How do you feel about Wal-Mart?

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Registered: 07-04-2008
How do you feel about Wal-Mart?
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Wed, 11-26-2008 - 6:23pm

I read this op/ed (it's tied in with the automotive industry issues) http://www.indystar.com/article/20081119/OPINION12/811190304/1301/ARCHIVE the other day and it got me thinking. I've always heard about the lousy way they treat their employees but...it's their prices that keep me going back. Since I've moved to the South it's been even worse. They have Super Wal-Marts here where there is a grocery store in the Wal-Mart.

Now, there was an article the other day in my local newspaper with the mayor asking people to do their Christmas shopping downtown and buy local to support our mom & pop stores. Now, I'd love to do that but I have three kids and you know where I'm going.

Part of me really doesn't like what Wal-Mart stands for but the other part of me feels like "why should I pay more when I know I can get it cheaper there?"

Any thoughts?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 11-19-2008
Sat, 11-29-2008 - 7:28pm
And yet, Wal-Mart pays taxes, it's employees pay taxes, it's employees and suppliers provide revenue to the community and local businesses and Wal-Mart's low prices help the community in general. Sounds terrible.
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Registered: 11-20-2008
Sat, 11-29-2008 - 7:29pm
Twisting 'facts' doesn't make them true. You are free to believe what you like - obviously. And I am free to be thankful that Obama will be inaugurated next month and that I don't have to be satisfied with the world that you describe.
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Registered: 02-19-2008
Sat, 11-29-2008 - 7:29pm

Interpretation of facts varies with bias, also biased sites are known to distort facts.

Do you really believed a biased site is a good source for information?

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Registered: 08-13-2008
Sat, 11-29-2008 - 7:48pm

None of it equals the outflow out of the community. If you consider that a good thing, more power to you.


I don't.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-04-2008
Sat, 11-29-2008 - 8:23pm
That's good. From what I've heard it seems like it's been busy everywhere...I drove by our mall around 11:30 am yesterday and the parking lot looked absolutely full! I am really hoping for a good season for all the retail stores...the economy can use it!
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Registered: 07-04-2008
Sat, 11-29-2008 - 8:45pm

>>It said it tried to prepare for the crowd by adding staffers and outside security workers, putting up barricades and consulting police.<<

Which would've worked if there was, say, 200 not 2,000. They should've called the police instead of just consulting when the crowd grew that large. But, would've, should've, could've...I just hope they learned how to deal with this issue now.

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Registered: 08-20-2008
Sat, 11-29-2008 - 8:49pm

It's great to be able to go to Wal-Mart to buy a bunch of cheap stuff made almost exclusively by non-American workers in China sold by underpaid Americans without health care. Just like the last 8 years have been great under the Fox-Republican politicos. Wal-Mart is right in that nexus by the way - they cater to that crowd, play Fox in their stores, the zillionaire family supports the Republicans.

PS It takes an awful lot for a giant Republican corporation like Wal-Mart to be fined $10 million for engaging illegal immigrant labor under this inJustice Department. The real number for the fine probably should have been about 100X, or a billion, because that is what we get under this inJustice Department - 1% justice. It's so easy to trash this company. This is the company which discriminated against older workers who cost them more in health care by making them stand (no stools allowed) until they quit in pain. This is the company which advised its workers how to go out and apply for healthcare on the dole to avoid paying healthcare. This is the company which of course does not really get taken to task by the leader of the pack Rupert Murdoch scuzbucket media machine.

And is it all really necessary to abuse workers this way? Nope. Just ask Costco, which pays their workers a living wage and provides better healthcare coverage.

If I sound ticked by the way, it's because I am. And the American workers, including the ones who support the Fox Republican politicians, should be too. Pennywise, pound foolish.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Sat, 11-29-2008 - 9:00pm
Wal-mart also doesn't pay local tax either. Target in my area starts you at 8.00 an hour.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-19-2008
Sat, 11-29-2008 - 10:03pm
LOL! The WORL-DA will be HEE-YULL'D by the POW-WUR of the Obamessiah.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Sat, 11-29-2008 - 10:07pm
AMEN!
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