LTTE kicks Walmart butt !

From the St. Petersburg Times



http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/18/Opinion/We_must_take_a_stand_.shtml


Wal-Mart generosity is an illusion

Re: Wal-Mart pledges $5-million to hospital.

Is there no end to the white-washing and green-washing that Wal-Mart will stoop to? After what was reported about the corporate giant's supposed pledge of $5-million, all I can say is that All Children's Hospital should be more correctly renaming its emergency center the "People of West Central Florida Emergency Center."

The public is really making the donation possible. The corporate giant is not digging deep into its own profits to make a generous donation - it is simply organizing events in its parking lots to raise the money from the local shoppers who grace their doors.

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There is no truth to Wal-Mart's generosity. Rather than supporting communities, Wal-Mart doesn't buy American or offer good-paying jobs. Instead, it fights labor unions, keeps wages low, strong-arms its merchants to source products overseas more cheaply, and bulldozes its way into communities where it is not wanted.

This letter writer sums up, in the previous paragraph what a lot of us believe is the truth about walmart. What a wonderful letter!

I wish I had a CHOICE. They sell crap vcr's too. It's a long story, but I despise Wal Mart with a passion. It's like they are the ONLY place to buy some things in my hometown and you have to wade through "raffle ticket" sales from local "churches" that don't exist and other riff raff asking you to give money to them on the way in the door to boot. And I'm not talking about legitimate charities either. I'm talking about people setting up camp outside the local Wal Mart asking you to give money to so called charities that don't exist. After I take a few classes on researching the right way, I may just investigate and do a report on how many of those "charities" are real.

Luckly I don't have to,we have a Target about 2,000 feet north. I haven't darkened their door in over a year and don't intend to ever again. The closing of the union store in Canada really sealed the deal for me.

SCREW YOU Walmart......

over 100 miles to avoid them. Unfortunately. <grumbles under breath>

There a 2 supercenters within 20 minutes of each other here. Plus, there are proabaly a dozen supercenters within a 50 mile radius of my city. Not to mention the many abandoned Walmart sites. Fortunately, K-Mart is within walking distance (by sidewalk no less!) and a new Super target just opened.

Kmart (closed back at the end of the 90's) and no Target. I'd have to drive over 100 miles to see a Target store. Not to mention the fact that they are, as we speak, building a Wal Mart supercenter, supposedly the largest in the southeast, here. I'm doomed. Maybe not. I'm still plotting my escape from this tiny little half horse town one day. Must get education first and save along the way.

Walmart = urban sprawl of the worst kind. Move to a big city where there are no Walmarts. Don't move south if you won't to escape Walmart. They can't build them fast enough. The unwashed masses of RW fattie fundies love Walmart. Put a Home Depot, a Lowes and a Cracker Barrel restaurant next to one (like they have done here) and the masses will flock there.

Home Depot and Cracker Barrel are things we have heard of but apparently aren't populated enough or rich enough to have. I should become an author and write a book on what it is like to live in a blue county in a red state. We are THE most impoverished county in the state and have the least opportunities. The local college swears up and down they offer this curriculum and that, but they don't. Just trying to get an educatio n to make enough money to save up and move to a big city from a small town is next to impossible without selling drugs or something. I have to admit, I have at least considered that to get out of here before this place breaks my spirit. My tail isn't between my lets yet. I just realized something I should have seen a long time ago. I can shop on the internet some at least for electronics. Thanks to DU, my sluggish brain made the connection last night when I asked a question about vcr's being phased out. Hurray, DU. I love you people.

I know, because last week I had to kick out a teenager representing "Kids With Cancer" from the vestibule of the store on a cold, winter night. He wasn't affiliated with a Wal-mart approved charity so the store gave him the boot.

New York and the only big store around is a wal mart..but I order things through the mail that I want.

I will never go in a wal mart again.

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#7,8,9,and 10 are Waltons. Five million between them would be pocket change. They wouldn't even miss it.

they "slipped" but not much. S Robson Walton is #10, Jim and John are in 11th place and Helen and Alice are at #13. They are each separately worth over 18 billion.

And the lowly employees get treated like shit.

relationship with these charities.

When I was living in Montgomery Village, Maryland, WalMart opened a store in nearby Germantown. I had never been to WalMart before, and my brother said he would like to go, but found the store a little overwhelming (the narrow aisles and highly-stacked shelves bothered him). I told him I'd be happy to go with him.

Well, the din in that place was horrid. It was a ocean of clueless aisle-blockers, unruly, unattended children, and non-existent help. We did, however, end up buying a few items between us, but I had no desire to go back. My decision was reinforced as I learned of the shabby treatment of their associates, and that they in fact do not buy American.

Having a fear of WalMart is like having a fear of jumping off of a rocky cliff; it's a rather useful fear to have.

If any workers need a union, it is these "unique" Americans! What is the latest?

Sam Walton (from beyond the grave) preaches about the evils of unions.

I know that doesn't really matter in these times anyway.

No. They commit illegal acts until caught. I just saw a post about Walmart having to pay a fine for using illegal immigrant janitors. The fines are a drop in the bucket to them. Anyway, most Walmarts are in the South in "right to work states." Unions are likened to Communism down here.

During an organizing campaign, employers can express certain views ("we think unions are bad") but they have to be careful not to coerce workers or promise rewards for voting against the union, etc. So it would depend on what the video said and how it said it, whether it crosses the line between free speech and interference with workers' rights to organize.

in order to get a job at any Wal Mart, you have to sign a pledge (mixed in with your paperwork) PROMISING you will not organize or help anyone who is trying to organize any unions. It specifically refers to labor unions in that section. I know. I once had a Wal-job, you know, like McJob... I hated it then too. I miss Roses.

Get some of those bloody posters that the Anti-Choice crowd uses to picket Planned Parenthood, and use them to picket Wally World.
I’m absolutely PRO-CHOICE, but think the Fundies need to face this hypocrisy.




Will the Republicans stand on Moral Values when their wallet is threatened?
Only immoral people (Communist abortion lovers) shop at Wal-Mart!