Here's a way to expose how toolish the Wal*Mart cart prank is.

Someone wrote to the Wal*Mart prankster-organizer about the immediate impact of the cart prank on the workers who'll have to hustle to put all the stuff back in addition to the other stuff they'll be doing, and all the guy had to say is this:

Remember it is WM management that poorly pays these people, not citizens who are fighting WM.

Basically he's like "well yeah I know that'll happen, but when it does at least it won't be my fault".

I wonder if you wrote the guy back and told him that Wal*Mart might go take the perishable food that's been sitting in the cart for a long time and put it back on the shelves spoiled, if he'd make a stupid excuse and try to blame someone else for that. That would give you an idea of how toolish the idea was and how it was promoted without regard to a lot of things.

that back onto the shelves, it would be obvious that it was ruined. I think it's a splendid idea myself.

This would also hurt workers as most of them get a bonus out of the profits and this would be cutting their income. One of the best ways I think is to call 1-800-Walmart and complain about their policies and the way the employees are treated.

End of rant.

Why not torch the place while you're at it? I mean if the ends justify the means why not?

I've worked there. They seldom gave you the required 10 minute break. I was very tired every day after work.

This prank was still wrong.

Make several hundred little leaflets -- the size of a business card will do -- listing websites critical of Wal-Mart, or to union organizing websites.

Go to Wal-Mart and strategically place them behind stock frontages. When the low-paid stock people have to tend the stocks, they'll find the leaflets. And read them.

You need not place five hundred at a time. Even four or five at a time will do. A few days after I placed a dozen, a friend of mine who worked at Wal-Mart showed me one of my own leaflets. She had found it and looked at the website.

With the smaller items, place the leaflet behind the spring-loaded mechanism that pushes the stock forward when a customer buys an item. You can cut hang-slots for some of the leaflets for use in the clothing department. It's easy to get to the backs of stock from empty adjacent stock areas, which are common in their pharmacy and hardware sections. Even dropping them on the floor, face-down, when nobody is looking, will guarantee that at least a few of the janitorial staff will see them.

While you're at it, check out your own attitudes of people who work at and shop at Wal-Mart. They're not "white trash"; most of them are working two or more jobs just to survive. Many of the managers realize this and try to accomadate their "associates", even as others are hard-assed and try to prove it to Bentonville every day.

Wal-Mart is America in microcosm. Let that image guide your efforts.

--p!

It will get the message across to the workers and consumers with-out making workers lives harder.

This "cart prank" has got to be one of the four or five sumbest ideas I've ever heard.

Wal-Mart's stuff doesn't belong to you until you buy it. Leave other people's property alone.

Redstone

and don't hide packages of fish in the clothing aisle either.