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[ShawnPhase]

so apparently they're trying to move their center of ops to flag? and they're being met with a big 'fuck you'? i wonder why...

'in an apparent effort to sway a vote on ratification on an ordinance that would deter it from being built, walmart ran an AD CONTAINING NAZI IMAGES.'

what the fuck is this about? what the fuck are these people doing? have any of you out there heard this? apparently they've reported slumpin sales for some time now, but then they did this. the ad they read was apparently people burning books, and you can see a nazi swastika in the background, and it says 'do you want the government deciding what you read?'

while i dont think any of this entire situation is right, i find this COMPLETELY fucked up. why does walmart need to do anything more beneficial to their company? on the flip side of the coin, does the corporation have free speech, and on the third side of the coin (the correct one) does a company like walmart need to bring a fucking nazi symbol into their commercials?

what the fuck has happened to life as i know it...

[Gaudustophe]

There's sort of the similar thing happening where I'm at now (York, PA). Wal Mart wants to build a supercenter in a residential area, when there's another supercenter about 4 miles down the road. There's a huge groundswell of opposition by unsurprisingly the people who live by it, so it's kind of up in the air.

The fact that they would consider themselves crusaders for free speech is ridiculous. And their comparison of the regulation of their viral empire to the third reich is obscene. Although I have to admit, I don't fully understand the situation (of course not, I live across t he country) what's being censored exactly? The company itself? Does walmart feel its right to proliferate itself compromised? If that's the case, then no rights are being compromised, because Wal Mart is a private institution not a citizen.

I don't know. I get the feeling I'm making a jerk out of myself, but being outspoken without knowing the situation fully. I invite you (and encourage you) to make fun of me.

[donald]

I don't know. I get the feeling I'm making a jerk out of myself, but being outspoken without knowing the situation fully. I invite you (and encourage you) to make fun of me.

You smell funny




That's all I could think of.



Personally I am not a fan of WalMart I think it is destroying US jobs and killing small businesses. Checkout http://azcr.org for more info on stuff like this.

[ShawnPhase]

exactly, and knowing that this is how they work makes me completely furious when i think about it more.

[Gaudustophe]

I don't know. I get the feeling I'm making a jerk out of myself, but being outspoken without knowing the situation fully. I invite you (and encourage you) to make fun of me.

You smell funny




That's all I could think of.



Personally I am not a fan of WalMart I think it is destroying US jobs and killing small businesses. Checkout http://azcr.org for more info on stuff like this.

Yeahhh. Hurts so good.

Thanks for that site. I need something like this, I always end up succumbing to behemoths like wal mart just for convenience or price, or ususally just becuase i assume there's no where else to go.

please don't waif me, wal mart.

[nathan]

why does it always smell so bad in Wal-Mart? Especially the Tempe location...

[glitterbot]

everyone who knows me knows I have been boycotting walmart for years. hate them!

[mikemfer]

please don't waif me, wal mart.

Ha ha ha, I remember that.

And before I say this, I'm not talking specifically to you here, Guadustophe.

Lots of people bitch about WalMart but then they go there because either they want to save a buck or they say it's the only place to go. The thing is, all the bitching in the world doesn't mean anything. You vote with your money. A dollar to WalMart is a vote for WalMart. So if you don't like WalMart don't vote for them.

There are some times when you will end up at WalMart even if you hate the damn place. I relish those opportunities to mock the store. Last time I went to WalMart was February 2004, and I made such a pest of myself that my fiancee/wife will no longer go with me or allow me to go with her (SCORE!) (Oh, and I've since convinced her not to shop there). In 10/2003 my brother and I were in a WalMart in Tucson buying beer, and we noticed the checker could ring up your order for the in store McDonalds. I thought about saying "Damn, you have the two worst jobs in the world all rolled into one: WalMart checker and McDonalds order taker", but the guy looked like he was on the verge of suicide already. Seriously, I actually felt so much pity for the guy that it brought my mood down several notches. The time before that was Christmas Eve 2001 and the store I was in had 6 lanes open out of 15 total. What the fuck? If there's a time to have more than 40% of your lanes open, it's the fucking day before Christmas!

Anyway, do the right thing and spend the extra money. You slam on your brakes to avoid hitting an animal crossing the road, even though that slows you down, right? Well, stay out of WalMart even though it will cost you a couple extra bucks- it's more humane.

[DoctorShumway]

I'm confused. Did Wal-Mart run an ad with a Nazi photo, or did the opposition? If Wal-Mart did, that's an incredibly huge fuck up on their part and they should know better. Besides, Wal-Mart is one of the biggest corporate censors around. What the hell do they know about the freedom of speech?

I think the only thing I have ever bought from Wal-Mart is a baseball glove many years ago. I had a conversation with my wife about them because she has never been to one/didn't really know what they were about. Basically I told her that they are a plague on society.

[Tony]

not to mention their music censorship policy. they are, unfortunately, one of the largest music retailers in the world. any music sold in the store is edited for content - which includes language and themes. a few years back, sheryl crow refused to change one of her songs for them (which happened to contain a line about children being able to buy guns at wal-mart) and they banned her music in all of their stores. so in effect, they have the ability to censor the music industry.

you can save money at target or costco. but to donald's point earlier, check out the AZCR website. there's some pretty solid arguments about how saving a dollar up front does a lot of harm in the long run.

also, the old people they hire as "greeters" tend to freak me out.

[raubhimself]

i hate walmart as much as anyone, but there are some things they sell (at at a reasonable price!) that i've never seen elsewhere. i try not to buy certain things there, every now and then i'll buy a videogame there if i don't have time to run all the way out to the mall. but then there is the 24-hours thing. where the hell else are you going to find packing tape and pudding snacks at 1AM!? come to think of it i go to walmart quite ofter, but 90% of the time i don't buy anything. it's a good time-waster, i guess.

fortunately they are building a target in between my house and walmart.

[mikemfer]

Raub, not to pick on you but that's the sort of thing I'm talking about. You don't chop off your own fingers and eat them just because you're hungry. Even though that would be really convenient, it's not worth the overall price you pay.

[raubhimself]

You don't chop off your own fingers and eat them just because you're hungry.

Too late

Wait, which part of my rambling post are you commenting on?