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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 12:57:51 PM

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I like the effect you're going for, DG, but for a crowd already conditioned to seeing bums playing pocket pool at the parking lot entrance, I don't think you'll get the shock value you want. Have you considered buttfucking a squealer or loud moaner in the restroom at Whole Foods? Those are some people you can startle.

Point taken. Sodomizing some hippiesque Whole Food chick with an organic squash, now that just might create the desired effect.

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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 12:59:36 PM

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Wal is for Walton, as in Sam Walton, the founder

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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 1:02:44 PM

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Yeah they are a fine upstanding company, a good business model especially for keeping the Third World alive and well.

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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 1:03:48 PM

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The founder was Sam Walton. The Wal part seems pretty obvious, too. Why? What have you heard?

I hear a lot of things but what do you think I've heard that concerns you so much that you need to know what in particular I've heard.

Sam Walton, the one played by Will Geer?

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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 1:06:14 PM

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Walmart does seem to attract the Bold and the Beautiful. I have been kicking around a "Women of Walmart" calender.

It would not be for the faint of heart. Pretty graphic shit. Miss March has chili stains on her sweat shirt and is sporting a spectacular case of camel toe.

Primo wacking stuff.

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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 1:09:15 PM

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Have you considered buttfucking a squealer or loud moaner in the restroom at Whole Foods? Those are some people you can startle.

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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 3:41:24 PM

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I like the effect you're going for, DG, but for a crowd already conditioned to seeing bums playing pocket pool at the parking lot entrance, I don't think you'll get the shock value you want. Have you considered buttfucking a squealer or loud moaner in the restroom at Whole Foods? Those are some people you can startle.

Point taken. Sodomizing some hippiesque Whole Food chick with an organic squash, now that just might create the desired effect.

the place to do it would be the Whole Foods in Princeton New Jersey, as alot of the Princeton University little hunnies shop at Whole Foods...Domi, remind me to tell you about some of the shit me and my crew used to pull at the Princeton U. bars

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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 5:52:12 PM

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Hey I am cheap and buy my TP, fish food, laundry detergent, etc. at Walmart. It's on the way home from work. Easy in and easy out.

Besides, the only alternatives are other chains. What's the difference really?

Perzakly.

Why does everyone hate WalMart?

I make a fairly reasonable amount of money...vastly more than would require shopping at WalMart.

Why the hell would I pay $127.95 for something at SEARS (or $137.38 at Target)...when I could have the exact same thing for $82.79 from WalMart?

It's the same manufacturer (from China, or Singapore...or Uganda) as from every other store (and no...you can't get it made here)...so what the fuck do I care?

(And by the way...whether you personally buy from them or not....the overwhelming buying public is choosing to buy from WalMart....so...WTF???????).

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WalMart started out as a single store....every business dreams of growing larger....WalMart succeeded.

They did "business" better than anyone else, by focusing on their customers interests.

As a business...you would want to do exactly that...grow by making your customers happy.

They did.

Kinda seems like the American dream to me.

And by the way....when I have 5 construction jobs advertised in a local paper...at $25.00 an hour, full medical, matching retirement....I'll typically get 30 applicants.

When WalMart advertises a new store opening....for $10.00 an hour jobs...they get people lined up completely around the building.....3 days prior to the opening....

You tell me why?

(I for one...love WalMart...and frankly....for a company that is focusing on green initiatives, saving (me) money and putting so many things in one place for me to shop (with less driving)......

I'm a fan.

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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 5:56:43 PM

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It's the same manufacturer (from China, or Singapore...or Uganda) as from every other store (and no...you can't get it made here)...so what the fuck do I care?

(And by the way...whether you personally buy from them or not....the overwhelming buying public is choosing to buy from WalMart....so...WTF????????)

EXACTLY! Ha ha ha too bad it is too freaking sad in the reality of this point of view.

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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 6:21:03 PM

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Tigresse, I'm letting my personal dislike of the woman get in the way of my better judgement. Sorry if I offended you: it certainly wasn't my goal to judge everybody that shops in those stores in a negative light. I do, however, judge the Wal-Mart corporation for what it is: a basically evil organisation that people deserve to know about. After that... it's up to them.

Kittin, you couldn't offend me. I think all big corporations have some level of evil. I just do my thing, buy what I need and that's about it.

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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 6:38:50 PM

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I've recently become a bit of a Walmart slut. I had never shopped in one before I moved this past summer. There's a Walmart nearby so I figured I'd check it out. I have since found tons of good buys there from electronics to home repair to clothing and on and on. The Walmart by me is super huge, tons of variety in every department, it's super clean, super organized and the prices are really good. The employees (from the floor help to the cashiers) all look very happy to me, they're very friendly, always smiling, asking you if you need help etc.

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RE: walmart story - 3/28/2009 7:53:07 PM

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The employees (from the floor help to the cashiers) all look very happy to me, they're very friendly, always smiling, asking you if you need help etc.

These employees are remotely controlled and made in China: super efficient, super friendly, and very, VERY good value. They just have short warranties, and need to be replaced often.

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RE: walmart story - 3/29/2009 11:29:57 AM

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http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A25541

n 2003, Head reports, the Korean owner of a plant in Pago Pago supplying garments to Wal-Mart was convicted of human trafficking and of holding more than 200 Vietnamese workers under "conditions of involuntary servitude." The National Labor Committee has found that Wal-Mart suppliers in China, Bangladesh and Central America routinely withhold employees' wages, enforce unpaid overtime, ignore restrictions on working hours, and deny employees health care and maternity benefits.

Wal-Mart is far worse in this regard than other retailers. In 2004, the National Labor Committee found that 90 percent of Bangladesh's garment manufacturers violated their female employees' right to maternity leave. A number of manufacturers—including Liz Claiborne, Costco, the Gap, Levi Strauss and Sears—pledged that any woman in Bangladesh sewing their garments must be guaranteed her legal right to maternity leave. Wal-Mart gave no such pledge.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061016/wal_mart

While Wal-Mart's consumer benefits are clearly overrated, it's hard to dispute that the company sells a lot of cheap stuff. The question, then, is at what price? Slavery kept cotton prices low in the United States for centuries and saved consumers countless dollars. But it was wrong. Likewise, Wal-Mart's strategy of keeping costs down by exploiting sweatshop suppliers abroad while undermining unions and paying less than living wages in this country should be deemed unacceptable in the twenty-first century.

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