in England, but they are
known as Asda. Do Americans also have to put up with that creepy giant
yellow face?
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Sticupus
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posted on 14/6/2003 at 06:20 PM
Oh yes. The Yellow Face of Death.
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posted on 14/6/2003 at 08:04 PM
I have nightmares of It dressed up as Robin Hood, a cowboy, and other
eccentric costumes...
oh wait, that's real life... *is scared*
I agree with Stic. We should boycott. Only trouble is getting enough
numbers convinced. A lot of people won't want to pay higher prices at the
competitor's store, even though its worth it.
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Dense
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posted on 19/6/2003 at 12:16 AM
The problem with a wal-mart boycot is that red necks primarly shop at
wal-mart. Try convenceing a red neck that he sould not shop at wal-mart.
You will run away screaming. I am not man enough for that. I am not saying
every one that shops at wal-mart is a red neck. But if you remove them from
wal-marts consumers you have hit there bank account hard.
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